Cybercrime spread malware via fake websites of popular software
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.
Iraq, wave of arrests in third phase of Operation Victory Will against Isis
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.
Hactivism as fashion has ended, it’s returning to origins
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.
Syria, Isis opens Wilayat al-Sham west of the Euphrates
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.
Fortnite gamers are under attack by Syrk ransomware
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.
Syria, maxi SDF blitz against the ISIS assassination cell in Raqqa
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.
Cloud Atlas updated its attack arsenal with new tools to avoid detection
Kaspersky cyber security experts: The cyber espionage APT postpones the execution of PowerShower until a later stage to make the malware invisible.
Syria, post-ISIS reconstruction began in the east while north is on chaos
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.
Cybercrime, there is a new version of GoBrut botnet in the wild
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.
Syria, the SDF at Deir Ezzor dismantle another ISIS cell in Busayrah
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.