Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
APT32 is a new APT group discovered by security experts at FireEye that is targeting Vietnamese interests around the globe. The APT32 group, also known as OceanLotus Group, has been active since at least 2013, according to the experts it is a state-sponsored hacking group. The hackers targeting organizations across multiple industries and have also targeted foreign governments, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2017
In the IT security community several experts start linking the WannaCry ransomware to the Lazarus Group due to similarities in the attack codes. The security researcher at Google Neel Mehta published a mysterious tweet using the #WannaCryptAttribution hashtag. What did he mean? 9c7c7149387a1c79679a87dd1ba755bc @ 0x402560, 0x40F598ac21c8ad899727137c4b94458d7aa8d8 @ 0x10004ba0, 0x10012AA4#WannaCryptAttribution — Neel Mehta (@neelmehta) May 15, 2017 According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2017
WikiLeaks Reveals two distinct malware platforms codenamed AfterMidnight and Assassin used by the CIA operators to target Windows systems. While critical infrastructure worldwide and private organizations were ridiculed by the WannaCry attack, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA documents from the Vault 7 leaks. The new dump included the documentation related to two CIA frameworks used to create […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2017
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2017 address tens security vulnerabilities, including a number of zero-day flaws exploited by Russian APT groups. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for May 2017 fix more than 50 security flaws, including a number of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Russian APT groups. Microsoft released security updates for Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, Office, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 09, 2017
#MacronLeaks – Experts discovered evidence suggesting Russian threat actors behind the hack of French presidential candidate Macron. Who are the hackers that attempted to subvert the final vote of French Presidential Election by targeting the Macron’s campaign? Hackers leaked a 9GB batch of internal documents through the Magnet file-sharing service. The Macron data leakage has happened while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2017
The campaign of the Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted once again by hackers that leaked a 9GB dump of stolen data from its staff. Information warfare and politics are even more strictly correlated. It has happened again, after the DNC hack, hackers have targeted also French presidential elections. The target of the hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2017
According to experts from the Fox-IT firm, the notorious Russian Snake APT group is ready to target also Mac users with a new variant of its malicious code. The sophisticated Russian Snake APT group is back and is leveraging on new malware to target Mac users.The Snake APT group, also known as Turla or Uroburos, has ported its Windows […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2017
The installation of monitoring software has been conducted either by NSA highly sophisticated hacking team or by hackers who leveraged the tools leaked by the Shadow Brokers. Last week, a collection of spy tools allegedly used by the National Security Agency for operations against global targets of interest was leaked online by the underground hacking group, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2017
Malware researchers at security firm ProofPoint reported the Chinese TA459 APT has exploited the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability to target Financial firms. The notorious cyber espionage group tracked as TA459 APT has targeted analysts working at major financial firms using the recently patched  CVE-2017-0199 Microsoft Office vulnerability. Experts at Proofpoint published a detailed analysis of the espionage campaign conducted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2017
Kaspersky is currently monitoring the activities of more than 100 threat actors, from the From Lazarus APT to StoneDrill. According to the experts from KasperskyLab, the infamous Lazarus APT group, aka BlueNoroff, is the most dangerous threat against financial institutions worldwide. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware […]
