Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2021
China-linked threat actors UNC215 targeted Israeli organizations in a long-running campaign and used false flags to trick victims into believing the attacks was from Iran. A China-linked cyber-espionage group has targeted Israeli organizations and government institutions in a campaign that began in January 2019. The attacks were detailed by cybersecurity firm Mandiant, the state-sponsored hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2021
China linked APT groups have targeted networks of at least five major telecommunications companies operating in Southeast Asia since 2017. Cybereason researchers identified three clusters of activity associated with China-linked threat actors that carried out a series of attacks against networks of at least five major telecommunications companies located in South Asia since 2017. “The goal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 31, 2021
Microsoft Office 365 email accounts of employees at 27 US Attorneys’ offices were breached by the Russia-linked SVR group as part of the SolarWinds hack, DoJ warns. The US Department of Justice revealed that the Microsoft Office 365 email accounts of employees at 27 US Attorneys’ offices were hacked by the Russia-linked SVR (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes) during the SolarWinds attack. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2021
The recent attack against Iranâs national railway system was caused by a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not by a ransomware as initially thought. According to research from Amnpardaz and SentinelOne, the recent attack against Iranâs national railway system was caused by a wiper malware dubbed Meteor and not by ransomware as initially thought. Meteor was a previously undetected strain of malware, but experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2021
The US government is offering a $10 million reward to everyone that provides information on operations conducted by nation-state actors. The US government is offering a $10 million reward for information on campaigns conducted by state-sponsored hackers. The move was announced by the U.S. Department of State, the US agency states that its Rewards for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2021
Microsoft attributes the recent attacks that have targeted SolarWinds file transfer servers to a China-linked APT group that the experts tracked as DEV-0322. Microsoft said that the recent attacks against SolarWinds file transfer servers were carried out by a Chinese hacking group tracked as DEV-0322. This week SolarWinds addressed a zero-day remote code execution flaw (CVE-2021-35211) in Serv-U products which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2021
US and UK cybersecurity agencies said the Russia-linked APT28 group is behind a series of large-scale brute-force attacks.US and UK cybersecurity agencies said today that a Russian military cyber unit has been behind a series of brute-force attacks that have targeted the cloud IT resources of government and private sector companies across the world. US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2021
Russia-linked threat actors compromised Denmarkâs central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and remained in its systems for months. Russia-linked threat actors infected the systems of Denmarkâs central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and maintained access to its network for more than six months. The security breach is the result of the SolarWinds supply chain attack that was carried out […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2021
Microsoft discovered that Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, tracked as Nobelium, have breached the network of three new organizations. Microsoft revealed on Friday that Russia-linked SolarWinds hackers, tracked as Nobelium or APT29, have conducted new cyber attacks against other organizations. Threat actors carried out brute-force and password spraying attacks in an attempt to gain access to Microsoft customer accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2021
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Poland Law and Justice party, blames Russia for the recent cyberattack targeting top Polish politicians. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Poland Law and Justice party (PiS), blames Russia for the recent cyberattack that targeted top Polish politicians. Last week, Polandâs parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks […]
