Tag: Palestine

ESET Research: Arid Viper group targets Middle East, poisons Palestinian app with spyware

June 13, 2024

ESET researchers have identified five campaigns that employ trojanised apps to target Android users. Most likely carried out by the Arid Viper APT group, these campaigns started in 2022, and three of them are still ongoing at the time of publication of this press release. They deploy multistage Android spyware, which ESET has named AridSpy, … More ESET Research: Arid Viper group targets Middle East, poisons Palestinian app with spyware

APT group POLONIUM targets Israel with Creepy malware

October 11, 2022

ESET researchers recently analyzed previously undocumented custom backdoors and cyberespionage tools deployed in Israel by the POLONIUM APT group. ESET named the five previously undocumented backdoors with the suffix “-Creep.” According to ESET telemetry, POLONIUM has targeted more than a dozen organizations in Israel since at least September 2021, with the group’s most recent actions … More APT group POLONIUM targets Israel with Creepy malware

Irish government’s Freedom of Information website hacked

March 26, 2015

The Irish government’s Freedom of Information (FOI) website has been targeted by hackers posting a pro-palestinian message that some connect to ISIS, reports the Irish Mirror, but investigators are sceptical. The website was attacked yesterday (March 24th) and is currently inaccessible, with the usual design replaced by a white screen bearing the message: “Hacked by … More Irish government’s Freedom of Information website hacked