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Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2018

Olympic Destroyer, alleged artifacts and false flag make attribution impossible

According to Kaspersky Lab, threat actors behind the recent Olympic Destroyer attack planted sophisticated false flags inside their malicious code. On February 9, shortly before the Pyeongchang opening ceremonies on Friday, televisions at the main press centre, wifi at the Olympic Stadium and the official website were taken down. Hackers used the so-called Olympic Destroyer, a strain […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2018

Leaked NSA dump contains tools developed by NSA Territorial Dispute to track state-sponsored hackers

A specific NSA unit, dubbed NSA Territorial Dispute (TeDi) developed these scripts to monitor activities of nation-state actors. Security experts at CrySyS Lab and Ukatemi have revealed that the NSA dump leaked one year ago by the Shadow Brokers hacker group also contains a collection of scripts and scanning tools the NSA uses to track operations of foreign state-sponsored […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2018

DPA Report: Russia-linked APT28 group hacked Germany’s government network

Germany Government confirmed that hackers had breached its computer network and implanted a malware that was undetected for one year. German news agency DPA reported that Russian hackers belonging to the APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and Strontium) have breached Germany’s foreign and interior ministries’ online networks. The agency, quoting unnamed security sources, revealed that the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 21, 2018

North Korean APT Group tracked as APT37 broadens its horizons

Researchers at FireEye speculate that the APT group tracked as APT37 (aka Reaper, Group123, ScarCruft) operated on behalf of the North Korean government. Here we are to speak about a nation-state actor dubbed APT37 (aka Reaper, Group123, ScarCruft) that is believed to be operating on behalf of the North Korean government. APT37 has been active since at least […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2018

All You Need to Know About North Korea and its cyber army

What Type Of Technology Does North Korea Have? How Did The Country Begin Using Hackers? How Do Hacking Efforts Comply with the Political Situation? North Korea is not known for technological sophistication. The country does not have any global technological franchises, such as Apple or Samsung, and its citizens continue to have limited access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2018

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 6)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 6) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. Cyber criminals continue to target cryptocurrency industry with malware and phishing attacks. Security researchers at Netlab have spotted a new Android mining botnet, dubbed ADB.miner, that targets devices with ADB interface open. An international operation conducted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2018

CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: Dark Caracal and the Pallas malware family

Researchers from CSE ZLAB malware Analysis Laboratory analyzed a set of samples of the Pallas malware family used by the Dark Caracal APT in its hacking operations. The malware researchers from ZLab analyzed a collection of samples related to a new APT tracked as Dark Caracal, which was discovered by Electronic Frontier Foundation in collaboration […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2018

Adobe rolled out an emergency patch that fixed CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploited by North Korea

Adobe rolled out an emergency patch that fixed two critical remote execution vulnerabilities, including the CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploited by North Korea. Adobe has rolled out an emergency patch to address two Flash player vulnerabilities after North Korea’s APT group was spotted exploiting one of them in targeted attacks. Last week, South Korea’s Internet & Security […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2018

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 5)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 5) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The week began with massive cyber attacks against three Dutch banks and the National Tax Agency. Experts speculate the involvement of Russia because the attacks started after the revelation of the hack of the APT […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The threats that most of all characterized this week are IoT botnets and malvertising. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the […]

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Olympic Destroyer, alleged artifacts and false flag make attribution impossible

Leaked NSA dump contains tools developed by NSA Territorial Dispute to track state-sponsored hackers

DPA Report: Russia-linked APT28 group hacked Germany’s government network

North Korean APT Group tracked as APT37 broadens its horizons

All You Need to Know About North Korea and its cyber army

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 6)

CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: Dark Caracal and the Pallas malware family

Adobe rolled out an emergency patch that fixed CVE-2018-4878 flaw exploited by North Korea

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 5)

Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4)

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