Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed the cyber attacks run by the Blue Termite APT, a hacking crew group focused on Japanese organizations. According to the experts at Kaspersky security firm, an ATP group dubbed Blue Termite has been active since at least November 2013 focusing its attacks on Japanese organizations. The Blue Termite APT […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
The Panda Emissary group extensively uses long-running strategic web compromises and relies on whitelists to syphon defence aerospace projects from victims. An alleged Chinese APT group dubbed Panda Emissary (also known as TG-3390) is targeting high-profile governments and organisations searching for defense aerospace projects. Researchers at Dell discovered that the Panda Emissary group used Watering hole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2015
The NBC News published a secret NSA map reporting the locations of “Victims of Chinese Cyber Espionage” attacks that resulted in data thefts. The NBC News has published in exclusive a secret NSA map showing the locations of the cyber attacks carried out by Chinese hackers over a five-year period. Every marker in the secret NSA map […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2015
According to the experts at Volexity the Flash Player exploit has been leveraged in spear phishing campaign launched by the Wekby APT. As anticipated, several criminal gangs included the code for the exploitation of CVE-2015-5119 vulnerability in their exploit kits, let’s remember that the exploits code was disclosed as the result of the attack against the Hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2015
Morpho is the name of a financially motivated espionage group that targets large enterprises, including Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. Security experts have discovered and analyzed the activities of a financially motivated APT group, dubbed Morpho and Wild Neutron, that has targeted a large number of high profile companies worldwide. According to the analysis published by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2015
Ongoing incidents have brought to light the power of both Russia and China in the field of cyber espionage. Their experts have continuously targeted the US and the British, including Governmental sources and esteemed companies. It is no surprise that cyber espionage has been growing larger and larger. Significant players come from Russia and China, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky collected evidence that the Winniti APT is moving beyond the gaming industry targeting telecoms and big pharma companies. My most passionate readers, will remember for sure the Winnti group, a Chinese APT discovered by Kaspersky Lab in 2013 that targeted companies in the gaming industry. According to the experts, the Winnti gang has been active […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2015
Malware authors behind the Duqu 2.0 used a stolen certificate from the Foxconn company to implement a persistence mechanism and stay stealthy. New details emerge from the investigation conducted by the experts at Kaspersky on the Duqu 2.0 malware that targeted the systems of the company, the threat actors used valid certificate from Hon Hai Precision Industry […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
US financial industry is under persistent attacks, the number of incidents that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are increasing. Financial industry in US maintains symptoms of persistent cyber-attacks among surprising cyber incidents and large-scale data breaches that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of user’s information. Several advanced hacking methods and the exploitation of zero-day flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2015
Security experts at FireEye have published a report that details the cyber threats targeting various sectors in the Nordic countries. According to FireEye, threat actors targeted strategic industries (i.e. aerospace and defense, energy, health and pharmaceuticals, and shipping), government and defense agencies searching for political, economic and military intelligence. Experts believe sophisticated threat groups could be […]
