Iran launches organized cyberattack against U.S. banks

The banks of JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America are being increasingly targeted this week, in a systematic denial-of-service (DoS) attack against their websites. National security officials told NBC News that the cyber attacks are originating from the government of Iran and as a result, the cyber threat level was raised from “elevated” to…

If you run Sophos Antivirus and have it set to nuke malicious files upon detection, you may no longer have automatic updates. Sophos recently pushed an update that created a pretty funny false positive. Sophos Antivirus mistakenly detected its own automatic updater as malware.

According to ComputerWorld, attackers have begun exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. The vulnerability allows hackers to hijack Windows PCs that browse to malicious or compromised websites.

Symantec has provided details on an attack system known as The Elderwood Project that appears to be sponsored by the Chinese military complex. The first instance of this attack vector occurred in 2009 when Google computers were comprised by a group using a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer. it was determined that the group was…

Visitors to Al Jazeera’s website got a surprise overnight. Hackers replaced Al Jazeera’s home page with a message saying it was done in protest against the Doha-based television station’s coverage of the Syrian conflict. The attack lasted for several hours during which visitors were served a page with a Syrian flag and a message explaining…

Antisec (hacking group) is at it again and this time they’ve surprised us with an example of how lax the United States’ security policies have become. Antisec managed to hack an FBI agent’s Dell laptop computer. Utilizing a shell session, the hacker(s) noticed a file sitting on the FBI agent’s desktop that look interesting. They…

On Wednesday, April 18, at approximately 16:00 Eastern Time, U.S. Federal authorities removed a server from a colocation facility shared by Riseup Networks and May First/People Link in New York City. The seized server was operated by the European Counter Network (â€œECNâ€), the oldest independent internet service provider in Europe, who, among many other things,…

DDOS man in the middle hacking hacker attack

Organizers of the so-called Operation Payback today asked for and appear to have received additional bots from established botnets to further their cause of disrupting firms they perceive as deterring Internet freedom of speech by not supporting WikiLeaks and its now-incarcerated founder, Julian Assange, according to researchers at Imperva.