Tag Archives: cyber hacking

So what are these horrendous people being charged with? Stealing unreleased scripts of Game of Thrones and a bunch of academic articles. I am not making this up. Marginal RevolutionIranian “CyberAttack” Threatens Elsevier Not USAAlex Tabarrok | Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center and Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a research fellow with the Mercatus Center

A little wonkish for general reading, but a good backgrounder if you are following this, or if you just want to get up to speed on it. It shows just how endemic cyber hacking, cyber espionage and cyber warfare is, and how difficult it is to determine who is doing what to whom in the cyberworld, since "everyone is doing it." Even Mossad is involved in this one. Kaspersky has the reputation of being the best in providing security, but Mossad hacked them.Ars TechnicaKaspersky: Yes, we obtained...

The equivalent of Photoshop in cyberspace? WikiLeaks says it has published the source code for the CIA hacking tool ‘Hive,’ which indicates that the agency-operated malware could mask itself under fake certificates and impersonate public companies, namely Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab.The CIA multi-platform hacking suite ‘Hive’ was able to impersonate existing entities to conceal suspicious traffic from the user being spied on, the source code of the malicious program indicates,...

Despite early reports that there was no use of National Security Agency-developed exploits in this week's crypto-ransomware outbreak, research released by Cisco Talos suggests that the ransomware worm known as "Bad Rabbit" did in fact use a stolen Equation Group exploit revealed by Shadowbrokers to spread across victims' networks. The attackers used EternalRomance, an exploit that bypasses security over Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing connections, enabling remote execution of...