Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2018
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new cyber-espionage APT group tracked ZooPark that targeted entities in the Middle East during the past three years. ZooPark APT has been active at least since 2015 and has shown a growing level of sophistication across the years. “ZooPark is a cyberespionage operation that has been focusing on Middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2018
Kaspersky analyzed the serves compromised by the Energetic Bear APT and assumed with some degree of certainty that the group operates in the interests of or takes orders from customers that are external to it. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT have published a detailed analysis of the server compromised by the notorious Energetic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2018
Security researchers at the 360 Core Security observed an APT group exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in IE, dubbed ‘double play’. The flaw is still unfixed. Security researchers at the 360 Core Security uncovered a zero-day vulnerability in IE, dubbed ‘double play’, that was triggered by weaponized MS Office documents. The experts have been observing an APT group targeting a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2018
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 05, 2018
The North Korea-linked APT group known as Lazarus made the headlines again for attacking an online casino in Central America and other targets. The activity of the Lazarus Group (aka Hidden Cobra) surged in 2014 and 2015, its members used mostly custom-tailored malware in their attacks and experts that investigated on the crew consider it highly sophisticated. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2018
FIN7 hackers stole credit and debit card information from millions of consumers who have purchased goods at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. A new data breach made the headlines, the victim is Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores. According to the parent company Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC), the security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
MITRE is evaluating a new service dubbed ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) for APT detection. MITRE is going to offer a new service based on its ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework to evaluate products based on their ability in detecting advanced persistent threats. “MITRE’s Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK™) is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian Last week, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. The US-CERT blamed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2018
Experts at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign conducted by TEMP.Zagros group targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. Iranian hackers are one of the most active in this period, researchers at FireEye uncovered a new massive phishing campaign targeting Asia and Middle East regions from January 2018 to March 2018. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
While US-CERT warns of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the energy sectors, Russia-linked Sofacy APT is targeting a government agency in Europe. Last week the US Government announced sanctions against five Russian entities and 19 individuals, including the FSB, the military intelligence agency GRU. Despite the sanctions, Russian hackers continue to target entities worldwide, including US organizations. […]
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