Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2015
A new collection of documents leaked by Snowden revealed how the US intelligence converts spoken conversation in indexable text with RHINEHART and VoiceRT tools. Following the disclosure of Top-secret documents provided by Edward Snowden everyone is aware of the risks of using any sort of communications methods, what was once private now it isn’t anymore, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2015
Experts at Trustwave observed a group of cyber criminals helping spread pro-Russia propaganda by inflating video views with a malvertising campaign. Security experts at Trustwave have discovered a botnet, originally designed for malvertising purpose, used redirect unaware users to view some pro-Russian videos on the website DailyMotion. The event is very interesting due to the political motivation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2015
Foreign hackers are targeting background investigation databases to blackmail US government personnel or to try to bribe them. It is not a mystery that Chinese hackers continuously target US companies and government offices, the attackers usually backed by the Government of Bejing mainly run cyber espionage campaigns to steal intellectual property and any kind of information related to person […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2015
The Time revealed that Russian hackers have accessed President Barack Obama emails in the attack on the White House’s unclassified computer system. Earlier this month, US officials admitted there was a cyber “event” late last year, but refused to confirm reports Russia was behind the attack. New revelations on the attack against the unclassified network […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2015
The Dark Web email service SIGAINT suffered a major attack that involved 70 exit nodes, a circumstance that suggests Government operation. Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies are always involved in the infiltration of Darknets and related services with the primary intent to monitor bad actors and de-anonymize users. The Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT is one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2015
According new revelations published by the Der Spiegel the German intelligence agency BND helped NSA in monitoring European politicians. We discussed several times of the aggressive cyber espionage campaigns run by the US intelligence and its allies of Five Eyes (Canada, UK, New Zeland, Australia and, of course, the US). The Intelligence targeted private companies and entities worldwide in order to establish a dominance in the cyberspace. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2015
Security experts at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA Quantum Insert attacks and have published an interesting post on the hacking practice. Security researchers at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA hacking activity operated through the Quantum Insert-style hacks. The team of experts has published free open-source tools to detect duplicate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2015
Operation Pawn Storm allegedly run by hackers backed by the Russian Government still advancing their infrastructure a great deal, the group is believed to using advanced tactics to hit the targets. Trend Micro revealed that the group have introduced all new infrastructure and is “Zeroing in” onto the targets that include NATO (North Atlantic Treaty […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2015
FireEye recently detected a new highly targeted attack run by APT28 exploiting two zero-day flaws to compromise an “international government entity”. Security experts at FireEye have recently detected a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed “Operation RussianDoll,” operated by the Russian APT28 group. This time the hackers run highly targeted attack by exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities to target an “international […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2015
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 […]
