LOT experienced a denial-of-service condition that disrupted flight planning and grounded some aircraft, but the incident's causes remain murky. LOT called it a cyber attack; others think bug, accident, casual prank have yet to be ruled out.
Operation Cleaver, the Iranian cyber campaign Cylance discovered (and named) last winter appears to have had a hitherto unknown target: the Saudi Foreign Ministry.
As those who attribute attacks continue to narrow down the list of Chinese threat groups suspected in the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM) hack, the US and China prepare for security talks. The US is expected to bring up the OPM affair; China is expected to counter with the latest tranche of Snowden documents.
Some observers persist in calling OPM a "cyber Pearl Harbor," a metaphor which more reflective minds think wayward. For one thing, Admiral Kimmel strikes many as having been far more ready for an attack on Pearl than Director Archuleta seems to have been for foreign inspection of her data. (Kimmel didn't outsource harbor maintenance to the Zaibatsu, for example.) And, of course, no one's been killed in this typical intelligence operation. In any case, the Senate is grilling OPM leaders and others this morning.
SANS describes the difficult-to-eradicate XOR DDoS Trojan. Dr. Web reports growth in OS X adware. Fortinet warns that AJAX is delivering unusually well-obfuscated payloads. Trend Micro and others look at the Deep, Dark Web.
An interesting exercise in Tel Aviv displays difficulties of cyber attribution and the potential for disinformation.