Hacktivism is seeing a resurgence recently, in no small part fueled by the arrest of Julian Assange. #Op hashtags for the UK, Sweden, and Ecuador signal the intent of the attackers. #Anonymous #FreeAssange #OpEcuador #OpAssange #OpSweden #OpUK #OpUS @your_anon_net @LorianSynaro and @Pryzraky took #Offline UK Police website. Sweden its also our target! You will be…
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Source code of Iranian cyber-espionage tools leaked on Telegram
Hell hath no fury like a vengeful insider, Wednesday edition. Catalin Cimpanu reports: In an incident reminiscent of the Shadow Brokers leak that exposed the NSA’s hacking tools, someone has now published similar hacking tools belonging to one of Iran’s elite cyber-espionage units, known as APT34, Oilrig, or HelixKitten. The hacking tools are nowhere near…
Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Ukraine Government and Military; Infrastructure Reveals Potential Link to So-Called Luhansk People’s Republic
John Hultquist, Ben Read, Oleg Bondarenko, and Chi-en Shen of FireEye explain: In early 2019, FireEye Threat Intelligence identified a spear phishing email targeting government entities in Ukraine. The spear phishing email included a malicious LNK file with PowerShell script to download the second-stage payload from the command and control (C&C) server. The email was…
Ca: Personal information safe after cyber-attack: Stratford city hall officials
Terry Bridge reports: Stratford city hall was the target of an apparent cyber-attack, but officials do not believe personal information was compromised. The city first acknowledged the incident in a Sunday night in a Facebook post. Stratford Mayor Dan Mathieson said Monday the city has determined it was a ransomware attack, but IT staff “found…
UT: Ransomware attack hits Garfield County, shutting off its computer access for weeks
Ben Winslow reports: A ransomware attack hit Garfield County’s computer systems, crippling them for weeks before they were able to pay to get access to their own data, officials confirmed to FOX 13. “All of our data had been taken,” Garfield County Attorney Barry Huntington said of the recent data breach. Someone clicked on a…
Hackers publish personal data on thousands of US police officers and federal agents
Zack Whittaker reports: A hacker group has breached several FBI-affiliated websites and uploaded their contents to the web, including dozens of files containing the personal information of thousands of federal agents and law enforcement officers, TechCrunch has learned. The hackers breached three sites associated with the FBI National Academy Association, a coalition of different chapters…