Tag Archives: cyber attack

Android malware said to be targeting Indian politicians

Posted on May 4, 2013 by Prashant
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Android as of now has gain popularity much more than desired by its creator! Anything that has popularity and relays on internet for major function, becomes an easy target for cyber crooks. Though security loopholes have been updated and brought … Continue reading →

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APTs and the Red Dragon

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Prashant
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Yesterday following a tweet, I came across a newly published report pointing towards the involvement of the Chinese government and its People’s Liberation Army (PLA) involvement in some long time cyber espionage carried out in the past. A leading security … Continue reading →

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Cover Story : Internet Explorer zero day used in CFR cyber espionage

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Prashant

First of all, Happy New Year to our all readers! The past year witnessed major cyber attacks, that later turned out to be some state sponsored cyber attacks. An example of one such state sponsored attack was the Russians attacking … Continue reading →

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Quick utilities for malware analysis

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Prashant

Usually we carry out the analysis of malware under virtual environment or using sandbox. Malware analysis is quite helpful in detecting malicious file as well as the behavior and the attack vectors being used in the file. It’s dangerous to … Continue reading →

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Cyber espionage campagin target Israel and Iran

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Prashant

The middle east has become a main frame targets of various cyber espionage. Be it Stuxnet, Flame or Duqu, nothing has left untouched the middle east people. In a joint work of Kasper Lab and Securelet, security researchers have discovered … Continue reading →

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Chinese hackers strike at Indian Navy computers

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Prashant

Chinese hackers have always strike at Indian cyber boundaries, be it PMO attack or other sensitive government authority. At this time they have managed to broke into the computers of Indian Navy. They were successful in penetrating computers at Eastern … Continue reading →

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Flame and Suxnet interconncted?

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Prashant

Flame and Stuxnet, the two famous malwares showed growing examples of how artifical life is being deployed in cyber warfare. The two malwares, hard-coded to accomplish the mission, affected the middle-easter countries and also Iran as a main target. The … Continue reading →

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6.5 million hashed passwords of LinkedIn leaked

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Prashant

LinkedIn is one of the widely used professional networking website. A LinkedIn profile is seen as a status of symbol between employes as well as employers. According to a post at Norwegian website Dagens, around 6.5 million encrypted LinkedIn passwords … Continue reading →

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Stuxnet, Duqu and now Flame!

Posted on May 29, 2012 by Prashant

Malware and artificial life have become an important weapons in the cyber warfare. In the past we have seen how Stuxnet and Duqu were silently causing damage to their targets assigned. Where Stuxnet made fatal attack and caused heavy damage … Continue reading →

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ISP Reliance pwned by Anonymous

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Prashant

Indian ISP Reliance was targeted by hacktivist group Anonymous under the Operation India movement of the group. The movement was started to protest against growing corruption and internet censorship in India. The hacktivist group seemed to hack into the server … Continue reading →

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