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Google.ro and other RO domains, victims of a possible DNS hijacking attack

28

Nov

2012

Earlier today, Softpedia reported that an Algerian hacker using the nickname MCA-CRB has managed to deface the Romanian sites of Google (google.ro) and Yahoo! (yahoo.ro). Screenshot of the defaced Google.ro domainWhen we found out about this incident we were pretty skeptical of these websites being hacked. A website as large as Google can be hacked, […]

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Stealing currency permits from the Government

12

Oct

2012

Right after the Venezuelan presidential elections cybercriminals launched a new credential stealing malware joined by a social engineering campaign saying that supposedly the last election was a fraud. The name of the malicious file is “listas-fraude-electoral.pdf.exe” which is translates to “Fraud elections lists” and it spread via a fake Globovision Venezuelan news TV station. The […]

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Shamoon The Wiper: further details (Part II)

11

Sep

2012

There have been persistent media reports that the Shamoon wiper malware we previously covered is linked to attacks against Saudi Aramco.The hardcoded date in the body of destructor matches exactly the declaration by a hacker group about the date and time when the Saudi Aramco company would had been hit but we still cannot definitively […]

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