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Companies on Watch After US, Iran Claim Cyberattacks

Jun

2019

With tensions ratcheting up in the Middle East — and both the US and Iran claiming to have begun offensive cyber operations — critical infrastructure companies and firms with links to the region need to take a heightened security posture, cyberattack and cyber espionage experts say. In the past, Iran’s cyber operators and proxies have […]

Shamoon The Wiper: further details (Part II)

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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Complex Cyber Espionage Malware Discovered: Meet W32.Gauss

Aug

2012

Kaspersky Lab has discovered complex espionage malware named Gauss which steals a broad set of data from compromised computers and sends it to command-and-control servers.Symantec currently detects this latest threat as W32.Gauss and preliminary reports suggest the highest concentrations of W32.Gauss appear in the Middle East. Gauss is similar in design and function to W32.Flamer: Modular […]

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