Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2015
TheRealDeal black Marketplace Offers Zero-Day Exploits

A new deep web marketplace dubbed TheRealDeal has appeared and it is offering a platform for both sellers and buyers of the zero-day exploits. The anonymity ensured by the Dark Web and black markets it hosts is an element of attractive for cyber criminal and intelligence agencies. Black markets offer a wide range of illegal products and services, despite normal people believes that drugs and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015
APT30 behind a long-running cyber espionage campaign

Researchers at FireEye uncovered a new threat actor dubbed APT30 that run a decade-long cyber espionage campaign backed by the Chinese Government. Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a new long-running cyber espionage campaign, the researchers speculate that the campaign is active since at least 2005. The threat actor behind the campaign was dubbed APT30 by the researchers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2015
Did the attackers hack TV5Monde with the Kjw0rm Remote Access Trojan?

A new hypothesis on the attack that compromised the French TV station TV5Monde: Hackers of the Cyber Caliphate team used the Kjw0rm Remote Access Trojan. The cyber attacks against the French TV5Monde Channel that resulted in the network take over and the hijacking of social media account of the broadcaster is focusing the attention of the media. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2015
ISIS hackers belonging Cyber Caliphate team overtake French TV5Monde

Members of the ISIS Cyber Caliphate hacking crew attacked French TV network TV5Monde on Wednesday evening disrupting the broadcast of its TV channels. The French TV Channel TV5Monde was targeted by a serious cyber attack on Wednesday that compromised broadcasting of transmissions across its medium.the attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2015
Snowden keeps saying that US is still catching our emails

The British television host scored a rare one-on-one interview in Moscow with Edward Snowden for the Sunday’s edition of the “John Oliver Tonight” show. A British channel hosted a rare interview with Snowden in Moscow, the interview was conducted by John Oliver from “John Oliver Tonight.” Aside from jokes like “Do you miss a hot […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2015
How SEA hacked email accounts of Assad’s opponents

Motherboard published an interesting report on an espionage campaign led by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against the opponents of the Syrian Government. Today I decided to present a very interesting story published by Lorenzo Francesco Bicchierai on Motherboard. It is a story about intelligence activities and how hacking supported them. Let’s start from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2015
Anonymous vigilantes are fighting against the ISIS propaganda

The New York Times reported that a group of hackers is interfering with the activities made through social media by members of the ISIS group. According to The New York Times hackers are targeting accounts used by ISIS members for propaganda and recruit new sympathizers. A group of hackers using the pseudonyms of TouchMyTweets, The Doctor and IS Hunting are targeting suspected ISIS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015
Slides reveal Canadian CSE secret hacking capabilities

The last collection of top-secret slides leaked by Snowden and disclosed by media agencies reveal the hacking capabilities and platforms of Canadian CSE. The last collection of top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, and published by The Intercept  and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,  leaked documents reveal the Canadians are a dab hand at cyber-stuff, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2015
ISIS cell calls on supporters to kill 100 US military personnel

A cell of the ISIS has called on its members and backers in the US to kill 100 service members whose names, photos and addresses it posted online. The ISIS continues to scare the West, its operations are supported by a very aggressive media campaign that shares proclamations and recruit new followers in the name […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2015
Researchers developed a new powerful BIOS Bootkit that exploits BIOS flaws

Security researchers developed a new BIOS bootkit that exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities. The experts will present their study to the CanSecWest. BIOS bootkits are a reality despite there is little evidence of BIOS implants in the wild. The BIOS bootkits was mentioned when Snowden disclosed the catalog of surveillance tools used by the NSA ANT division, these malicious malware are […]