Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2017
The Russia-linked cyber espionage group known as Turla has been using a new piece of JavaScript malware to profile victims, Kaspersky Lab reported on Thursday. Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage ATP group (also known as Waterbug, Venomous Bear and KRYPTON) that has been active since at least 2007 targeting government organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2017
Dutch Government announced that all ballots in the election next month will be counted by hand in order to avoid any interference due to cyber attacks. Recent US 2016 Presidential Election has given the world an important lesson, foreign hackers are a dangerous threat even for democracy. Recently Franche Defense Minister Le Drian comments expressed concerns […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2017
A nation state actor could be behind the security breach suffered by the Czech Foreign Ministry, experts are investigating the case. On Tuesday the Czech Foreign Minister Lubomir Zaoralek announced that threat actors have breached dozens of email accounts at the Czech Foreign Ministry. Zaoralek added that the cyber-attacks were likely conducted by a foreign state, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2017
Security experts at PaloAlto Networks have observed a new campaign that has been launched by a cyber espionage group known as Gaza Cybergang. Security experts at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign conducted by the Gaza Cybergang hacker group, also known as “Gaza Hackers Team” and “Molerats.” On September 2015, security experts at Kaspersky Lab observed an increase […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2017
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security intelligence and research group.discovered a sophisticated spear phishing campaign on NATO Governments. Security experts at Cisco Talos are warning of a new sophisticated espionage campaign targeting NATO Governments with specially designed documents used to deliver Flash exploits. The campaign started during the Christmas and New Year holidays, the hackers used Word document […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2017
The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, which are possible political and technological scenarios behind the recent wave of attacks? The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, a new version called Shamoon 2 was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks. Saudi Arabia Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)’s Abdulrahman al-Friah confirmed to Al Arabiya that at least 22 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2017
Saudi Arabia is warning organizations in the country of a resurrection of the dreaded Shamoon malware. A new strain of the Shamoon 2 malware was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks, this variant targets virtualization products. Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, was first spotted in a wave of attacks that targeted companies in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Among the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2017
Ukrenergo confirmed that preliminary results of its investigation showed that the Ukraine power outage that occurred in December was caused by hackers. In December 2016, the Government Ukraine energy company Ukrenergo suffered a severe power outage that affected the ”North” substation at Pivnichna. The incident caused blackouts in the city of Kyiv and neighboring regions. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2017
The ShadowBrokers hacking group that broke into the NSA arsenal and stole its hacking tools is signing off, leaving a gift to the security community. The mysterious hacking group calling themselves “The Shadow Brokers” has apparently decided to put an end to their failed attempts to sell exploits and hacking tools they claimed to have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2017
Defense Minister Le Drian comments expressed concerns about cyber attacks against defense systems and warns of hacking campaigns on the upcoming elections. According to the Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian France defense was targeted by thousands of attacks in 2016. France thwarted more than 24,000 cyber attacks against Defence systems last year. The Minister confirmed that thousands […]
