January 24th, 2012 
Mourad Ben Lakhoua Following latest conditions that exist on the cyber space with expectation of new attacks and threats the Tunisian CERT raised the Alert indicator to the second level. Which mean that there is a moderate risk rating for all cyber users and they need to be more vigilant while using their system. A list of best [...]
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Tags: Computer Safety, Level Alert, Security, tun-CERT 
No Comments » January 23rd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua On some hacking forums user of ZeuS expressed disappointment as they are not finding improvement in the malware program. The problem that they need to update source code to find new bugs allows having more income. According to Brian Krebs article malware writer will not just sell you the product but they provide customers with [...]
Posted in Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Crimeware, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Zeus, Zeus bot No Comments »
January 2nd, 2012 Mourad Ben Lakhoua By Haythem El MIR On January 2, 2011 around 22h, the group of activists Anonymous launched one of the most massive and severe attacks against Tunisian cyberspace, protesting against political practices that plague the freedom of Internet access and denouncing abuses related to human rights. The attack lasted ten days, affecting about fifty servers belonging [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking, Cyberwar, Guest blog, InfoSec Tags: Anonymous, CPR, DDOS, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service), Dostourona, Hackactivist, Nahdha, opTunisia, sidibouzid, Tunisia, tunisie No Comments » December 8th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Hundreds of websites are hacked on daily bases but when it comes to multinational company with big budgets and investment this will be the first topic on news. Today a Greek hacker defaced first soft drink company Coca cola in Norway. Announcing the attack with the cause have been published by anonymous user on Pastbin [...]
September 1st, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua Anonymous is a rather strange organization in term that it is not really organized. Of course, it is internationally recognized as hack activist group involved in the protests around the world and penetrates into websites and databases of corporations and government agencies. Unity of its members are not yet clear, some members call for operation [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Anon, Anonymous, Antisec, Cybercrime & Hacking, LulzSec No Comments » August 17th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua According to new research conducted by M86 Security Labs, number of malicious spams has increased in a significant way in August. Last week spams increased by 13 per cent while this week it has reached the 24%. Majority of these spams are coming from Cutwail botnet, Festi and Asprox . Previously Microsoft has shut down [...]
Posted in Cybercrime & Hacking Tags: Asprox, Bagle, Bobax, Botnet, Cutwail, Cyber spying, Cybercrime, Cybercrime & Hacking, Fivetoon / DMSSpammer, Fuflo, Gheg, Lethic, Maazben, Malware, Rustock, Spam, SpyEye, Waledac, Xarvester No Comments » August 10th, 2011 Mourad Ben Lakhoua The hacker group published a YouTube video announcing their plan, and urging others to take down Facebook on November 5th. Maybe that the group has created the new tool called #RefRef and they feel to use it for launching distributed denial of service against Facebook. I think the Facebook needs to take the warning seriously. [...]
