Reports

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2021
Threat actors hacked US Census Bureau in 2020 by exploiting a Citrix flaw

Threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day vulnerability, OIG revealed. A report published by the US Office of Inspector General (OIG) revealed that threat actors breached the servers of US Census Bureau on January 11, 2020, exploiting an unpatched Citrix ADC zero-day flaw. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2021
IBM Cost of a Data Breach study: average Cost of Data Breach exceeds $4.2M

The ‘Cost of a Data Breach’ report commissioned by IBM Security states that the cost of a data breach exceeded $4.2 million during the COVID19 pandemic. IBM Security presented today the annual study “Cost of Data Breach,” conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored and analyzed by IBM, which is based on data related to data […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2021
Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to June, Q2, of 2021 The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is based on automatic searches and is also supported […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2021
ENISA publishes Cybersecurity guide for SMEs

ENISA publishes Cybersecurity guide for SMEs, a document that aims at providing suggestions to secure their business During the COVID-19 pandemic, most of organizations increased their presence online, enlarging their surface of attacks. The surface of attack for SMEs was enlarged, many of them took business continuity measures, such as adopting cloud services, improving their […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2021
NSA releases guidance for securing Unified Communications and VVoIP

The US National Security Agency (NSA) released guidance for securing Unified Communications/Voice and Video over IP Systems (VVoIP). NSA last week released guidance for securing their communication systems, specifically Unified Communications (UC) and Voice and Video over IP (VVoIP). Unified Communications (UC) and Voice and Video over IP (VVoIP) call-processing systems provide enterprises communications and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2021
US CISA published a guide to better use the MITRE ATT&CK framework

The U.S. CISA announced the availability of a new guide for cyber threat intelligence experts on the use of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released a new guide for cyber threat intelligence experts on the use of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. In 2018, MITRE announced the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2021
NASA identified 1,785 cyber incidents in 2020

NASA identified more than 6,000 cyber-related incidents in the last four years, according to a report published by its Office of Inspector General. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has identified more than 6,000 cyber-related incidents in the last four years, according to a report published by NASA’s Office of Inspector General. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2021
CISA MAR report provides technical details of FiveHands Ransomware

U.S. CISA has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware, the same malware that was analyzed a few days ago by researchers from FireEye’s Mandiant experts. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published an analysis of the FiveHands ransomware that was recently detailed by FireEye’s Mandiant. At the end of April, researchers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2021
Russia-linked APT29 group changes TTPs following April advisories

The UK and US cybersecurity agencies have published a report detailing techniques used by Russia-linked cyberespionage group known APT29 (aka Cozy Bear). Today, UK NCSC and CISA-FBI-NSA cybersecurity agencies published a joint security advisory that warns organizations to patch systems immediately to mitigate the risk of attacks conducted by Russia-linked SVR group (aka APT29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes)). The […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2021
Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021

The Threat Report Portugal: Q1 2021 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from January to March, Q1, of 2021. Threat Report Portugal Q1 2021: Phishing and malware by numbers. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is […]