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MAGIC KITTEN – The Oldest Kitten

In January 2015, the German news outlet Der Spiegel released previously unpublished documents on cyber espionage conducted by American intelligence agencies. One of them revealed an NSA tactic labeled “fourth party collection,” which is the practice of breaking into the…

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…

Famous Malware: Part four of the Hacker Series

Dear readers for part four of our hacker series will talk about some of world’s most famous malware. The tools are used by APTs to attack their victim and cause major damage     Emotet 2018 Our first famous malware…

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…

Did Iran hack news conference for victims of Ukrainian flight 752?

reports of a hacked broadcast in response to Flight 752 verdict in Canada According to Canadian news sources a court in the province of Ontario Canada awarded $107M (US $84M) to six families of flight PS752 in response to the…

Fancy Bear – Part three of The Hacking Series

  Dear readers in our previous article we talked about Iranian APT known as Charming kittens, we talk about the seven year they spend hacking numerous companies and we talk about the HBO hacks that made them famous. In this…

New Moses Staff hacking group targets Israeli organizations

Recently a new hacking group has been seen targeting Israeli organizations and the new hacking group which calls itself The Moses Staff has gained access to victims networks and once inside they have stolen sensitive data before encrypting the victims…

Cyberserve company the target of Black Shadow Group

Black Shadow attacks Cyberserve according to Israeli reporting, the hacker group Black Shadow announced that they had hacked into the servers of the Israeli internet company Cyberserve, turning off the servers and threatening to leak data. The Jerusalem post identifies…

Charming Kitten – Part two of The Hacking Series

    Dear readers in Charming Kitten – Part two of our hack series will be talking about the Iranian hacking group more known as Charming Kitten. The group known as APT35 was first identified by cybersecurity firm FireEye in…