Pegasus Spyware and the commercialization of spying
Guest written by: Laurrits Vestergaard Spying on personal communications is not new, it has been undertaken by governments for decades. However, the discovery of the extent of use of the Pegasus spyware in 2016 and subsequent research by Citizen…
What actually is a strong password?
Guest written by: Laurits Vestergaard What actually is a strong password? Increasingly our lives are online, thought innumerable online accounts all of which require a password. There are constant stories of data breaches and hacks where hackers have taken advantage…
Is Physical security missing from your cybersecurity policy?
Physical security is an often forgotten or overlooked part of a corporate cybersecurity policy. To be effective a cybersecurity policy must be able to counter a cyberattack at any stage of what cyber experts call a cyber-kill chain. …
Predatory Sparrow Cyber group attacks Iranian Steel Companies
Guest written by: Jamshid Sani CISP A hacking group called Predatory Sparrow has claimed responsibility for a recent cyber-attack which allegedly targeted three Iranian steel companies. In social media posts on Monday 27 June 2022, the group named Khuzestan…
Bitcoin what is happening to the crypto market
Bitcoin, the world’s largest digital currency, has fallen sharply to $ 24,548 (103,563,060 tomans) per coin, the lowest level in 18 months. Other known currencies have met the same fate, with ether falling from a high of $ 4811.70…
Who are the Hackers of Savior?
The group of hackers calling themselves Hackers of Savior last month claimed to have successfully broken into Israel banking system, A video was posted that showed group gaining access to the central bank Zahav system, a wire system for securely…
DDoS attack brings down Israeli government websites
At the beginning of March Israeli government websites suffered a cyberattack claiming to be originating in Iran, an attack believed to be a DDoS attack beginning in the evening with increased traffic to numerous servers running Gov.il websites. Attack bandwidth…
Poor security incriminate MuddyWater, MOIS in malicious cyber campaign
MuddyWater the APT linked to the Ministry of Intelligence and Security who got their name due to confusion in attributing a wave of attacks that took place in 2017 has been caught running a number of malicious cyber campaigns against…
Moses Staff reappears
Last year a new hacking group called Moses Staff started targeting Israeli organization and gain access to victims network before stealing sensitive data and encrypting victim system. After this attack we reach out to the group to learn about…
What is Log4j? The most serious security breach ever?
In December a new vulnerability was discovered inside log4j piece of java software used by most major software companies. Quoting a leading cybersecurity expert in that time “The log4j vulnerability is the most serious vulnerability I have seen…