Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2017
UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s letter warns against software made in hostile states, specifically Russia

The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warns of supply chain risk in cloud-based products, including antivirus (AV) software developed by Russia. We have a long debated the ban of the Russian security software from US Government offices, now part of the UK intelligence is adopting the same strategy. Last week the CEO of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2017
Kaspersky case – Now we know who is the NSA hacker who kept Agency’s cyber weapons at home

A former NSA hacker pleaded guilty on Friday to illegally taking classified documents home, which were later stolen by Russian cyber spies. A member of the US National Security Agency Tailored Access Operations hacking team, Nghia Hoang Pho (67) pleaded guilty in a US district court in Baltimore on Friday to one count of willful retention of national defense […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 29, 2017
Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen pleads guilty to 2014 Yahoo hack, he admits helping Russian Intelligence

The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo hack that affected three billion accounts. The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) (Kay, a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov), has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected three billion accounts. Karim Baratov was arrested in Toronto at his home by the Toronto Police […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Top Secret US Army and NSA documents left exposed on Amazon S3 bucket

The experts from the security firm UpGuard have discovered another S3 bucket containing documents from INSCOM, that is a joint US Army and NSA agency. A couple of weeks ago sensitive data from the US Army’s CENTCOM and PACOM divisions was exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, experts from the security firm UpGuard found terabytes of US military social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2017
U.S. charges Iranian state-sponsored hacker over ‘Game of Thrones’ HBO hack

US Department of Justice charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones’ HBO Hack, he also worked with the Iranian Military. The United States charged the Iranian computer expert Behzad Mesri of ‘Games of Thrones‘ HBO Hack. On Tuesday, the man was charged with stealing scripts and plot summaries for ‘Games of Thrones’. The Manhattan US attorney Joon Kim […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2017
Terabytes of US military social media surveillance miserably left wide open in AWS S3 buckets

Three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. It has happened again, other three AWS S3 buckets containing dozen of terabytes resulting from surveillance on US social media were left wide open online. The misconfigured AWS S3 buckets contain social media posts and similar pages […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2017
Kaspersky provided further details on NSA Incident. Other APTs targeted the same PC

Kaspersky Lab publishes a full technical report related to hack of its antivirus software to steal NSA hacking code. In October, anonymous source claimed that in 2015 the Russian intelligence stole NSA cyber weapons from the PC of one of its employees that was running the Kaspersky antivirus. Kaspersky denies any direct involvement and provided further details […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2017
Vault 8 – WikiLeaks releases source code for CIA Hive malware control platform

Wikileaks released the first batch of documents starting with the source code and development logs of the Project Hive. Today the popular whistleblower organization Wikileaks announced a new Vault 8 series that shed the light on the source code and the hacking infrastructure developed by the CIA. Anyone can access the source code and analyze […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2017
Symantec uncovered a new APT, the cyber espionage Sowbug group

Malware researchers from Symantec have spotted a new cyber espionage APT dubbed Sowbug group that has been active at least since 2015. A new cyber espionage group dubbed Sowbug appeared in the threat landscape, according to the experts it has been active since 2015 and was involved in highly targeted attacks against a host of government organizations in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2017
Vietnamese APT32 group is one of the most advanced APTs in the threat landscape

According to the incident response firm Volexity, Vietnamese APT32 group is today one of the most advanced APTs in the threat landscape According to the incident response firm Volexity, the cyber espionage campaigns associated with a group operating out of Vietnam and tracked as tracked as OceanLotus and APT32 have become increasingly sophisticated. Researchers at Volexity has been tracking the threat actor since […]