Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2018
A new report sheds the lights on state-sponsored Chinese APTs under Winnti umbrella

Security experts at 401TRG, the threat research and analysis team at ProtectWise, have discovered links between several Chinese APT groups under the Winnti umbrella. The experts analyzed several campaigns conducted by the cyber espionage groups over the last years and associated their activities with the Chinese Government, in one case the nation-state actor was working from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2018
The Pentagon bans Huawei and ZTE phones from stores on military bases

The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE products due to unacceptable security risk they pose. Smartphones manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE are banned by US Military, the decision was taken by the Pentagon. The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2018
Fancy Bear abuses LoJack security software in targeted attacks

Recently, several LoJack agents were found to be connecting to servers that are believed to be controlled by the notorious Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group. LoJack for laptops is a security software designed to catch computer thieves, but it could be theoretically abused to spy on legitimate owners of the device. LoJack could be used to locate […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2018
Cambridge Analytica is shutting down after Facebook privacy scandal, is it true?

Cambridge Analytica, the commercial data analytics company at the centre of the Facebook privacy scandal, is ceasing all operations. Cambridge Analytica, the commercial data analytics company at the centre of the Facebook privacy scandal, is ceasing all operations. The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica that was the protagonist of the biggest privacy scandal of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2018
European and US police hit the Islamic State propaganda machine

A coordinated effort of law enforcement agencies (law enforcement authorities of the European Union Member States, Canada, and the USA) hit the Islamic State propaganda machine. European law enforcement agencies coordinated by Europol conducted an unprecedented multinational cyber operation against the Islamic State’propaganda machine. Authorities have “punched a big hole” in Islamic State’s propaganda machine, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2018
Twitter bans Kaspersky from advertising its products through its platform

Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising its solutions on the platform citing DHS ban for its alleged ties with the Russian intelligence. Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its platform citing DHS ban for its alleged ties with Russian intelligence agencies. “At the end of January of this year, Twitter unexpectedly informed us about […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2018
UK NCSC, DHS and the FBI Warn of Russian hacking campaign on Western networks

UK NCSC, DHS, and the FBI warn of Russian hacking campaign on Western networks, state-sponsored hackers are targeting network infrastructure key components. US and Britain government agencies warn of Russian state-sponsored cyber attacks to compromise government and business networking equipment. Russian hackers aim to control the data flaw “to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2018
UK GCHQ director confirmed major cyberattack on Islamic State

GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming announced this week that the U.K. has launched a major cyberattack on the Islamic State (IS) terrorist organization. According to the spy chief, the GCHQ the attack was launched in collaboration with the U.K. Ministry of Defence and has distributed operations of the Islamic State. The UK intelligence believes this is the first […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
When the Russian Malware coder Gatsoev is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia

When the Russian young Malware coder is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia. Under the spotlight: the story of Atsamaz Gatsoev (aka “1ms0rry”) who has set up his illegal business. A new write-up made by a security researcher known as Benkow (@Benkow_) has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2018
Experts spotted a campaign spreading a new Agent Tesla Spyware variant

A new variant of the infamous Agent Tesla spyware was spotted by experts at Fortinet, the malware has been spreading via weaponize Microsoft Word documents. Agent Tesla is a spyware that is used to spy on the victims by collecting keystrokes, system clipboard, screenshots, and credentials from the infected system. To do this, the spyware […]