Latest articles on Stuxnet

The return of Stuxnet

(20/10/2011)

According to McAfee Labs, the Stuxnet team is still active–as recent evidence has revealed. McAfee Labs received a kit from an independent team of researchers that is closely related to the original Stuxnet worm, but with a different goal: to be used for espionage and targeted attacks against sites such as Certificate Authorities (CAs). How do we know it was the Stuxnet team? To start with, the attacks are targeting CAs in regions occupied by “Canis Aureus,” the Golden Jackal, to execute... [more]

Protecting critical information assets from industrial espionage

(17/03/2011)

Organisations have been the target of electronic espionage for as long as information has been held in data format. As business becomes dependent on technology to process, store, transmit and manage information, electronic forms of espionage have sky rocketed. People will always be the weakest link in the battle to protect corporate information and data from attackers. As the capabilities of security technology improve, hackers are now targeting individuals to get at the electronic informati... [more]

Cyber criminals use digital certificates to cripple your organisation

(25/01/2011)

The recent cyber attack on an Iranian nuclear facility using the Stuxnet virus should worry all of us - not just those in close proximity who were in danger of being blown into the next world by the actions of a computer virus. The headlines around the story of the Stuxnet attack on an Iranian nuclear facility were familiar. Digital security threats and the hype surrounding them have become commonplace in our interconnected and IT-dependent world. However, this was no ordinary attack. Appare... [more]

Expected rise in targeted social engineering attacks and information warfare

(18/01/2011)

As usual at the beginning of a new year, the time has come for IT security industry heads to reflect back on what has been and forecast what is yet to come. There will undoubtedly be many unwelcome surprises, but what can we definitely expect to see? Joona Airamo, chief information security officer at Stonesoft gazes into his crystal ball and predicts how the IT security landscape is going to look in 2011: 1. As the Apple OS becomes more commonly used, there will be a nasty worm or viru... [more]

IT security trends predictions

(07/01/2011)

IT security researchers across the globe are looking ahead and speculating on what lies ahead. What threats can we expect to see more of? What are going to be the biggest threats? And will the Stuxnet superbug – as it has recently been referred to – really be the new weapon of choice for cyber insurgents? David Harley, Senior Research Fellow at antivirus software provider ESET, predicts eight IT security trends that are set for the threatscape in 2011. 1. The Boonana Trojan Horse which ... [more]

Mass infection worms are going to give way to precision malware strikes

(06/01/2011)

Stuxnet is the most complex piece of malware in the cybercriminals’ arsenal to date. The epidemic also marked the beginning of the era of attacks on industrial targets. The worm is unique in that it uses as many as four zero-day Windows vulnerabilities at the same time in order to infiltrate victim computers, and has a rootkit component signed with certificates stolen from integrated circuit manufacturers, Realtek Semiconductors and JMicron. During the third quarter of 2010, Kaspersky Lab’s ... [more]

 

Other Security news and resources