Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2018
Israeli military intelligence accused Hamas operatives of creating tainted apps to lure soldiers into downloading spyware onto their phones. According to a report published by the Israeli military, Hamas hackers are attempting to lure Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldiers into installing tainted apps on their devices. Israeli military already blamed Hamas of similar attacks, but this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 03, 2018
Iranian APT groups continue to very active, recently Charming Kitten cyber spies attempted to pose as an Israeli cyber-security firm that uncovered previous hacking campaigns. The Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group, aka Newscaster or Newsbeef, launched spear phishing attacks against people interested in reading reports about it. The Newscaster group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2018
NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities. The US National Security Agency announced it is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers. “Consistent with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2018
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have uncovered a new cyber espionage group tracked as RANCOR that has been targeting entities in South East Asia. According to the experts, the RANCOR APT group has been targeting political entities in Singapore, Cambodia, and Thailand, and likely in other countries, using two previously unknown strain of malware. The two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2018
Palo Alto Networks experts uncovered a new operation conducted by the cyber espionage group known as Tick APT that has been targeting a secure USB drive built by a South Korean defense company. The Tick APT group has been active for at least a decade, tracked also as Bronze Butler, it was first spotted in 2016 by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2018
Olympic Destroyer, the malicious code that was used in attacks against Winter Games in Pyeongchang, was involved in a new wave of cyber attacks. The same malware used in recent Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang, tracked as Olympic Destroyer, has been used in a new wave of attacks against organizations in Germany, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Switzerland, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2018
An Ex-CIA employee, Joshua Adam Schulte (29), has been charged with stealing classified national defense information and sharing Vault 7 dumps with WikiLeaks. Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that Schulte has been charged with 13 count indictment. In middle May, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, revealed the name of the alleged source of the Vault 7 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
The US DHS and the FBI have published a new joint report that includes technical details of a piece of malware allegedly used by the Hidden Cobra APT. A new joint report published by US DHS and FBI made the headlines, past document details TTPs associated with North Korea-linked threat groups, tracked by the US government as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2018
Following the recent hack of a US Navy contractor security experts found evidence of very recent activity by the China-linked APT group tracked as APT15. The China-linked APT15 group (aka Ke3chang, Mirage, Vixen Panda, Royal APT and Playful Dragon) has developed a new strain of malware borrowing the code from one of the tool he used in past […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2018
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