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Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2017

Exclusive: Dirty Political Spying Attempt behind the FHAPPI Campaign: all the details in the interview with @unixfreaxjp

The role of China (PRC) in the worldwide cyber espionage game of conditioning political life: when reserved information are brandished against the political opponent. In the days of testimony of U.S. Federal investigators about the role played during the last year by Russians, their alleged cyber operation is once again under examination. The mainstream media […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2017

New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie

New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie who shared a lot of interesting details about the attack vectors and reverse techniques. Our travel along the great analysis of a fresh, new insidious APT China campaign. An ordinary case of phishing? At the beginning, it seemed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2017

The ViperRAT APT group is targeting the Israeli Defense Force

A group of hackers tracked as ViperRAT is spying on the Israeli military by hacking into the soldiers’ personal Android mobile devices. A group of hackers, tracked as ViperRAT, is spying on the Israeli military by hacking into the soldiers’ personal Android mobile devices to track their activities and steal sensitive data. Experts from security firms […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2017

2016 Christmas Ukraine power outage was caused by hackers

Ukrenergo confirmed that preliminary results of its investigation showed that the Ukraine power outage that occurred in December was caused by hackers. In December 2016, the Government Ukraine energy company Ukrenergo suffered a severe power outage that affected the ”North” substation at Pivnichna. The incident caused blackouts in the city of Kyiv and neighboring regions. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 06, 2017

MM Core APT malware is back, Forcepoint has detected 2 new versions

Forcepoint has detected two new versions of an advanced persistent threat (APT) malware dubbed MM Core APT and first discovered in 2013. The APT MM Core malware has been in the wild since April 2013 when it was spotted for the first time by experts at FireEye. The malware researchers dubbed the first release of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2016

Fancy Bear APT tracked Ukrainian artillery units with an Android implant

The Russian APT group Fancy Bear used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016. The popular hacking group, known as Fancy Bear, APT 28, Pawn Storm, Sednit or Sofacy, is once again in the headlines. Experts from the cyber security firm CrowdStrike reported the alleged Russian nation-state actor used malware implant […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2016

PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM APTs used same Zero-Day to Target Turkish citizens

Microsoft discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day flaw on same targets. Security researchers have discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) in cyber espionage campaigns on Turkish citizens living in Turkey and various other European countries. Both […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2016

BlackEnergy hackers, now TeleBots, target Ukrainian banks

The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago, now identified as TeleBots, are targeting Ukrainian banks. The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago causing a power outage in the country are now targeting Ukrainian banks. The Ukrainian government accused Russia of being involved in the attack, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2016

FruityArmor APT exploited Windows Zero-Day flaws in attacks in the wild

Experts from Kaspersky have discovered a new APT dubbed FruityArmor APT using a zero-day vulnerability patched this month by Microsoft. A new APT group, dubbed FruityArmor, targeted activists, researchers, and individuals related to government organizations. According to experts at Kaspersky Lab, the FruityArmor APT conducted targeted attacks leveraging on a Windows zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-3393, recently […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2016

Political Cyberattacks: Senior Turkish Government Officials Affected by Advanced Malware

Experts at ElevenPaths, a Telefonica’s cyber security unit, provided further details on political cyberattacks leveraging on advanced malicious codes. On 19 July at 11pm Ankara time, Wikileaks published the first emails that were grabbed from the Turkish AKP. The organization led by Julian Assange, being in line with its policy on publication of secret information, […]

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Exclusive: Dirty Political Spying Attempt behind the FHAPPI Campaign: all the details in the interview with @unixfreaxjp

New APT Campaign based on Poison Ivy RAT with C&C in China has been reversed by MalwareMustDie

The ViperRAT APT group is targeting the Israeli Defense Force

2016 Christmas Ukraine power outage was caused by hackers

MM Core APT malware is back, Forcepoint has detected 2 new versions

Fancy Bear APT tracked Ukrainian artillery units with an Android implant

PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM APTs used same Zero-Day to Target Turkish citizens

BlackEnergy hackers, now TeleBots, target Ukrainian banks

FruityArmor APT exploited Windows Zero-Day flaws in attacks in the wild

Political Cyberattacks: Senior Turkish Government Officials Affected by Advanced Malware

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