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Submission + - Hacked Swedish Military Servers Used in Attacks on US Banks

Submitted by wiredmikey
wiredmikey writes: Swedish military computers were hacked and used in an attack targeting major US banks in 2013, the armed forces said on Monday. The attack knocked out the web sites of as many as 20 major US banks and financial institutions, sometimes for several days. According to Swedish military spokesman Mikael Abramsson, a server in the Swedish defense system had a vulnerability which was exploited by hackers to carry out the attacks.

At the time, the attack, which began in 2012 and continued for months, was one of the biggest ever reported. US officials blamed Iran, suggesting it was in retaliation for political sanctions and several earlier cyber attacks on its own systems.

Submission + - CIA Won't Waterboard Again, Even If Ordered By Future President (msnbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News in an exclusive interview that his agency will not engage in harsh "enhanced interrogation" practices, including waterboarding, which critics call torture — even if ordered to by a future president. "I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques I've heard bandied about because this institution needs to endure," Brennan said. The CIA used waterboarding and other techniques on terrorist suspects after the 9/11 attacks. But in January 2009, President Obama banned the practices in his first few days in office with an executive order. When asked specifically about waterboarding Brennan could not have been clearer. "Absolutely, I would not agree to having any CIA officer carrying out waterboarding again," he said.

Submission + - The Source of all Major Android Banking Trojans Just Got Updated to v2 (softpedia.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Apparently, during the past months it has started coming to the surface the fact that most top-tier Android malware was actually related, coming from a common malware variant called GM Bot, sold for only $5,000 on underground hacking forums.

Taking advantage of his new found glory, the coder behind that malware has now released a second version, three times the price of the first, complete with 3 exploits that can guarantee root access on older Android versions (which are plenty thanks to stupid OEMs and carriers).

Some of the malware that originated from GM Bot includes: SimpleLocker (first crypto-ransomware for Android), AceCard (considered the most sophisticated Android malware to date), Bankosy + SlemBunk (banking trojan + backdoor), and Mazar Bot (banking trojan + backdoor + ransomware). To make things worst, GM Bot v1's source code also got leaked online, making it available to any halfwit developer that wants a crack at a cybercrime career.

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