Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2016
What about cyber security issues discussed during the NATO members during the Warsaw summit held in Poland on 8 and 9 July 2016. At the Warsaw Summit this weekend NATO, as anticipated weeks ago, the alliance has officially recognised cyberspace as a military operational domain. This means that the NATO alliance will respond with conventional […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2016
Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign launched to spread a Facebook malware that infected more than 10,000 users in just two days. Security experts from Kaspersky monitored a phishing campaign that hit Israeli media since June 26th. Thousands of Facebook users reported that they had been infected by a malware spread through the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2016
Russian cyber spies belonging to the Pawn Storm APT group have targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals worldwide. The Pawn Storm APT group is once again in the headlines, this time the hackers targeted a significant number of Google accounts belonging to individuals in Russia, former Soviet Union countries, the United States, Europe. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2016
According to the experts from FireEye attacks from China against the US started declining in mid-2014 and has continued to decrease, why? Earlier this week, FireEye released a report showing a significant decline in cyber-attacks originating from China. According to the report, the attacks started declining in mid-2014 and has continued. According to FireEye, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2016
The NATO has officially declared cyberspace a warfare domain and confirmed that a cyberattack on any of its allies will be considered as an act of war. NATO officially recognizes the cyberspace as the fifth domain of a warfare so it could respond with conventional weapons in case of a powerful cyber attack. A cyberattack on one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
A hacker using the pseudonymous Guccifer 2.0, claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Yesterday, we blogged about the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that led a dossier of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. According to the US-based cyber security company CrowdStrike, two sophisticated Russian espionage groups, COZY […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2016
The Government of Seoul reported that North Korean Hackers stole defense-related documents and photos from two South Korean companies. The news that North Korean hackers have stolen thousands of records from private firms and state agencies in the South Korea is not new. In the last wave of attacks, the North Korean hackers have stolen […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2016
The Analysis of SWIFT attacks revealed five additional pieces of malware containing portions of code shared by Lazarus Group. While security experts continue to investigate the cyber heists that involved SWIFT systems, new evidence collected by a senior security researcher from Anomali Labs link the malware to the North Korean hacker crew known as Lazarus Group. The expert discovered that five […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2016
Security experts from Melani published a detailed technical report about the strain of Turla used in the cyberespionage attack against the RUAG firm. A few weeks ago I reported about the cyber espionage attack on the Swiss Defense Department that was revealed after a presentation on cyber espionage to the Federal Intelligence Service. The cyber attack […]
