Cyber warfare

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2013
New wave of cyber attacks from Iran hit US

New cyber attacks from Iran hit US enterprises focusing on energy sector, the offensive has been revealed by American officials and private security experts. A new series of cyber attacks from Iran hit US enterprises, the offensive has been revealed by American officials and private security experts. The attacks are classified as “potentially destructive” and targeted IT […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2013
Zero-day market, the governments are the main buyers

Governments, and in particular US one, are principal buyers of zero-day vulnerabilities according a report published by Reuters. Zero-days exploits are considered a primary ingredient for success of a cyber attack, the knowledge of zero-day flaw gives to the attacker guarantee of success, state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals consider zero-day exploits a precious resources around […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2013
China vs US mutual accusations, the cyber cold war is begun

China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2013
Verizon, large scale cyber espionage from China and much more

Verizon has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Verizon’s RISK Team, in collaboration with other 18 partners, has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Since 2008 the company yearly publishes data related to principal incidents occurred during […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2013
US army discloses budget for cyber operations

It’s not a mystery, every state despite the spending review on the military budget is continuing to reserve consistent investment in cyber security, in particular majority of states is pushing research and development activities on both defense and offense cyber capabilities. US is one of the most advanced country in cyber warfare, the US Government was one […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2013
Anonymous #OpIsrael, use of botnets & hypothesis on attackers

We all remember the debated attacks of Anonymous collective against Israeli government that targeted various websites of the country last April 7th. The data on the cyber attacks reported by Israel government are really different from the one provided by the group of hacktivists in the damage report for #OpIsrael that account for a Total […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2013
The role of hacktivism in cyber warfare scenario between 2 Koreas

It’s not a surprise South Korean security experts suggest that the North Korea military is training an elite force of “cyber warriors” to involve in cyber attacks against South institutions and companies. The South intelligence revelations follow continuous menaces of North Korea against U.S. Forces located in the Far East, the dictator Kim Jong-UN enhances […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2013
vSkymmer botnet, a financial malware appears in the underground

The principal reports proposed by various security firm demonstrate a sustained growth of cyber criminal activities fueled by increased offer of underground. In the underground it is practically possible to acquire/sell any kind of product and services to realize illegal activities. The offer is complete and include programming and hacking services, bulletproof-hosting services, cyber attacks on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2013
Multiplatform Wiper widespread in attacks against South Korea

Recently South Korea has been hit by powerful cyber attack malware based, network provided by LG UPlus Corp was hacked by a group calling itself the “Whois Team”. The attack targeted also media and banking of the country, television networks YTN, MBC and KBS and Shinhan Bank and NongHyup Bank, two major banks of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2013
NATO works to define rules for cyber warfare

Recent explosion of cyber attacks worldwide demonstrating the difficulty to maintain order and stability in the cyberspace, within individual states and among the states themselves. Deterrence strategies adopted by almost all countries are inadequate, cyber warfare need a totally new approach that exceed geopolitical order to mitigate the explosion of cyber threats in the fifth domain. The […]