Iran Expands Oil & Gas Attacks to Electric as Well According to researchers, Iran linked APT33 has expanded its attack surface. Initially they were going after the global oil and gas industry but now they have added the electric grid to the mix. Right now, they say, the goal is reconnaissance – gathering information to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Albany Int’l Airport Hit By Ransomware via MSP In what is becoming an all too common story, the Managed Service Provider that supported Albany, NY’s airport, Logical Net of Schenectady, NY, was hacked and from there, the hackers were able to connect to the airports administrative network and infect it with REvil ransomware, the same […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security’s newly named agency – the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive to executive branch agencies – many of which have personnel on furlough – regarding a DNS hijacking issue. The issue is not limited to agencies and every company and private individual that owns one or more Internet domains […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting in mid November, someone, possibly Iran, wiped many computers at a number of Saudi government agencies, including the Saudi Civil Aviation Agency . A total of 6 agencies were attacked; 4 were compromised; 2 agencies repelled the attack. The attack was made to look identical to an attack attributed to Iran in 2012 where […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Gene Kaspersky, head of the Russian anti-malware vendor and security research labs reported yesterday that the malware that infected his labs last year was also found … drum roll … at the hotels for the delegates to the Iranian nuclear talks (see article). Kaspersky reported yesterday (see article) that their lab was the victim of […]
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