FireEye said on Saturday that it recently detected a highly targeted attack exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in an effort to compromise an “international government entity” in an industry vertical that aligns with known targets hit by a threat actor group which FireEye calls APT28. Link: Russia-linked Hackers Used Two Zero-Days in Recent Targeted Attack: FireEye
When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. Link: FBI watched as hacker dumped Bell Canada passwords online
Oracle warned that a dozen of new Java security vulnerabilities could be exploitable remotely to gain access to a target application without login. Link: Java – New vulnerabilities affects million applications
Hackers no longer are the lone wolves that many of us imagine, operating solo in secrecy to launch tiny, far-fetched phishing schemes that only the most naive of us would fall. Today’s cyber criminals work together in highly sophisticated, organized and often well-funded networks. Link: How To Deter Cyber Criminals? “Good Guys” Will Share Data …
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Citizen Lab has issued a report on China’s “Great Cannon” attack tool, used in the recent DDoS attack against GitHub. Link: China’s Great Cannon
