Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2015
For the first time China has publicly admitted the existence in its military organization of special information warfare units. Since quite some time that security experts sustain that China has one of the most advanced cyber army that is responsible for carried some of the highest profile cyber-attacks, but the Government of Beijing China always […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2015
According to a US Lawmaker North Korea Internet outage occurred in December could be a response for the cyber attack against the Sony Pictures On December 2014, the North Korea suffered a significant network outage which isolated the country from the internet. Security experts speculated that the incident was a retaliation for the Sony hack. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
Hacker who posted online information on Nuclear Plants in South Korea demands money for not selling other sensitive information to other governments. The Government of Seoul has issued a report blaming North Korea for cyber attacks against computers at Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
71 percent of organizations were victims of successfully cyber attacks in 2014 according to the â2015 Cyberthreat Defense Reportâ report. The CyberEdge Group published an interesting report, titled â2015 Cyberthreat Defense Reportâ that in line with similar studies confirms the increase in the number of successful cyber attacks against organizations. The report analyzed data provided by 814 organizations, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
DHS ICS-CERT MONITOR report reveals that most critical infrastructure attacks involve APTs, but organizations lack monitoring capabilities. The DHSâs Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued its new ICS-CERT MONITOR report related to the period September 2014 â February 2015. The ICS-CERT MONITOR report According to the report, the Industrial Control Systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2015
Experts at Kaspersky Lab published a detailed analysis of the EquationDrug platform and its modules developed by the Equation Group APT. Recently experts at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered the Equation Group hacking crew, the most sophisticated ever APT. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the capabilities of the Equation Group surpass anything known in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2015
Federal officials announced that military received the green light to hire 3,000 cyber experts to assign to the US Cyber Command. Information warfare is strategic for almost every government, North Korea, Russia, China, Danmark are among the countries that are more investing to improve their cyber capabilities, and of course, the Five Eyes. The US Department of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2015
A newly disclosed secret report illustrates the tightening of cyber dispute between the United States and Iran , both for spying and sabotage. Since Robert Tappan Morris in 1988 created the first worm, cyberspace started to change its virtual state in a critical cyberwar field. Even if the first worm was an error, aimed at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2015
North Korea holds an impressive army of cyber warriors, with over 3,000 sophisticated professionals. According to the claims of people who have escaped to South Korea, their main target is none other than Western infrastructure of critical value. Over 3,000 cyber experts have been recruited by North Korea, in the countryâs attempt to harm the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2015
The cyber security expert Ashiq JA analyzed the principal characteristics of APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) and AVT (Advanced Volatile Threat) . Cybercriminals and their techniques in the APT and AVT attacks âAPT is an attack in the persistent memory that resides in the victims machine without getting noticed and the attacker exfiltrates sensitive information from […]
