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Hacker Group That Hit Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Intensifies Attacks
itwbennett writes: The hacker group, which security researchers from Kaspersky Lab and Symantec call Wild Neutron or Morpho, has broken into the networks of over 45 large companies since 2012. After the 2013 attacks against Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft were highly publicized, the group went underground and temporarily halted its activity. However, its attacks resumed in 2014 and have since intensified, according to separate reports released Wednesday by Kaspersky Lab and Symantec.
Oh wait, they're a cybercrime gang.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
But in some countries it seems to me its still treated as vaguely harmless probably because the judiciary don't really have a clue.
Need an example? Finland recently gave Lizard Squard hacker Julius Kivimaik a 2 years suspended. I mean he only hacked 50K systems (yes 50,000) and made a hoax bomb threat to a plane. You have to wonder if the judge in that courtroom was asleep through the prosecution case.
With lenient treatment like that its no surprise smart (in a narrow sphere) but socially dysfunctional teens keep doing this shit.
i don't know boo about pen-testing, but are these guys tagging their work in some way, or is something a lot more sophisticated taking place?
What a bunch of cunts. Dicks like these are ruining the internet. Fuck off already and do something useful you bunch of fucking asshats.
By any chance, are they using computers?
Well, if the so called premier security agencies and the so called peak software bodies had actually done their job and made the defective software safer and more resilient, we would not be having these conversations. One suspects this gang is making their hacks multi part, delayed over months, then combined, so that so called network flight recorders are defeated over time. Bluntly, there is a very active market for zero days, and even licensed sales.
Oddly the hacks against offensive cyber-malware, is going to close insecurity vectors, and make things more secure overall, the proof seen in the patches being prepared. Hopefully outed 2nd rate agencies slapped for installing back-door-ed software internally!
Stop whinging and bleating. Audit code, fix stuff, and these rascals will get tired and go away, unless they find the state sanctioned back door vectors to extend their party.
after all, they did attack Twitter, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
for profit maybe but assuming it is non-state agents as reports do is going to far. First argument was - embassies were not targeted . Maybe they did not target them but their colleagues from across the hall did. The profit motive is also irrelevant - we know that sometimes the agencies need double cover so one operation can finance another.
though we don't know who did what exactly, we think those bogeymen are still at it. Duck and cover, everyone. Duck and cover.
They are not magically tracked by the Russian antivirus group. The antivirus programs when installed on a Windows system have root access to the Windows system, they know what websites you are visiting what readme's you have on your computer what programs you have on your computer they track everything you do every website you visit. If you set up a Linux honeypot your first visitors will be auto scans from Google, and Amazon. Everybody is spying and hacking. If Kaspersky lab and its counterpart from the U.S. doesn't want any customers they are going about it the right way. I seem to remember Kaspersky, at the last antivirus companies gathering they said "keep your mouth shut." Obviously not taking your own advice.
In a way I welcome attacks like this. They help prove the inviability of the cloud.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
It used to be that SLASHDOT knew the difference between hackers and crackers. So the media is telling us what geek/nerd language is and how to use it. Allow me to FTFY:
A cracker gains illegitimate accesses to a computer system.
A hacker accesses systems so that they can learn. i.e. You don't learn to hack, you hack to learn.
It's bad enough hearing hipsters go 'lol'. Get.it.right.slashdot.news.for.nerds.not.noobs
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
And these "attacks" will cease just as soon as industry capitulates to the demands of the gov't stooges... strictly a coincidence, of course.
... but hackers and geeks stopped being the arbiters of computer-based culture at least ten years ago. Our pedantic definitions don't mean squat to a public that uses them for their own purposes.
Besides, "cracker" was already turning unfashionable when Hackers came out in '95, and that movie gave it a shove out the door. And you just can't say it out loud in the South without getting weird looks. :D
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Finland is a sovereign nation and can do whatever it wishes, crybaby
Untill someone has the balls to tackle the problem of what to do with infected PCs nothing will ever change. If there was a way to take away these scum criminals tools of the trade everyone is at risk. What to do?
Jack of all trades,master of none
Take some responsibility for yourself. I'm sick and tired of this nanny state culture which has grown up around the world. What saddens me is I'm not against ensuring nobody falls through the cracks. But what we have is this bull shit nanny state where people expect the state to do everything for them.
We get our panties in a bunch over stupid ass shit and end up doing enormous damage to entire populations of people who've done nothing to no one.
This is a lot more of an important question ask than you think. A friend of mine runs a DDoS protection service, and they recently got hit by a 60 gigabit attack (Syn-flood, unamplified obviously) that was from a botnet of surveillance cameras. Shit be whack yo.