August 10th, 2012
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice??Kaspersky Labs discovered the Gauss malware campaign?affecting countries across the Middle East with the majority of infections centered in Lebanon. ?State-sponsored? started trending worldwide.? Gauss phones-home to its command and control servers using xOR encryption.? The key? 0xACDC.? ACDC?? Where have we heard ACDC lately?? Oh!? It was the still unconfirmed?Iranian nuclear plant Thunderstruck?virus!? Gauss is mildly interesting,?but the risk to Verizon Enterprise Solutions customers: LOW. In hacking news,?Reuters? blog network?and?Twitter account?were compromised by pro-Syrian government hackers and?Anonymous targeted the Ukrainian government?after it shut down the Demonoid torrent site.?Microsoft pre-announced 9 bulletins addressing 10 vulnerabilities?as part of next week?s Black Tuesday update. Joining Microsoft in patching critical vulnerabilities next Tuesday will be?Adobe which plans to release a Security Update?for Reader and Acrobat. A must read article this week is?technology journalist Mat Honan?s personal account?of how his digital world was turned upside down when his Amazon, Apple, and social media accounts were pwned by hackers. And if you?re in the market for a new TV,?consider avoiding third-party retailers on Amazon?unless you want to receive a Sig Sauer assault rifle in the mail.?It?s not paranoia?if?people really are out to punk you.
Tags: INTSUM
Source: http://securityblog.verizonbusiness.com/2012/08/10/weekly-intelligence-summary-2012-08-10/
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