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Operation Shady RAT - Biggest Cyber Attacks in history uncovered When the history of 2011 is written, it may well be remembered as the Year of the Hacks. McAfee publish a new report that it says is one of the most comprehensive analysis ever revealed of victim profiles from a five-year long targeted operation by a specific actor dubbed Operation Shady RAT. McAfee released a 14-page report that details the largest coordinated cyber attack recorded to date. This particular attack, possibly orchestrated by China, broke into 72 organizations over the course of five years.The targets include the US, Canada, Taiwan, India, South Korea, and Vietnam. The attack also hit the UN, the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-doping agency, defense contractors, tech companies and more. Most attacks lasted less than a month, but some, like that on the UN Secretariat, lasted for almost two years. McAfee say learned of the extent of the hacking campaign in March this year, when it...

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Operation Defense - Anonymous shut down Colombia's president website Anonymous and Colombian Hackers shut down the websites of Colombia's president , the interior and justice ministry, the intelligence service DAS and the governing U party. According to hacker's Twitter page, the hacker attack was meant as a protest against government censorship. The DoS attack on the government websites named " Operation Defense ". On the website of the U Party, the hackers posted a fake biography of President Juan Manuel Santos in which the hackers talk about the break-in of the President's facebook page carried out on July 20, Colombia's Independence Day.

Zero-day flaw in WordPress image utility allows to upload files and execute codes Mark Maunder , CEO of Seattle-based technology firm Feedjit, discovered the flaw after his own blog was hacked to load advertising content. He ended up tracing the issue back to TimThumb, which he uses on his blog. Hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability affecting TimThumb, a free image resizing utility widely used on the blogging platform WordPress. Vulnerability in brief : An image resizing utility called timthumb.php is widely used by many WordPress themes. Google shows over 39 million results for the script name. If your WordPress theme is bundled with an unmodified timthumb.php as many commercial and free themes are, then you should immediately either remove it or edit it and set the $allowedSites array to be empty. The utility only does a partial match on hostnames allowing hackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code in your timthumb cache directory. I haven’t audited the rest...

CA security finds Android Trojan which records phone calls A new Android Trojan is capable of recording phone conversations, according to a CA security researcher . The trojan is triggered when the Android device places or receives a phone call. It saves the audio file and related information to the phone's microSD card, and includes a configuration file with information on a remote server and settings used by the trojan. The malware also " drops a 'configuration' file that contains key information about the remote server and the parameters ," CA security researcher Dinesh Venkatesan writes in a blog, perhaps suggesting that the recorded calls can be uploaded to a server maintained by an attacker. According to the post, the trojan presents itself as an " Android System Message " that requires users to press an "Install" button for it to insert itself in the phone. Once installed, the trojan records all incoming and outgoing calls to a di...