ClearSky Cyberdefense Forum

he University of Texas at Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratorydemonstrated hacking a civilian drone, forcing it to change course by sending fake GPS signals, and then, “as if some phantom has given the drone a self-destruct order, it hurtles toward the ground.” At the last second, the drone was spared but Professor Todd Humphreys and his team were pleased. They had successfully proved “a gaping hole in the government’s plan to open US airspace to thousands of drones. They could be turned into weapons.” Humphreys told Fox News, “Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkbABvNUNw0

http://blogs.computerworld.com/security/20593/civilian-drones-vulnerable-hackers-can-be-hijacked-used-missiles

A recent fraud ring through which attackers raided high-value bank accounts, nicknamed Operation High Roller (.PDF), employed attacks that were quick, required no human interaction and have already affected several tiers of credit unions, regional banks and large global banks, over the last several months.

In the ring, analyzed in a report by McAfee and Guardian Analytics, groups of attackers have used 60 servers to exploit 60 banks, focusing on “high-value commercial accounts” and “high net worth individuals” in Europe, Latin America and the United States.

http://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/rp-operation-high-roller.pdf

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/new-fraud-ring-operation-high-roller-targets-rich-062612

Cyber attacks by a foreign state resulted in a British company losing £800m in revenue, the head of MI5 revealed yesterday.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-firm-lost-800m-to-cyber-attack-7881204.html

Henry and other top U.S. officials have underscored the severity of cyber threats by citing a case in which one publicly traded company lost $1 billion of intellectual property in a single intrusion over a weekend.

Henry declined to identify the company, but said many corporations were unaware that their networks had been breached until FBI agents notified them that they discovered proprietary, company-specific data outside their networks.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-media-tech-summit-cyber-disclosurebre85c1e3-20120613,0,4353697.story

North Korea was caught attempting cyberattacks on Incheon International Airport using viruses planted in game programs, according to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency.

http://koreajoongangdaily.joinsmsn.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2953940

Eric Grosse, VP Security Engineering: We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users’ accounts unauthorized. When we have specific intelligence—either directly from users or from our own monitoring efforts—we show clear warning signs and put in place extra roadblocks to thwart these bad actors.

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.co.il/2012/06/security-warnings-for-suspected-state.html