Cyber warfare

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2017
Trump signed a bill prohibiting the use of Kaspersky Lab product and services

The US President Donald Trump signed a bill that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab products and services in federal agencies. Section 1634 of the bill prohibits the use of security software and services provided by security giant Kaspersky Lab, the ban will start from October 1, 2018. Below the details of the ban included in the section […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2017
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s letter warns against software made in hostile states, specifically Russia

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of supply chain risk in cloud-based products, including antivirus (AV) software developed by Russia. We have a long debated the ban of the Russian security software from US Government offices, now part of the UK intelligence is adopting the same strategy. Last week the CEO of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2017
Kaspersky case – Now we know who is the NSA hacker who kept Agency’s cyber weapons at home

A former NSA hacker pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian cyber spies. A member of the US National Security Agency Tailored Access Operations hacking team, Nghia Hoang Pho (67) pleaded guilty in a US district court in Baltimore on Friday to one count of willful retention of national defense […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
US indicts Chinese hackers belonging to APT3 for espionage on Siemens and Moody’s

US authorities have filed official charges against three Chinese hackers part of the elite cyber-espionage unit APT3. US authorities charged three China-based hackers for stealing sensitive information from US based companies, including Siemens AG, and accessing a high-profile email account at Moody’s. The three Chinese citizens, Wu Yingzhuo, Dong Hao and Xia Lei, work for the Chinese cybersecurity company […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2017
Advanced cyber attack hits Saudi Arabia to disrupt government computers

Saudi Arabia announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom with the intent to disrupt government computers. On Monday, Saudi authorities announced to have detected an “advanced” cyber attack targeting the kingdom. According to the experts at the Saudi National Cyber Security Centre, the attackers aimed to disrupt government computers. The attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2017
Kaspersky provided further details on NSA Incident. Other APTs targeted the same PC

Kaspersky Lab publishes a full technical report related to hack of its antivirus software to steal NSA hacking code. In October, anonymous source claimed that in 2015 the Russian intelligence stole NSA cyber weapons from the PC of one of its employees that was running the Kaspersky antivirus. Kaspersky denies any direct involvement and provided further details […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2017
Microsoft president urges a digital Geneva Convention, we agree

Microsoft president Brad Smith appeared before the UN in Geneva to talk about the urgency of a digital Geneva Convention. Microsoft president Brad Smith appeared before the UN in Geneva to talk about the role of nation-state actors in the threat landscape. We are assisting a growing number of nation-state cyber attacks, for this reason, cybersecurity […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2017
Vault 8 – WikiLeaks releases source code for CIA Hive malware control platform

Wikileaks released the first batch of documents starting with the source code and development logs of the Project Hive. Today the popular whistleblower organization Wikileaks announced a new Vault 8 series that shed the light on the source code and the hacking infrastructure developed by the CIA. Anyone can access the source code and analyze […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2017
Vietnamese APT32 group is one of the most advanced APTs in the threat landscape

According to the incident response firm Volexity, Vietnamese APT32 group is today one of the most advanced APTs in the threat landscape According to the incident response firm Volexity, the cyber espionage campaigns associated with a group operating out of Vietnam and tracked as tracked as OceanLotus and APT32 have become increasingly sophisticated. Researchers at Volexity has been tracking the threat actor since […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2017
US DoJ Identifies at least 6 Russian Government officials Involved in DNC hack

The United States Department of Justice has gathered evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials involved in the 2016 DNC hack. The United States Department of Justice has gathered evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials involved in the DNC hack during the 2016 Presidential election. In the past months, US intelligence blamed […]