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December 27, 2018 | Bleeping Computer, Ionut Ilascu
New Shamoon Sample from France Signed with Baidu Certificate
A new sample of Shamoon disk-wiping malware was uploaded from France recently to the VirusTotal scanning platform. It tries to pass as a system optimization tool from Chinese technology company Baidu. This new Shamoon variant was uploaded on December 23, 2018, and is signed with a digital certificate from Baidu, issued on...
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December 18, 2018 | WIRED, Lily Hay Newman
The Iran Hacks Cybersecurity Experts Feared May Be Here
In May, President Donald Trump announced that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement, negotiated by the Obama Administration, designed to keep Iran from developing or acquiring nuclear weapons. As part of that reversal, the Trump administration reimposed economic sanctions on Iran. From the start, the US...
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December 17, 2018 | Security Week, Eduard Kovacs
Shamoon 3 Attacks Targeted Several Sectors
New details have emerged about the recent Shamoon 3 attacks, including information on several malware samples, targets in additional sectors, and some links to threat groups believed to be operating out of Iran. Several new samples of the notorious Shamoon malware emerged recently. While initially, researchers could not say...
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December 17, 2018 | Expand Your Knowledge, Pierluigi Paganini
A Second Sample of the Shamoon Wiper was Uploaded to Virus Total
Last week security experts at Chronicle announced the discovery of a new variant of the infamous Shamoon malware, the sample was uploaded to Virus Total from Italy at around the time Italian oil services company Saipem announced to have suffered a cyber attack. Over 300 of the servers...
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December 17, 2018 | Security Affairs, Pierluigi Paganini
A Second Sample of the Shamoon V3 Wiper Analyzed by the Experts
Last week security experts at Chronicle announced the discovery of a new variant of the infamous Shamoon malware, the sample was uploaded to Virus Total from Italy at around the time Italian oil services company Saipem announced to have suffered a cyber attack. Over 300 of the servers...
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December 17, 2018 | Bleeping Computer, Ionut Ilascu
Shamoon Disk Wiper Returns with Second Sample Uncovered this Month
Shamoon's comeback early last week was not marked by one, but two occurrences of the data-wiping malware. The second sighting observed a different sample that could indicate a follow-up to the initial attack. The first report named Italy as the origin for the sample upload to VirusTotal, while a...
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December 6, 2018 | TEISS, Payton Bush
Sharing Intel: Joining Your Threat Intelligence Community
As threat intelligence becomes more ubiquitous, many organisations are discovering that sharing threat intelligence information is powerful in combating cyber-attacks. Sharing is one of the earliest lessons we learn in life, but – understandably – not the foremost on our minds when it comes to cyber-security. Sharing your toys as...
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October 18, 2018 | WSB-TV
Your personal information is for sale on the dark web
This may surprise you: Georgia voter roll data is for sale on a secret online forum for hackers and criminals. Channel 2’s Justin Gray learned that on a dark web hacking forum, $250 will buy you voter roll information on all the voters in the state of Georgia....
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October 17, 2018 | Tripwire, Maritza Santillan
35 Million US Voter Registration Records Found for Sale on Dark Web
Weeks before the November midterm elections, roughly 35 million U.S. voter registration records from 19 states have appeared for sale on the dark web. Researchers from Anomali Labs and Intel 471 discovered the data for sale, which reportedly includes voters’ “full name, phone numbers, physical addresses, voting history, and...
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October 17, 2018 | Forbes, Lee Mathews
Millions of Voter Records Are For Sale On Hacker Forums
There are just under three weeks until the 2018 midterm elections. It's not great timing, then, to learn that a user on a hacking forum is selling voter data on millions of Americans. The timing couldn't be worse. As election day approaches candidates continue to ramp up their...
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