Tag: NSA

  • Retefe banking Trojan leverages EternalBlue exploit to infect Swiss users

    Cyber criminals behind the Retefe banking Trojan have improved it by adding a new component that uses the NSA exploit EternalBlue. ETERNALBLUE is the alleged NSA exploit that made the headlines with DOUBLEPULSAR in the WannaCry attack and NotPetya massive attacks. Read full news article on Security Affairs  

  • Mini-Heartbleed info leak bug strikes Apache, airborne malware, NSA algo U-turn, and more

    Roundup As ever, it’s been a doozy of a week for cybersecurity, or lack thereof. The Equifax saga just keeps giving, the SEC admitted it was thoroughly pwned, and Slack doesn’t bother to sign its Linux versions. Read full news article on The Register  

  • If Russia hacked US, evidence is in NSA database: claim

    Two former senior US intelligence officials claim that evidence, if any, of Russian interference in the US elections last year would still be available in NSA databases. Read full news article on iTWire  

  • NSA forced to back down in fight over encryption algorithms

    Cryptography experts from a number of countries have forced the US National Security Agency to reverse its stance on two data encryption algorithms that it wanted to set as global industry standards. Read full news article on iTWire  

  • ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms

    ISO Rejects NSA Encryption Algorithms The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. Read full news article on Schneier on Security  

  • Three things to know about the dark web

    CISOs have to stay ahead of what’s likely to come. With this in mind, here are three things you need to know about the dark web. Read full news article on Help Net Security  

  • What the NSA Collects via 702

    What the NSA Collects via 702 New York Times reporter Charlie Savage writes about some bad statistics we’re all using: Among surveillance legal policy specialists, it is common to cite a set of statistics from an October 2011 opinion by Judge John Bates, then of the FISA Court, about the volume of internet communications the…

  • A Google security chief considers the NSA a state-sponsored threat

    Today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2017 Google’s Manager of Information Security Heather Adkins sat down for a fireside chat. Among the varying topics discussed, she spoke about what’s like to have the NSA tap the company’s lines and how she views state sponsored threats. Read full news article on TechCrunch  

  • The NSA’s 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law

    This spring, the government announced a change to the way the National Security Agency collects information targeting foreigners, using the telecom backbone in what it calls “upstream” collection. Read full news article on motherboard.vice.com  

  • Wyden demands answers from telecom giants, NSA over SS7 vulnerabilities

    Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden is demanding to know how America’s largest telecommunications companies plan to stop hackers from exploiting vulnerabilities in an outdated mobile-data transfer framework that remains fundamental to how cellphones function. Read full news article on Cyberscoop  

  • ShadowBrokers Releases NSA UNITEDRAKE Manual

    ShadowBrokers Releases NSA UNITEDRAKE Manual The ShadowBrokers released the manual for UNITEDRAKE, a sophisticated NSA Trojan that targets Windows machines: Able to compromise Windows PCs running on XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008, Vista, Windows 7 SP 1 and below, as well as Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, the attack tool acts as a…

  • TheShadowBrokers group returns with NSA UNITEDRAKE hacking malware and promises more leaks

    It feels as though it has been a while since we heard anything from the hacking group TheShadowBrokers. The group’s latest data dump sees the release of the NSA’s UNITEDRAKE exploit tool, and there’s also a promise of two data dumps a month moving forward. Read full news article on BetaNews  

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