Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2015
F-Secure has published an interesting report on the cyber espionage operations conducted by the Dukes APT group, which appears linked to the Kremlin. Security researchers at F-Secure have published an interesting report detailing the cyber espionage operation of a Russian APT group, dubbed the Dukes, the experts speculate the group is backed by the Russian government. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2015
According to a review of federal records obtained by USA Today, the US Department of Energy is among the most targeted government organizations in the US. The US Department of Energy manages information of strategic importance for a potential attacker, it oversees the operations of power grid, nuclear arsenal, and national labs. The data show that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2015
Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 10, 2015
FireEye suspects that the North Korea is responsible for a number of attacks against the South Korea relying a 0day in the South most popular Word processor. Security experts from FireEye speculate that The North Korea has carried out cyber attacks against entities of the South Korea by exploiting a zero-day ( CVE-2015-6585) in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2015
According to a recent report issued by the Mehr news agency, more than 10,000 cyber attacks are detected by Iran every day, mostly from Israel. According to a recent report, more than 10,000 Internet security attacks are detected by cyber security experts in Iran every day, a country that is spending a significant effort to improve […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
ClearSky detected new activity from the Rocket kitten APT group against 550 targets, most of which are located in the Middle East. Cyber espionage nowadays plays an important role in politics, it helps governments to decide their “friends” as well their “enemies”, and the more dependent we are of technology the more Cyber espionage will […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2015
The Obama administration weighs sanctioning China and Russia in response to recent cyber attacks who have exposed sensitive data of the US Govt and US firms. The US Government is considering sanctions against both Russian and Chinese hackers in response to the hacking campaign targeting US entities. The news was reported by several U.S. officials yesterday who […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 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. Who are the Ashley Madison users? Hacking the Iridium network could be very easy Amazon to trash Flash, as browsers walk away Keyless Cars: A New Frontier For Bug […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2015
The experts at EFF organization speculate that Russian State-sponsored hackers belonging the APT 28 group have managed the last EFF Spear phishing Scam. Attackers, alleged to belong to a Russian state-sponsored APT registered a bogus Electronic Frontier Foundation domain earlier this month. The hackers used the name brand of popular privacy watchdog in an attempt to trick […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2015
According to a report published by the Citizen Lab Iranian hackers have elaborated a sophisticated phishing scheme to takeover Gmail accounts. According to a report published by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs, Iranian hackers have elaborated a sophisticated phishing scheme to circumvent security measures that defend Gmail […]
