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Hackers exist in most countries of the world, but as we can clearly see from their campaigns, they each have their own way of operating. Experts from Trend Micro have published a paper in which they detail the differences between hackers from Eastern Europe and ones from East Asian countries. Entitled Peter the Great vs. Sun Tzu – Peter the Great was a Russian tsar and Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general – the study focuses on the threats posed by these actors to organizations, particularly ones from the US.   The first noteworthy observation made by the experts focuses on the malicious tools used by these cybercriminals. Hackers from Eastern Europe use sophisticated custom-built malware, while the ones from Asia rely on simpler techniques and off-the-shelf malware. The first noteworthy observation made by the experts focuses on the malicious tools used by these cybercriminals. Hackers from Eastern Europe use sophisticated custom-built ...

Turkish hackers recently hacked the Web site of soccer team FC Spartak Moscow after the Russian team's fans burned Turkish flags and pictures of Atatürk during a Champions League playoff match against Turkish team Fenerbahce on August 21. A portrait of Atatürk next to a Turkish flag was also posted on the website.   The group replaced the website's original content with a statement that called on the team to "immediately apologize." " You will immediately apologize to the Turkish Republic and the Turkish people. No crime goes without punishment, and FIFA may forgive you, but we won't ,"   The Spartak site was running again by Thursday afternoon after the club used its Twitter account to blame the incident on 'Turkish hackers.     Spartak Moscow fans burned flags and posters of modern Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, during their team’s 2-1 victory over the Istanbul giants in the first leg of their Ch...

The website of  the Moscow district court that sentenced three members of the band Pussy Riot to jail has been attacked by hackers posting anti-Putin messages. As well as the anti-Putin slogan Anonymous Russia posted an appeal for the band’s release as well as a video clip of one of the band’s songs.The slogan read: “ Putin’s thieving gang is plundering our country, wake up comrades! ”     In a message posted on the website, the hackers said the in Russian that :  We are American group Anonymous. We don’t forget and we don’t forgive. Justice system has to be transparent. Pussy [Riot's members] are alive.   Another caption called for the release of the band’s jailed members - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Marina Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30. Jude Marina Syrova said that the women had grossly violated public order and “ deeply insulted the faith of the believers with their disrespectful criminal act ” when the...

Alexei Borodin, the same hacker who came up with the recent in-app purchase exploit that allowed free transactions for iOS users has struck again with a new method that allows users of Mac apps to do the same. The ‘In-Appstore for OS X’ service uses a method that’s very similar to that used on iOS devices to spoof transactions made to Apple’s servers. We won’t rehash the method too much here, as we covered it in-depth with our previous article. The way that users implement it is slightly different on OS X than it is on iOS, but the root method is basically similar. After installing two local certificates, a user points their computer’s DNS settings at Borodin’s server and it pretends to be the Mac App Store, issuing verification of the purchase. It’s not incredibly simple, but it’s not all that hard either. This time there is a companion app called ‘Grim Receiper that must be run on the local machine to facilitate the process as well. It effectively bypass...