At the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit (SAS) in Singapore, Kaspersky Lab researchers described a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign uncovered at the end of last year. The campaign, which seems to have no links to know threat actors, uses malware dubbed TajMahal, which researchers describe as “a technically sophisticated APT framework

New Venafi research shows that the vast majority of IT professionals have major problems with state-enforced encryption backdoors. Almost 3 in 4 (73%) respondents believe that state laws mandating that tech firms provide law enforcement with access to encrypted communications, actually serve to undermine national security. In addition, 70% of

After compromising an ASUS server last year, threat actors installed a malicious backdoor on half a million computers sold by the Taiwan-based electronics giant, Kaspersky Lab claims. The hackers used their access to the server to disguise the malware as a legitimate software update which they then pushed to ASUS

Thanks to a leaky MongoDB database, a prominent Dutch white-hat hacker has discovered the backdoor account used by the Russian government to access servers belonging to businesses and organizations operating in Russia. The leaky server in which the backdoor account admin@kremlin.ru was first discovered, belonged to a Russian Lotto Website. The researcher then discovered the

“A controversial Australian bill, which could give the government access to data protected by end-to-end encryption, was passed Thursday. The bill, called the Assistance and Access Act, empowers Australian police to essentially force companies (that are operating in the country) to help the government hack into systems, plant malware or

“Cryptology experts fear that contentious Australian laws that require tech firms to give security agencies access to encrypted data could be exploited by the same terrorists and criminals they are supposed to entrap. Passed by federal parliament Thursday, the Assistance and Access Bill is likely to be copied in some