http://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/16/pawn-storm-the-most-significant-cyber-threat-to-the-us-nato/
Pawn Storm “the most significant cyber threat to the US, NATO” *16/10/2015* *By* Sead Fadilpašić <http://www.itproportal.com/staff/seadfadilpasic/>, CONTRIBUTOR Journalancer <https://twitter.com/Journalancer> Pawn Storm, the hack attack we reported on a few days back, is “the most significant cyber-espionage threat to the U.S. government and her NATO partners”. Those are the words of Trend Micro’s chief cybersecurity officer, Tom Kellermann, who spoke to *The Daily Caller News Foundation* <http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/15/russian-hackers-expose-critical-vulnerability-in-adobe-flash-player/> . SEE ALSO: *Illegal downloaders to receive email warnings, as Pirate Bay traffic doubles* <http://www.itproportal.com/2014/07/21/illegal-downloaders-receive-email-warnings-pirate-bay-traffic-doubles/> Pawn Storm is a cyber-attack which uses classic phishing techniques and attacks foreign ministries across the globe. It sends out emails with topics like “Suicide car bomb targets NATO troop convoy Kabul,” or “Syrian troops make gains as Putin defends air strikes” – something that would be interesting for people working in foreign ministries. The emails provide a link which, once clicked, re-directs the victim to a site where a malicious Flash code is found. The Flash Player vulnerability would allow a hacker to take over the system. “Kellermann identified civilian government agencies, the Department of Defense and NATO as three potentially high value targets if Russian hackers want to target the US,” The Daily Caller says in a report. “It’s worth noting that the URLs hosting the new Flash zero-day exploit are similar to the URLs seen in attacks that targeted North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and the White House in April this year,” Trend Micro writes in a report. SEE ALSO: *The app fraud no one is talking about* <http://www.itproportal.com/2014/09/04/the-app-fraud-no-one-is-talking-about/> The security firm has notified Adobe and are working with them to address the issue. Flash has been hit by so many attacks recently, that calls for its complete removal have been loud in multiple occasions. The player has been blocked in both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Read more: http://www.itproportal.com/2015/10/16/pawn-storm-the-most-significant-cyber-threat-to-the-us-nato/#ixzz3orfXvfxP __._,_.___ ------------------------------ Posted by: "Beowulf" <[email protected]> ------------------------------ Visit Your Group <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/grendelreport/info;_ylc=X3oDMTJmYmd1YmlmBF9TAzk3MzU5NzE0BGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDdnRsBHNsawN2Z2hwBHN0aW1lAzE0NDUxMTg4NjI-> [image: Yahoo! Groups] <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo;_ylc=X3oDMTJlOXAzanBiBF9TAzk3NDc2NTkwBGdycElkAzIwMTk0ODA2BGdycHNwSWQDMTcwNTMyMzY2NwRzZWMDZnRyBHNsawNnZnAEc3RpbWUDMTQ0NTExODg2Mg--> • Privacy <https://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/groups/details.html> • Unsubscribe <[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe> • Terms of Use <https://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/terms/> __,_._,___ -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
