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Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2012

The good and the bad of the Deep Web

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – September Edition “Security in a serious way” Introduction The Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines, according a raw estimation of some security experts clear web represents only a small portion of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2012

Microsoft distrupts Nitol botnet, malware hidden in supply chain

The malware diffusion is assuming dimension difficult to control, no matter if we are facing with a state-sponsored attack or with a cyber scam, malicious agents are around us, they have infected a huge quantity of machines with dramatic consequences. But what’s happen if we discover the malware inside the controller of ordinary object that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2012

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Today I desire to discuss on the real effect of a cyber attack, we have recently introduced the direct and indirect effects of the several cyber espionage campaigns discovered such as Flame and Gauss, but we never approached the problem in future projection examining the possible impacts of an incident many years after it. Symantec […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2012

Dangerous waves of malware are transforming cyberspace in a jungle

The cyberspace is becoming a jungle of malware, a place where the danger is just around the corner. Governments, cyber criminals, hacktivist and terrorist are focusing their activities in the new domain due this reason we are assisting to the born of new agents and very sophisticated attack tools. In a parallel manner is lowering […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2012

Wiper, assumptions and difficulties analyzing a malware

During last April many press agencies and security firms published a story related to the detection of a new malware, named Wiper that attacked computers at businesses throughout Iran. Kaspersky Lab and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) investigated on the event trying to isolate the malware and analyze it. During the investigation the team of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 28, 2012

U.S. admit cyber attacks.Who will decide in future conflict,humans or machines?

The U.S. are one of the most advanced country under cyber warfare perspective, we have read a lot on its capabilities and its offensive power, to remark some sample we can remind the plan-X project and the development of the cyber weapon Stuxnet. We all imagine that the U.S. are still really active in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2012

Botnet around us, are we nodes of the Matrix?

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – August Edition “Botnet” Introduction The nightmare of millions of infected computers synchronized to conduct an attack on specific target finds materialization in the concept of botnet. In the classic architecture each machine, named bot, executes orders sent by a master unit called bootmaster, which can instruct the various […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2012

How Israel will attack Iran? Is it reality or imagination?

We have long discussed the possibility of an Israeli attack against Iran, security experts have long sought leave signs that presage an imminent attack trying to figure out how I can take it. We all know about the potential of Israeli military, a war machine that could scare the big of the planet and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2012

Gauss, evidence of ongoing cyber-war and cyber espionage campaigns

As expected a new malware for purposes of cyber espionage was once again identified by the Team of Kaspersky Lab. After Duqu, Flame and Mahdi a new cyber-espionage toolkit has been detected in the same region, the Middle East, and like its predecessor is capable of stealing sensitive data such as online banking credentials, browser passwords and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2012

Malware & cyber espionage, ongoing attacks on sensitive information

Malware once were used primarily to destroy the victim’s PC, but the scenario has completely changed today. While surviving the need of wanting to harm with malicious software, for example in the development of cyber weapons, the current trend is to develop agents that serve primarily to the function of spying. Cybercrime, governments, and groups […]

Cyber warfare

The good and the bad of the Deep Web

Microsoft distrupts Nitol botnet, malware hidden in supply chain

Elderwood project, who is behind Op. Aurora and ongoing attacks?

Dangerous waves of malware are transforming cyberspace in a jungle

Wiper, assumptions and difficulties analyzing a malware

U.S. admit cyber attacks.Who will decide in future conflict,humans or machines?

Botnet around us, are we nodes of the Matrix?

How Israel will attack Iran? Is it reality or imagination?

Gauss, evidence of ongoing cyber-war and cyber espionage campaigns

Malware & cyber espionage, ongoing attacks on sensitive information

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