Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2015
Seaduke, another weapon in the Duke arsenal

Security researchers at Symantec have analyzed Seaduke, a sophisticated Trojan used by threat actors behind the “Duke” malware family. Security experts at Symantec security firm have analyzed the Trojan.Seaduke, a malware that was used by the APT group behind the Duke espionage campaigns that targeted numerous government organizations worldwide. The Seaduke has many similarities with other […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Hacking Team supported Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed how the Italian firm supported the Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack. We are following day by day the evolution of the recent Hacking Team hack, the hackers posted online 400 GB of source code, company emails and documents, a treasure for hackers, cyber spies and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 17 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30 Million records Cisco Unified CDM platform open to cyber attacks Argentine finds messenger to shoot after e-vote vuln allegations […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2015
OPM hack results in 21.5 million people being exposed to an unknown party

After revelations in June about the hack to the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), now it’s time to clarify and explain the extent of the data breach. After the disclosure in June about the hack to the US Office of Personnel Management (OPM), now was time to clarify and explain the extent of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2015
Hacking Team Zero-Day tied to attacks In Korea and Japan

Security experts at Trend Micro revealed that one of the exploits discovered in the Hacking Team package tied to Attacks In Korea and Japan. Following the recent hack of the popular surveillance firm Hacking Team, the experts started the analysis of the material leaked online by the attackers. The package leaked online include also a number […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2015
Linux, Apache, MySQL is all that evil XKeyscore needs to control the world

According to new revelations of the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden the powerful spying machine XKEYSCORE runs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In August 2013, Edward Snowden revealed the existence if a tool named DNI Presenter that allows the Agency to read the content of stored emails, and it also enables the intelligence analysts to tool collects […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 03, 2015
Wikileaks: NSA spying on top German officials for economic reasons

Wikileaks reveals an extended economic espionage activity conducted by the NSA in Germany, the spies were particularly interested in the Greek debt crisis. Recently we spoke about the last collection of data disclosed by Wikileaks on NSA massive surveillance, highlighting the cyber espionage operations of the US intelligence against principal security firms and the France politicians, today we […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2015
Dino Malware that targeting Iran belong to Animal Farm’s arsenal

Researchers at ESET analyzed the Dino malware confirming that the sophisticated espionage platform belongs to the arsenal of the Animal Farm APT. Security experts at ESET have analyzed Dino, a sophisticated platform used by the Animal Farm ATP group. Earlier this year, security researchers discovered two powerful malware, dubbed Babar and Casper, likely developed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2015
NSA spied on French Presidents, Ministers and Top companies

French journal Liberation and Medialpart revealed that the NSA spied on two of France’s economy ministers and spied on the country’s largest enterprises. According to National media that cited Wikileaks as the source, the NSA spied on French Economy Ministers and France enterprises. The French journal Liberation and Medialpart, earlier this week, revealed that the NSA had spied […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2015
Cyber espionage – Russia and China are targeting British Companies and Others

Ongoing incidents have brought to light the power of both Russia and China in the field of cyber espionage. Their experts have continuously targeted the US and the British, including Governmental sources and esteemed companies. It is no surprise that cyber espionage has been growing larger and larger. Significant players come from Russia and China, […]