Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2015
Symantec revealed the existence of 49 new modules of the Regin espionage platform, a circumstance that suggests that its operators are still active. In November 2014, security experts at Symantec have uncovered the backdoor Regin, a highly advanced spying tool used in cyber espionage campaigns against governments and infrastructure operators. The Regin malware has been around […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2015
Security experts at FireEye uncovered a cyber espionage campaign that targeted organizations in India and the Tibetan activists. Security firm FireEye revealed an intense activity of hackers based in China particularly interested in entities and organization linked to the Indian Government as well as in information on Tibetan activists. Also in this case we are dealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. ZigBee-sniffing drone used to map online Internet of Things RollJam, a $30 device to unlock the majority of car doors Tesla tech top dog downs slug of Scotch, increases […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2015
A senior U.S. intelligence official revealed that Chinese hackers have accessed the private emails of “many” top Obama administration officials. According to an official of the US intelligence, Chinese hackers have accessed the private emails of “many” top members of the Obama administration. The news was reported by the NBC News which obtained a top […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
NBC News reported Russian hackers have compromised computers at the Pentagon, an unclassified email system has been shut down in response of the attack. According to the NBC news, US officials have reported that Russia launched a “sophisticated cyberattack” against the Pentagon’s Joint Staff unclassified email system. The unclassified email system has been shut down […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
The Panda Emissary group extensively uses long-running strategic web compromises and relies on whitelists to syphon defence aerospace projects from victims. An alleged Chinese APT group dubbed Panda Emissary (also known as TG-3390) is targeting high-profile governments and organisations searching for defense aerospace projects. Researchers at Dell discovered that the Panda Emissary group used Watering hole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 05, 2015
A Chinese-language Virtual Private Network service provider dubbed Terracotta VPN offers a network of compromised servers as a stealth hacking platform. According RSA Security, a China-based virtual private network (VPN) service provider offers hacking crews a network of compromised servers which can be used to carry out stealth cyber attacks. The attacks appear to be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2015
The NBC News published a secret NSA map reporting the locations of “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacks that resulted in data thefts. The NBC News has published in exclusive a secret NSA map showing the locations of the cyber attacks carried out by Chinese hackers over a five-year period. Every marker in the secret NSA map […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2015
The US will strike back China in response to the recent wave of cyber attacks against Government offices, including the Office of Personnel Management. Recently, the New York Times published an article saying that the president of the United States, Barack Obama took the decision to retaliate against China, after the famous hack of the […]
