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Exposed: New toolset of the Sofacy cyber-espionage group

07

Dec

2015

Kaspersky Lab has spotted new attacks by the Sofacy group which make use of several upgraded techniques designed for aggressive persistence and greater invisibility of malicious activity in the attacked system. Sofacy (also known as “Fancy Bear,” “Sednit,” “STRONTIUM” and “APT28”) is a Russian-speaking advanced threat group that has been active since at least 2008, […]

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Many embedded devices ship without adequate security tests, analysis shows

23

Nov

2015

An analysis of hundreds of publicly available firmware images for routers, DSL modems, VoIP phones, IP cameras and other embedded devices uncovered high-risk vulnerabilities in a significant number of them, pointing to poor security testing by manufacturers. The study was performed by researchers from the Eurecom research center in France and Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany, […]

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Tor alleges FBI paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to hack hidden services

13

Nov

2015

The Tor Project is alleging that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) paid Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers $1 million to attack Tor’s hidden services last year. The attack appears to have indiscriminately targeted several users at once and not just those suspected of criminal activity, Tor said in a Nov. 11 post adding there […]

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