Tag Archive for: Attack

PandaLabs Reports Massive Phishing Attack Uses iTunes as A Lure to Steal Bank Details – Newswiretoday.com

NewswireToday – /newswire/ – Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain, 10/05/2010 – Apple’s popular service, with millions of users transmitting bank details on the platform every day, has become a target for hackers looking for confidential bank data . – The email is a f
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Factbox: Implications of apparent Stuxnet Iran cyber attack – Reuters

LONDON (Reuters) – An apparent cyber attack on Iran shows the vulnerability of critical national infrastructure systems to attack through widely used computer programs and imported technology. Iranian officials said Sunday that the Stuxnet worm had …
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U.S. Power Plants at Risk of Attack by Computer Virus – Berkeley Voice

WASHINGTON — A sophisticated worm designed to infiltrate industrial control systems could be used as a blueprint to sabotage machines that are critical to U.S. power plants, electrical grids and other infrastructure, experts are warning. The discovery of …
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Iran ‘detains western spies’ after cyber attack on nuclear plant (Peter Beaumont/Guardian)

Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Iran ‘detains western spies’ after cyber attack on nuclear plant  —  Iranian government accuses the west of launching an ‘electronic war’ following sophisticated Stuxnet worm attack  —  Iran has detained several “spies” it claims were behind cyber attacks on its nuclear programme.

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