Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Researchers at security firm Group-IB have exposed the attacks carried out by the Silence cybercriminal group, providing details on its tactics and tools. Experts at security firm Group-IB have exposed the attacks committed by Silence cybercriminal group. While the gang had previously targeted Russian banks, Group-IB experts also have discovered evidence of the group’s activity in more than 25 countries worldwide. Group-IB […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2018
Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike have observed a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. Experts from security firm CrowdStrike have uncovered a new campaign associated with the GOBLIN PANDA APT group. The group also knows as Cycldek was first spotted in September 2013, it was mainly targeting entities in Southeast Asia using different malware variants mainly PlugX and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2018
Last week, security researchers from Trend Micro discovered a new threat actor, tracked as Urpage, that shares similarities with other three hacking crews. Researchers from Trend Micro linked a recently discovered actor, tracked as Urpage, to the hacking groups known as Bahamut, Confucius, and Patchwork. Trend Micro first connected the Confucius group to the Patchwork […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2018
Security experts from Securonix have published a report that attributes the attack against on the Cosmos Bank to the Lazarus APT group. Cosmos Bank is one of the largest Indian cooperative banks, it was the victim of a cyberheist a couple of weeks ago when hackers stole over 940 million rupees ($13.5 million) in just three […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2018
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group leveraged for the first time on a MacOS variant of the Fallchill malware in a cryptocurrency exchange attack. According to Kaspersky, the North Korea-linked Lazarus group used a macOS malware to target a cryptocurrency exchange in a recent attack. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2018
Security experts have observed increasing cyber espionage activity related to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The alarm was launched by the experts from cybersecurity firms FireEye and Recorded Future. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a development project for the building of an infrastructure connecting countries in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, Europe, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2018
According to Dragos firm, the RASPITE cyber-espionage group (aka Leafminer) has been targeting organizations in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and East Asia. Researchers from security firm Dragos reported that a group operating out of Iran tracked as RASPITE has been targeting entities in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and East Asia, industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos warns. The group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2018
Hackers belonging an Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ have targeted government and various organizations in the Middle East. An Iran-linked APT group tracked as ‘Leafminer’ has targeted government and businesses in the Middle. According to the experts from Symantec, the Leafminer group has been active at least since early 2017. “Symantec has uncovered the operations of a threat actor named […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 24, 2018
The US Government is warning of continuous intrusions in National critical infrastructure and it is blaming the Kremlin for the cyber attacks. According to the US Department of Homeland Security, Russia’s APT groups have already penetrated America’s critical infrastructure, especially power utilities, and are still targeting them. These attacks could have dramatic consequence, an attack against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2018
Researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec analyzed a new collection of malware allegedly part of a new espionage campaign conducted by the APT28 group. It was a long weekend for the researchers from the Z-Lab at CSE Cybsec that completed the analysis a number of payloads being part of a new cyber espionage campaign […]
