cyberespionage, doxing, hacking, iran, leaks, Security technology
The source code of a set of Iranian cyberespionage tools was leaked online. Powered by WPeMatico
Month: April 2019
dns, espionage, hacking, maninthemiddleattacks, Security technology
DNS hijacking isn’t new, but this seems to be an attack of unprecedented scale: Researchers at Cisco’s Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it’s calling Sea Turtle carried out a broad campaign of espionage via DNS hijacking, hitting 40 different organizations. In the process, they went so far as to compromise … Read More “New DNS Hijacking Attacks” »
cybersecurity, infrastructure, internetofthings, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology
Presidential candidate John Delaney has announced a plan to create a Department of Cybersecurity. I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with Internet — and especially Internet of Things — security. The devil is in the details, of course, and it’s really easy to get this wrong. In Click … Read More “A “Department of Cybersecurity”” »
attribution, cybersecurity, infrastructure, malware, Security technology
FireEye is releasing much more information about the Triton malware that attacks critical infrastructure. It has been discovered in more places. This is also a good — but older — article on Triton. We don’t know who wrote it. Initial speculation was Iran; more recent speculation is Russia. Both are still speculations. Fireeye report. BoingBoing … Read More “More on the Triton Malware” »
academicpapers, certifications, protocols, Security technology, vulnerabilities, wifi
Researchers have found several vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi security protocol: The design flaws we discovered can be divided in two categories. The first category consists of downgrade attacks against WPA3-capable devices, and the second category consists of weaknesses in the Dragonfly handshake of WPA3, which in the Wi-Fi standard is better known as the … Read More “Vulnerabilities in the WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Protocol” »
backdoors, china, espionage, nationalsecuritypolicy, Security technology, supplychain
Supply chain security is an insurmountably hard problem. The recent focus is on Chinese 5G equipment, but the problem is much broader. This opinion piece looks at undersea communications cables: But now the Chinese conglomerate Huawei Technologies, the leading firm working to deliver 5G telephony networks globally, has gone to sea. Under its Huawei Marine … Read More “China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables” »
Security technology, squid
Interesting. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Powered by WPeMatico
academicpapers, cryptography, hacking, machinelearning, medicine, Security technology, tamperdetection
In what I am sure is only a first in many similar demonstrations, researchers are able to add or remove cancer signs from CT scans. The results easily fool radiologists. I don’t think the medical device industry has thought at all about data integrity and authentication issues. In a world where sensor data of all … Read More “Maliciously Tampering with Medical Imagery” »
espionage, kaspersky, malware, nsa, Security technology, stuxnet
Flame was discovered in 2012, linked to Stuxnet, and believed to be American in origin. It has recently been linked to more modern malware through new analysis tools that find linkages between different software. Seems that Flame did not disappear after it was discovered, as was previously thought. (Its controllers used a kill switch to … Read More “New Version of Flame Malware Discovered” »
kaspersky, malware, Security technology, spyware
Kaspersky has released details about a sophisticated nation-state spyware it calls TajMahal: The TajMahal framework’s 80 modules, Shulmin says, comprise not only the typical keylogging and screengrabbing features of spyware, but also never-before-seen and obscure tricks. It can intercept documents in a printer queue, and keep track of “files of interest,” automatically stealing them if … Read More “TajMahal Spyware” »