Turla VS Oilrig: when APTs clash
Russian APT uses then abuses Iranian APT tools and infrastructure Turla background Turla (Venomous Bear, KRYPTON, WATERBUG) is a Russian APT operating since approximately 2005 who use spear phishing and watering hole campaigns and develop tools and malware. The…
MICROSOFT are angry at CHARMING KITTEN……. again
A blog by Microsoft’s vice president of security and trust says that the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center observed the iranian cyber group CHARMING KITTEN (Phosphorous) try to access customer accounts. Microsoft reported that the activity targeted accounts that belonged to:…
Are you safe from the new zero-day Android exploit?
Google has identified another new zero-day exploit in Android devices (Apple users can skip to a different article!). This is the last in a series of Android exploits called CVE-2019-2215. This is not a warning by Google, this exploit is…
How to do a bank robbery without the guns
In September a iranian cloud service provider named ArvanCloud reported that a number of digital currency websites experienced a DDOS attack and the three victim named were arzjoo.com and excoino.com and avalpardakht.com. The attack on Arzjoo was the greatest and…
Before you move app….
Telegram talaeii which is known also as telegram gold and hotgram are common telegram forks developed in iran. Telegram warns against the use of these unofficial apps and google play protect (which is a features of google play store)…
Social media has a dark side – but this must not be an excuse to limit our freedoms
All over the globe we are seeing more news about the responsibilities of social media companies for the content shown on their sites. Of course, by letting people have free speech, social media platforms play an important role in drawing…
Microsoft legal action against CHARMING KITTEN after more malicious domains identified
It is known that in the past five years Microsoft teams were closely following CHARMING KITTEN, known as also APT35 and Ajax Security Team and Phosphorus, because the hacking group attack the computer systems of business and governments in order…
Whatsapp – updates and data sharing
Whatsapp reports that important updates are to come soon. Recently the company have made updates for android that allow a user to make group calls and another to make it more easy for a user to identify the person they…
What is Snort and why use it?
The Intrusion Prevention Systems called Snort has become very popular so here is some information that may be of useful to readers. An Intrusion Prevention Systems – IPS – is very similar to the Intrusion Detection System which monitors…
An introduction to Python
We are not talking about the snake here. Python is now one of the most used and one of the most versatile high level languages. It is quite easy to pick up and so has use to teach people of…