Mahdi (malware)

Mahdi is computer malware that was initially discovered in February 2012 and was reported in July of that year. According to Kaspersky Lab and Seculert (an Israeli security firm which discovered the malware), the software has been used for targeted cyber espionage since December 2011, infecting at least 800 computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. Mahdi is named after files used in the malware and refers to the Muslim figure.^[1]

References

↑ Mahdi, the Messiah, Found Infecting Systems in Iran, Israel, July 17, 2012 Wired, Kim Zetter

Hacking in the 2010s

Major incidents	Operation Aurora (2010) Australian cyberattacks (2010) Operation Payback (2010) HBGary Federal (2011) DigiNotar (2011) RSA SecurID compromise (2011) Operation Tunisia (2011) 2011 PlayStation Network outage (2011) Operation AntiSec (2011) Stratfor email leak (2012–13) LinkedIn hack (2012) South Korea cyberattack (2013) Snapchat hack (2013) Yahoo! data breaches (2013–14) Operation Tovar (2014) iCloud leaks of celebrity photos (2014) Sony Pictures hack (2014) Office of Personnel Management data breach (2015) Hacking Team (2015) Ashley Madison data breach (2015) VTech data breach (2015) Bangladesh Bank heist (2016) Commission on Elections data breach (2016) Democratic National Committee cyber attacks (2016) DCCC cyber attacks (2016) Dyn cyberattack (2016)

Groups	Anonymous associated events Bureau 121 Cozy Bear CyberBerkut Derp Equation Group Fancy Bear GNAA Goatse Security Hacking Team Iranian Cyber Army Lizard Squad LulzRaft LulzSec New World Hackers NullCrew NSO Group PayPal 14 PLA Unit 61398 Pranknet RedHack The Shadow Brokers Syrian Electronic Army TeaMp0isoN Tailored Access Operations UGNazi Yemen Cyber Army

Individuals	George Hotz Guccifer Guccifer 2.0 Hector Monsegur Jeremy Hammond Junaid Hussain Kristoffer von Hassel Mustafa Al-Bassam MLT Ryan Ackroyd Topiary The Jester weev

Vulnerabilities discovered	Heartbleed (2014) Shellshock (2014) POODLE (2014) Rootpipe (2014) JASBUG (2015) Stagefright (2015) DROWN (2016) Badlock (2016) Dirty COW (2016)

Malware	Careto / The Mask CryptoLocker Dexter Duqu Duqu 2.0 FinFisher Flame Gameover ZeuS Mahdi Metulji botnet NSA ANT catalog Pegasus R2D2 Shamoon Stars virus Stuxnet XAgent

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Mahdi (malware)

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