Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2014
According to an unnamed official at the White House, hackers infiltrated an unclassified network.The Obama Administration has confirmed the incident. An embarrassing incident involved the computer systems of the Obama Administration, according to the media an unclassified computer network used by the US government was infiltrated by hackers. The New York Times reported that an unnamed official working […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2014
Operation Distributed Dragons – Tiger Security firm has discovered a series of DDoS attacks from China and that appear as run by a structured organization. Security experts at the Italian Tiger Security firm have spotted a new wave of DDoS attacks that were originated in China and that appear as run by well organized APT. The expert identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2014
Principal security firms united in a joint effort dubbed Operation SMN against the cyber espionage group known as Hidden Lynx and its arsenal. The Hidden Lynx APT is a China-based group of hackers that conducted numerous cyber espionage campaign against U.S. defense contractors and other foreign organizations. The name Hidden Lynx was assigned to the APT by experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2014
iSIGHT Partners firm uncovered a Russian hacking team dubbed Sandworm that was running a cyber espionage campaign on NATO and other Government entities. According to a new report issued by the cyber security firm iSIGHT Partners a group of Russian hackers has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2014
China calls for stronger cybersecurity to respond the aggressive cyber-war conducted against its systems by Western countries. It’s not a mystery, China is within those countries that most of all are investing to improve cyber capabilities and strengthen its leadership in the cyber space. According to state media broadcasters Chinese Government will continue to invest to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2014
Security Experts at FireEye discovered a new malicious campaign which is targeting Chinese organizations with iFrame traffic redirection to serve RAT. Security experts at FireEye observed a new malicious campaign that is targeting non-profit organizations and non-governmental organizations by compromising legitimate website. The threat actors use to compromise legitimate websites to host iframes used to hijack visitors […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Experts at IBM Trusteer security firms have discovered a massively distributed Citadel trojan targets Middle Eastern Petrochemical companies. Researchers at IBM Trusteer have recently discovered targeted cyber attacks using a variant of the popular Citadel trojan on several Middle Eastern petrochemical companies. The Citadel Trojan is a malware designed to steal personal information, including banking and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2014
Security Experts at FireEye Lab discovered a new variant of the XSLCmd backdoor that has been used in targeted attacks infecting Mac OX based systems. Experts at FireEye Labs have discovered a previously unknown variant of the APT backdoor XSLCmd, OSX.XSLCmd, which is used by a group of hackers known for past cyber espionage activities against the U.S. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2014
Researchers at FireEye have uncovered a new campaign dubbed Poisoned Hurricane characterized by the use of some clever techniques to avoid being detected. Security experts at FireEye revealed that several Internet infrastructure service providers in the United States and Asia, a financial institution, a government organization located in Asia and a US-based media company suffered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 02, 2014
The Kaspersky Lab Team has issued a report which includes details of the investigation related to the Energetic Bear – Crouching Yeti APT campaign. Energetic Bear, aka Crouching Yeti, is the recently discovered APT campaign that targeted energy companies, manufacturers, industrial, pharmaceutical, construction, and many IT companies. Security experts have analyzed the Energetic Bear APT campaign, which appears […]
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