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 Denmark’s central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and remained in its systems for months. Russia-linked threat actors infected the systems of Denmark’s 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, Poland’s parliament had a closed-door session to discuss an unprecedented wave of cyberattacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2021
Norway police secret service states said that China-linked APT31 group was behind the 2018 cyberattack on the government’s IT network. Norway’s Police Security Service (PST) said that the China-linked APT31 cyberespionage group was behind the attack that breached the government’s IT network in 2018. The attribution of the attack to the APT31 grouo is based […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2021
North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky allegedly breached South Korea’s atomic research agency KAERI by exploiting a VPN vulnerability. South Korean representatives declared on Friday that North Korea-linked APT group Kimsuky is believed to have breached the internal network of the South Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI). The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI) in Daejeon, South Korea […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2021
TA402 APT group (aka Molerats and GazaHackerTeam) is back after two-month of silence and is targeting governments in the Middle East. The TA402 APT group (aka Molerats and Gaza Cybergang) is back after a two-month of apparent inactivity, it is targeting government institutions in the Middle East and global government entities with interest in the region. MoleRATs is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2021
Russia-linked cyberspies breached the internal network of Dutch police in 2017 while the authorities were investigating the crash of the MH-17. Russia-linked threat actors breached the internal network of Dutch police in 2017 during the investigation into the MH-17 crash. The intrusion was uncovered by AIVD, the Dutch intelligence service, but was not disclosed by […]
