Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2015
Documents leaked by Edward Snowden show the NSA and the GCHQ efforts to compromise security software companies including Kaspersky Lab. A new collection of documents leaked by the popular whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals that both UK and US government intelligence agencies are targeting principal security firms and security companies. Kaspersky Lab calls nation-states’ targeting of security companies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2015
WikiLeaks on Thursday released 276,394 new files from the Sony Pictures hack, the documents demonstrates the influence of the company on US the Gov. WikiLeaks added more 276,394 documents to its search page, these documents were acquired when the alleged group of North Korean hackers GOP hacked the Sony network. The first documents were published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2015
Experts say the cyber attack on the German Bundestag alleged began with the compromise of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal computer. I have written many posts regarding a recent attack against the German Bundestag with caused a major data breach. We discussed the possibility that the cyber attack against the German Parliament was coordinated by Russian state-sponsored hackers that spread a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2015
Russia and China have hacked the secret cache of files stolen by the Edward Snowden, forcing the British intelligence to pull agents out of live operations. Russia and China have hacked the secret cache of files stolen by the Edward Snowden, forcing the British intelligence to pull agents out of live operations. The British Sunday Times revealed that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 15, 2015
Government records stolen in the recent data breach at the US OPM (Office of Personnel Management) are surfacing from the Dark Web. While security experts speculate on the possible responsible for the recent data breach at US the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the alleged data appeared in the dark web. I have personally found it on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2015
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. The silent war between black markets in the deep web US Air Force located an ISIS command by analyzing a selfie A quick tour in the hacking black market […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2015
German media states that Bundestag may need to replace 20,000 computers after the recent attack, an operation that could cost millions Euro. A few days ago the experts the German Government has confirmed that hackers who breached the Bundestag systems a few of weeks ago have also stolen data from targeted network. A spokeswoman for the Bundestag, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2015
Threat actors used a Duqu 2.0 worm in a series of attacks worldwide that also breached the systems at Kaspersky Lab. It is most complex malware ever seen. A new powerful strain of Duqu malware, dubbed Duqu 2.0, appeared in the wild after going dark in 2012. Duqu 2.0 is a very sophisticated agent that exploited a number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2015
FireEye speculates that behind the hack of France’s TV5Monde television channel there is the popular APT28 that used the pseudonymous ISIS Cyber Caliphate. Security experts involved in the investigation on the hack of France’s TV5Monde television channel revealed that behind the pseudonym of ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” there were Russian hackers. “Russian hackers posing as the ISIS “Cyber Caliphate” […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2015
Belgian law enforcement exploited end-to-end encryption gaps in WhatsApp to intercept messages exchanged between members of a Chechen jihadist group. According to a report published by Bloomberg, two men were arrested and warrants were issued for other three suspects that were allegedly preparing a terrorist attack in Belgium. The interesting part of the news is that law […]
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