Cyber Threat Intelligence – Alerts

February 17, 2017

New Ransomware Cerber bypasses firewalls and anti-virus files

Typically, the malware trying to bring security solutions fail or prefer them not to communicate and work rolled up, revealing a particular antivirus product on the infected machine.
February 13, 2017

Hitachi Payment (India) Confirms ATM malware hit

breach at a private bank's ATM network last year that led to 32 lakh debit cards being exposed, forcing banks to replace most of them, has been solved. Hitachi Payment Services — the company to which Yes Bank had outsourced processing of ATM transactions — has said that investigations show that its systems were hit by a sophisticated malware attack and it is not possible to say how many cards' details have been extracted.
February 12, 2017

Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) Pakistan – Anti-Money Laundering Software

with a little help from the UK government and the UN Office of Drugs and Crime, an automated system will track millions of transactions and be able to flag suspicious ones instead of the authorities having to wait for banks.
February 12, 2017

Indian hackers claimed to have hacked Islamabad, Peshawar, Multan International and Karachi airport

The India - Pakistan cyber war intensifies as retaliatory ransomware attack cripples websites of Islamabad, Multan and Karachi airports
February 11, 2017

Year 2016 – 50,362 cyber security incidents were logged in India (CERT-In)

The attacks are observed to be originating from various countries including China, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania, the UK, the US, Syria, the UAE and Italy.
February 11, 2017

HACKING CAMPAIGN TARGETING MINISTRY AND EMBASSY SITES

malicious reconnaissance campaign that targets websites. It is unknown what is the intent behind the campaign as of this writing, however, the profile of the targets resembles those that are common targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors. As the attack is currently active, it effectively turns compromised sites into attack surfaces against their visitors.
February 11, 2017

Inter Continental Hotels Group (IHG) – DATA Breach

parent company of Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn and Kimpton Hotels and Resorts, has confirmed the hacking of their payment cards processing systems at 12 hotels located in North America and the Caribbean.
February 6, 2017

Anonymous Hacktivist group hacks 10,613 Tor Websites On Dark Web

Hacktivist group Anonymous hacks the company servers Freedom Hosting II and lay down some 10,000 web pages based on Tor, representing almost 20% of the web deep. Hackers claim that at least half of the web pages were child pornography.