Silobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 23 March 2014
Confusion over Brussels IS suspectsThere still remains a great deal of confusion regarding the men involved in the Brussels bombings [1] that have killed 31 and wounded 260. Brothers Ibrahim and Khalid...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 24 March 2016
Operation C-Major [1]Trend Micro have discovered a data theft campaign targeting Indian military personnel, for which Pakistani actors may be responsible.Trend Micro found that the attack, dubbed...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 29 March 2016
Petya Ransomware [1]Petya is one of several new ransomware variants that have appeared over the past week or so. It was first thought to be a locker rather than an encryptor (the former 'locks' your...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 30 March 2016
Bears Inc & TreasureHuntAs the United States switches from swipe to chip-based card technology, point-of-sale (POS) [1] malware authors are doing their best to make bank before it's too late. New...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 31 March 2016
Remaiten [1]ESET report that malware authors have merged the capabilities of Kaiten/Tsunami and Gafgyt to create a hybrid known as Remaiten, a.k.a. KTN-Remastered or Kaiten Remastered.In a handover...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 1 April 2016
SideStepper Vulnerability [1]Check Point have issued a report on an iOS vulnerability they call 'SideStepper', which could leverage mobile device management to spread malware.A rash of certificate...
View Article30 Day Cyber Summary – March 2016
Our 30 Day Cyber Summary reports a selection of the top trending stories in cyber security from the last calendar month. Keep up to date with some of the most prominent and strongly emerging malware,...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 4 April 2016
CryptoHasYou Ransomware [1]Though a specific attack vector is yet to be reported for this new and relatively unremarkable ransomware, it's known to use AES256 to encrypt data followed by RSA2048 to...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 5 April 2016
Hacker groups conflict over Nagorno-KarabakhWhile Armenian and Azerbaijani forces continue to clash in the Nagorno-Karabakh [1] region, another battle is taking place on the net. At least two groups of...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 6 April 2016
Adobe will issue critical patchAdobe are set to issue an urgent Flash Player [1] patch within the next few days for a critical vulnerability being actively exploited in the wild. CVE-2016-1019 affects...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 7 April 2016
Philippine voter database leak (update)The voter database belonging to the Philippine's Commission on Elections (COMELEC) that was posted online contains both encrypted and plain-text information, so a...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 8 April 2016
IS hackers return to TelegramThe Cyber Caliphate Army [1] (CCA) has merged with several other IS aligned hacker groups to re-establish its presence on the Telegram messaging app, MEMRI reports. The...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 11 April 2016
CryptoHost/Manamecrypt [1]CryptoHost deploys a new and (thankfully) inefficient ransom tactic. Instead of encrypting individual files from a set of types, the ransomware moves these files to RAR...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 12 April 2016
Russian government & banks concerned over BuhtrapA spokesman for the first deputy chairman of the Russian central bank has spoken to SC Magazine about the Buhtrap group [1], who have carried out 13...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 13 April 2016
Sweden allegedly reported cyber attack to NATO last NovemberOn November 4th 2015, air traffic control systems in Sweden were knocked out, displaying blank screens to operators. Aircraft had to be...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 14 April 2016
Two year jail term for aiding in website defacementSocial media editor Matthew Keys [1] has been sentenced to two years in prison for giving his login information to members of Anonymous group [2] in...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 15 April 2016
RIP Quicktime (for Windows)TrendMicro has discovered two critical vulnerabilities in Quicktime [1] for Windows. US-CERT has issued an alert [2], noting the the only effective mitigation technique is to...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 18 April 2016
The Hacking Team breach exposéPhineas Fisher [1] has published an account [2] of how the 2015 breach of Hacking Team [3] (HT) took place. Previously known for leaking data taken from Gamma...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 19 April 2016
CryptXXX RansomwareProofpoint [1] believe that the group tied to Reveton [2] are distributing a new ransomware dubbed CryptXXX [3] via the Bedep trojan [4] and Angler exploit kit.CryptXXX will scan for...
View ArticleSilobreaker Daily Cyber Digest – 20 April 2016
Four Element Sword malcodeExperts at Arbor Networks believe they've discovered a malicious file builder used in targeted attacks against East Asian organisations. Named Four Element Sword [1] by...
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