Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2019
Security expert uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign targeting organizations in various industries worldwide and suspects Iranian APT groups. Security experts at FireEye uncovered a DNS hijacking campaign that is targeting government agencies, ISPs and other telecommunications providers, Internet infrastructure entities, and sensitive commercial organizations in the Middle East, North Africa, North America and Europe. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2018
The US Department of Justice charged two Chinese hackers for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries, US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign. including Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The two Chinese hackers, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2018
Researchers at Palo Alto Networks discovered that the Russian-linked Sofacy APT has written a new version of their Zebrocy backdoor using the Go programming language. The Sofacy APT group has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2018
Security experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a new espionage campaign carried out by Russia-Linked APT group Sofacy. Russian Cyber espionage group Sofacy (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium)) carried out a new cyber campaign aimed at government agencies in four continents in an attempt to infect them with malware. The campaign has been focusing on Ukraine and NATO […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2018
McAfee uncovered a campaign tracked as Operation Sharpshooter that hit at least 87 organizations in global defense and critical infrastructure. Security experts at McAfee uncovered a hacking campaign, tracked as Operation Sharpshooter, aimed at infrastructure companies worldwide. The threat actors are using malware associated with Lazarus APT group that carried out Sony Pictures attack back in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2018
‘ The Seedworm APT Group has targeted more than 130 victims in 30 organizations since September including NGOs, oil and gas, and telecom businesses. According to a new research conducted from Symantec’s DeepSight Managed Adversary and ThreatIntelligence (MATI) team, the Seedworm APT group, aka MuddyWater, is rapidly evolving and extended its targets to the telecom, IT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2018
STOLEN PENCIL campaign – North Korea-linked APT group has been targeting academic institutions since at least May of this year. North Korea-linked threat actors are targeting academic institutions with spear phishing attacks. The phishing messages include a link to a website where a decoy document that attempts to trick users into installing a malicious Google Chrome […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2018
Malware researchers at Yoroi – Cybaze Z-Lab analyzed the MuddyWater Infection Chain observed in a last wave of cyber attacks. Introduction At the end of November, some Middle East countries have been targeted by a new wave of attacks related to the Iranian APT group known as âMuddyWaterâ: their first campaign was observed back in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2018
Russia-linked cyber-espionage group Sofacy, (aka APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) use BREXIT lures in recent attacks. The APT group used Brexit-themed bait documents on the same day the UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced the initial BREXIT draft agreement with the European Union (EU). “As the United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Theresa May announced the initial BREXIT draft agreement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2018
Security researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered PowerShell-based backdoor that resembles a malware used by MuddyWater threat actor. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a Powershell-based backdoor that is very similar to a malware used by MuddyWater APT group. The first MuddyWater campaign was observed in late 2017, then researchers from Palo Alto Networks were investigating a mysterious wave […]
