Iranian Hackers Suspected in Worldwide DNS Hijacking Campaign (zdnet.com) 47
US cybersecurity firm FireEye has uncovered an extremely sophisticated hacking campaign during which a suspected Iranian group redirected traffic from companies all over their globe through their own malicious servers, recording company credentials for future attacks. From a news report: Affected organizations include telecoms, ISPs, internet infrastructure providers, government, and sensitive commercial entities across the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and North America. FireEye analysts believe an Iranian-based group is behind the attacks, although there is no definitive proof for exact attribution just yet. Researchers said the entities targeted by the group have no financial value, but they would be of interest to the Iranian government.
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"no definitive proof"
Hey! Good enough for me! Hang the bastards, right??
This is sick! "no definitive proof", but let's put it in the headline anyway. Sells more papers. The entire "news' scene has become tabloid gossip!
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"no definitive proof"
Hey! Good enough for me! Hang the bastards, right??
This is sick! "no definitive proof", but let's put it in the headline anyway. Sells more papers. The entire "news' scene has become tabloid gossip!
Read the article. It may not be "definitive" but it's well beyond merely plausible
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it's well beyond merely plausible
Only by an appeal to authority.
redirected traffic all over their globe (Score:2)
So those of us on a different globe are not affected?
When Republicans lie, keep the noose ready. (Score:3, Informative)
When Republicans lie, all they effectively do is make their tiny penis just that much shorter. There are few males left. FYI that was Iran's money that the US had taken illegally and was compelled to give back by a court, in fact, and the way Obama got them to agree to the payment WITHOUT INTEREST was very much in the US best interest as it saved billions in EXTRA money that would have been paid to Iran. So yes, thanks Obama.
TLDR, basically Republicans are faggots who lie about everything.
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Explains all the leftists having to change gender (and literally invert their penis) then.
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Well, a Saint Ronald made a deal with them once upon a time to hold some hostages a few months more, until he'd won an election. And then sold them advanced weaponry against the law.
Isn't this ironic, due to the shutdown and certs.. (Score:5, Informative)
This is timely. Right now, because of the shutdown, there are a lot of government domains whose certs are not being renewed, because there are no sysadmins able to renew them. So, with an expired cert, all it takes is a DNS attack to redirect someone from foo.gov to foo.ir, as the user is almost certainly not going to examine the cert and manually check its pedigree and dates.
This is going to cause grave security concerns going forward.
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Not to worry. Give him another 5 bil, and he'll give you a glorious new concrete fireWall!
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Dare I say it... collusion?
FireEye suspects Iranian group? (Score:3)
Equifax back FireEye for hacker defence [regmedia.co.uk]:
“We have this category that Equifax calls unhandled malware, [with] which traditional security approaches haven’t been very helpful. Putting in FireEye has really helped us detect this unhandled malware, then gives us the capability to take action to stay secure.” link [cnmeonline.com]
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Yeah, it is, like, an outfit that is totally independent from government influence, and they are totally not twisting anything on government behalf.
https://venturebeat.com/2009/1... [venturebeat.com]