Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on the BlackEnergy APT Group, Amazon getting into the SSL certificate game, and government agencies being told to audit their systems for the Juniper backdoor.
Tag Archives: BlackEnergy
New wave of attacks against Ukrainian power industry
The cyberattacks against the Ukrainian electric power industry continue. Background information on this story can be found in our recent publications: BlackEnergy trojan strikes again: Attacks Ukrainian electric power industry BlackEnergy by the SSHBearDoor: attacks against Ukrainian news media and electric industry BlackEnergy and the Ukrainian power outage: What we really know Yesterday we discovered
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The security review: BlackEnergy, Internet Explorer and Fitbit
Highlights from the past seven days in information security include an analysis of the BlackEnergy trojan and Microsoft’s decision to end support for older versions of Internet Explorer.
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Operational technology ‘susceptible to remote attacks’
Reid Wightman, a security researcher, has discovered that internet-connected operational technology can ‘easily’ be attacked and damaged.
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BlackEnergy and the Ukrainian power outage: What we really know
Robert Lipovsky, a senior malware researcher at ESET, offers his expert insight into the recent discovery of BlackEnergy malware in Ukrainian energy distribution companies.
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The security review: BlackEnergy, CES 2016 and Windows 10
Highlights from the last seven days in information security include the return of the BlackEnergy trojan and security insights from CES 2016.
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BlackEnergy trojan strikes again: Attacks Ukrainian electric power industry
The recent attacks on the electrical power industry in Ukraine are connected to attacks on the media and to targeted cyber-espionage attacks against Ukrainian governmental agencies.
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BlackEnergy by the SSHBearDoor: attacks against Ukrainian news media and electric industry
The cybercriminal group behind BlackEnergy, the malware family that has been around since 2007 and has made a comeback in 2014, was also active in the year 2015.
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BlackEnergy Malware Used in Attacks Against Industrial Control Systems
Attackers are using BlackEnergy malware to attack HMI software running inside industrial control systems, according to an advisory from ICS-CERT.
White House hit by “sustained†cyber attack, hackers breach unclassified network
IT security staff have spent the last few weeks fighting hackers in the White House, after a computer network was breached. But can we tell who was behind the attack?
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