It has been reported that businesses in Guernsey are being warned about a group of cyber criminals targeting the island's firms. During the last 12-18 months the organisation calling itself DD4BC has been targeting various companies - ranging from online casinos to banks - with ‘distributed denial of service’ attacks (DDoS).
It emerged today that Russian cyber-security firm, Kaspersky, has come under fire after former employees accused the company of creating fake malware and viruses to trick their competitors.
London, UK: AppRiver has confirmed its first distributor for the BeNeLux region. DCC Nederland, a value added distributor, is to add all of AppRiver’s products to its portfolio – including SecureTide™ spam and virus protection, CipherPost Pro™ email encryption and SecureSurf™ Web protection.
The media recently reported [1] on a potential targeted cyberattack on Alberto Nisman, an Argentine prosecutor who was found dead under mysterious circumstances. The file purportedly found on his phone was reported by the Argentine media to be named “Estrictamente Secreto y Confidencial.pdf.jar”, and as discovered and reported by the researcher Marquis-Boire, a file was indeed uploaded to VirusTotal [2] with the same name. The file was uploaded from Argentina and the upload is time stamped to “2015-05-29 18:48:24”. The file is JAR (Java Archive) file and is a variant of the AlienSpy Remote Access Trojan, or RAT.
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