Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2013
NetTraveler, new global cyber espionage campaign from Kaspersky

NetTraveler cyber espionage campaign, revealed by Kaspersky’s team, targeted over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. NetTraveler, this is the name of a new global cyber espionage campaign revealed  by researchers at Kaspersky, the team of experts discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2013
ThinThread spy system secretly tested on New Zealand population

The author Tim Shorrock revealed that the US spy system ThinThread was tested on the unsuspecting population of New Zealand from 2000 to 2001 ThinThread is the name of a project that the National Security Agency conducted during the 1990s, the program was focused on sophisticated techniques for wiretapping and intelligence analysis. The program was discontinued after […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2013
US Air Force notice on military use of social media

US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of  social media platforms for computer network exploitation. In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2013
Apple decrypts seized iPhones for law enforcement

Apple can “bypass the security software” if it chooses, accoring ATF no law enforcement agency could unlock a defendant’s iPhone except Apple that has created a police waiting list because of high demand. Apple is considered an impregnable fortress, the main functions provided by the iOS operating system and related data are inaccessible to ill-intentioned but […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2013
NSA published a book on Intelligence through Google for its cyber spies

Google is a mine of information that could be used for various purposes, for this reason National Security Agency realized a book to help its spies uncover intelligence hiding on the web. Few days ago I published an interested article inspired by security expert Dancho Danchev and focused on the use of Google Dorks based tool […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2013
China vs US mutual accusations, the cyber cold war is begun

China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks. China and US governments continue to exchange accusations about the continuing incursions into the respective national networks, the cyber attacks are mainly motivated by sabotage and cyber espionage purposes and are increasing exponentially. US government and intelligence agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2013
IE8 zero-day exploit targets U.S. nuke researchers

Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working  on nuclear weapons research. Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working  on nuclear weapons research, the concerning discovery has been confirmed by principal security firms that revealed that the flaw […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2013
QinetiQ breached by long Chinese cyber espionage campaign

Bloomberg published a report on QinetiQ data breach, the company has been compromised from 2007 to 2012 by Chinese hackers. The UK-based defense contractor QinetiQ is vulnerable to cyber attacks, the news is sensational and has created a lot of noise on the Internet, due the critical role of the company as primary providers for U.S. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2013
Verizon, large scale cyber espionage from China and much more

Verizon has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Verizon’s RISK Team, in collaboration with other 18 partners, has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Since 2008 the company yearly publishes data related to principal incidents occurred during […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2013
New wave of DDoS against EU Banking can hide a sinister mystery

In the last months of 2012 a group of hackers known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” conducted a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions including the U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. Security experts noted that the hackers adopted an anomalous strategy for the […]