If you’re wondering if they need to be so paranoid, you might recall a story from back in 2013 in which researchers discovered it was possible to hack a Mac’s iSight camera, disable the LED indicator, and spy on the user without them knowing …
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Sony hack: British university trained North Korean elite in computer security
Telegraph.co.uk Sony hack: British university trained North Korean elite in computer security. Westminster University provided bursaries worth £28,000 to teach computer skills to North Korea's top students. Westminster University said the scheme was intended to … Westminster University pays North Korean students £56k to learn computer … |
Researchers from Russia-based Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a gang of hackers for hire who specialize in surgical strikes that quickly infiltrate suppliers to Western companies, steal highly sensitive data, and then vanish.
Icefog, as the group of “cyber mercenaries” has been dubbed, is made up of six to 10 members who are able to infect both Windows and Mac computers with advanced malware that’s extremely hard to detect, Kaspersky researchers revealed in a report published Wednesday.
That’s a tiny membership compared with other gangs engaged in advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks that siphon gigabytes or even terabytes of sensitive data out of corporations, defense contractors, and government agencies. The so-called APT1 group that hacked The New York Times nine months ago, for instance, has as many as 100 members, a roster that leaves plenty of tracks for security defenders to find.
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Black Budget: NSA's Team of Elite Hackers Tasked with 'Sabotage'
Infosecurity Magazine This jives with conventional wisdom surrounding Stuxnet and Flame, the malware that was reportedly jointly developed by the US and Israel to target Iran's nuclear program. It's not all hacking and cyber-warfare though. Notably, the fiscal earmarking … |
