A previously unknown hacking group called Strider has been conducting cyber espionage against selected targets in Belgium, China, Russia and Sweden, according to Symantec. The security firm suggested that the product of the espionage would be of interest to a nation state’s intelligence services. Strider uses malware known as Remsec that appears primarily to have…
National attention is focused on Russian eavesdroppers’ possible targeting of U.S. presidential candidates and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Yet, leaked top-secret National Security Agency documents show that the Obama administration has long been involved in major bugging operations against the election campaigns — and the presidents — of even its closest allies. The United…
On Saturday, Tass reported what looks like Washington’s dirty handiwork, perhaps complicit with NATO and Israel, saying: Russia’s “Federal Security Service (FSB) revealed virus software for cyber-spying in computer networks of about 20 organizations located in Russia.” The attack targeted “information resources of the state authorities, scientific and defense companies, enterprises of the defense industry…
A team of researchers claim they’ve developed malware that can extract data from an isolated computer with no internet connection, camera or audio hardware—all by using sounds generated by the machine’s processor and cooling fans. In a new paper, researchers at Israel’s Ben Gurion University describe an attack meant to be used against isolated or…
Did you know that your Facebook mobile app has complete access to your phone’s microphone? Recently, an expert has come out to claim that Facebook may be listening in on your conversations. Kelli Burns, a mass communication professor at the University of South Florida, believes the app might be using people’s microphones to gather data…
Former insiders and whistle-blowers provide a view of the formidable military intelligence outfit Unit 8200 of the IDF is Israel’s version of the NSA; but more than that, it is home to many of the worst cyber terrorists and cyber criminals the world has ever seen, people who have caused destruction on a massive scale…
