Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2019
The Australian Parliament was hacked earlier this year

The computer network of Australian Parliament was hacked earlier this year, and hackers exfiltrated data from the computers of several elected officials. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC), earlier this year hackers penetrated the computer network of Australian Parliament and stole data from the computers of several elected officials. The attack took place on […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 14, 2019
Canadian intelligence agencies CSE and CSIS are divided on Huawei 5G ban

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) are divided over the ban of Huawei 5G technology. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) agencies are divided over the ban of Huawei 5G technology. Canada, along with the US, the UK, New Zealand, and Australia formed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2019
Two former Twitter employees charged of spying on Users for Saudi Arabian Government

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government. The two former Twitter employees operated for the Saudi Arabian government […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2019
Mysterious DarkUniverse APT remained undetected for 8 years

Kaspersky discovered a previously unknown APT group, tracked as DarkUniverse, by analyzing Shadow Brokers’ “Lost in Translation” data dump. In 2017, a hacker group known as the Shadow Brokers stolen malware and hacking tools from the arsenal of the NSA-Linked Equation Group, then it published online the data dump called “Lost in Translation.” The dump […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
GitLab plans to ban hires in China and Russia due to espionage concerns

The popular code hosting platform GitLab is considering to block new hires from China and Russia due to espionage concerns. GitLab is a popular code hosting platform GitLab that is currently used by several major tech companies including IBM, Sony, NASA, Alibaba, Oracle, Invincea, Boeing, and SpaceX. The news was confirmed by Eric Johnson, VP […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 238

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Experts found 17 apps in the Apple App Store infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2019
China-linked APT41 group targets telecommunications companies with new backdoor

China-linked APT41 group is targeting telecommunications companies with a new piece of malware used to spy on text messages of highly targeted individuals. Researchers at FireEye discovered a new backdoor tracked as MessageTap that China-linked APT41 group are using to spy on text messages sent or received by highly targeted individuals The experts found the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2019
SWEED targets precision engineering companies in Italy

Security expert Marco Ramilli published a quick analysis of an interesting attack carried out by SWEED threat actor targeting precision engineering firms in Italy. Introduction Today I’d like to share a quick analysis of an interesting attack targeting precision engineering companies based in Italy. Precision engineering is a very important business market in Europe, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2019
NCSC Report: U.K. neutralized over 600 cyber attacks this year

NCSC Report: U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas The National Cyber Security Centre announced that the U.K. has neutralized more than 600 cyber attacks this year, most of them launched by threat actors from overseas. Hackers from overseas, many of which are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2019
Czech Police and Intelligence agency dismantled Russian Spy ring on its soil

Czech police and intelligence services have identified a Russian espionage network operating having a nerve center in its Prague embassy. Czech police and intelligence services have dismantled a Russian espionage network operating that was operating via its Prague embassy. The officials were helped by peers at the National Organised Crime Centre (NCOZ). According to the […]