Defence and Security

Doctor Web cyber security experts: A copy of the NordVPN official website hosts the dangerous banking trojan, Win32.Bolik.2. Early this year the same group did the same with VSDC.

The Islamic State militiamen lose several key figures between Diyala and Nineveh. They try to react with waves of attacks, but in vain. Meanwhile, ISF increase the pressure on Daesh.

Insikt Group cyber security experts: The number of large-scale, international hacking operations most commonly associated with hacktivism, fall dramatically after 2016. Here’s why.

Damascus has always underestimated the Daesh pockets resistance in the Badia al-Sham desert and now risks paying the consequences. Furthermore, the SAA is engaged in Hama and Idlib.

Cyren cyber security experts: The malware is disguised as a game hack. Cybercrime threatens to delete batches of files every two hours, if the user don’t pay. But there are a couple of solutions.

Jazeera Storm's HATs dismantle the Islamic State fire group, which was preparing new attacks. Anti-Daesh maneuvers also in Tabqa and Hasakah. Meanwhile, reconstruction continues.

Kaspersky cyber security experts: The cyber espionage APT postpones the execution of PowerShower until a later stage to make the malware invisible.

Works in Raqqa (restoration of the Church of the Martyrs), Deir Ezzor and Hasakah, while the SDF hunt the Islamic State. In Idlib the SAA conquers Khan Sheikhoun, but the crisis helps Daesh.

Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab cyber security experts: It’s compiled for Linux. The malware is targeting hundred of thousand WordPress powered websites, and part of them are related to Italy.

Jazeera Storm is on the hunt for the Islamic State groups, who have been turned into guerrillas, and carry out attacks in the region. The last two occurred in Shaddadi and Qamishlo.

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ESET cyber security experts: The malware targets people when they are using sites related to sex, pornography, and known pornographic sites. It excludes not French and it’s evolving.

The maneuvers, which began three days ago, target the Islamic State militiamen in Diyala and Nineveh. The goal, in addition to the Daesh cells, are the tunnels and the facilitators.

It has been unveiled by a leaked United Nations report. Pyongyang state sponsored hackers as Lazarus preferred cryptocurrency to avoid international controls on money flux.

Jazeera Storm and Inherent Resolve target the Daesh network that passes in Shahil. At the same time they work, also with the Sand Hippos, to find the other routes of the Islamic State.

Microsoft cyber security experts: The Russian group aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sofacy Group, STRONTIUM, and Sednit) tried to compromise devices to gain initial access.

Ongoing maneuvers against Islamic State cells in Hasakah, Deir Ezzor, Nineveh and Diyala. Inherent Resolve provides air support and bombs Daesh posts.

ESET cyber security experts: There are also attacks on Ecuador, Colombia and Nicaragua. The malware operators use spear phishing campaigns with real old documents as a lure.