Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2018
Security experts at 401TRG, the threat research and analysis team at ProtectWise, have discovered links between several Chinese APT groups under the Winnti umbrella. The experts analyzed several campaigns conducted by the cyber espionage groups over the last years and associated their activities with the Chinese Government, in one case the nation-state actor was working from the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2018
The UK GCHQ intelligence agency warns UK telcos firms of the risks of using ZTE equipment and services for their infrastructure. The alert was issued by the National Cyber Security Centre that said the Chinese firm “would present risk to UK national security that could not be mitigated effectively or practicably”. Let’s remind that the ZTE […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2018
The China-linked APT group Leviathan. aka TEMP.Periscope, has increased the attacks on engineering and maritime entities over the past months. Past attacks conducted by the group aimed at targets connected to South China Sea issues, most of them were research institutes, academic organizations, and private firms in the United States. The group has also targeted professional/consulting services, high-tech industry, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2018
China-Linked APT15 used new backdoors is an attack that is likely part of a wider operation aimed at contractors at various UK government departments and military organizations. Last week Ahmed Zaki, a senior malware researcher at NCC Group, presented at the Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit (SAS), details of a malware-based attack against the service provider for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2018
RedDrop malware is a recently discovered mobile threat that can steal data from infected devices and also record ambient audio. Security researchers at Wandera have spotted a new sophisticated family of mobile malware dubbed RedDrop that can steal data, record audio, and intercept SMS. All data stolen from infected systems is uploaded to remote file storage systems. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2018
Changes in Apple’s iCloud Security Policies – Apple announced to relocating the encryption key for users data in China; from the United States of America to some country in Asia! The latest chaos in the digital world regarding Apple has stricken like a bullet, as the iPhone manufacturer announced to relocating the encryption key for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2018
Chinese Iron Tiger APT is back, the new campaign, dubbed by Operation PZChao is targeting government, technology, education, and telecommunications organizations in Asia and the US. Malware researchers from Bitdefender have discovered and monitored for several months the activity of a custom-built backdoor capable of password-stealing, bitcoin-mining, and of course to gain full control of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
According to the Wall Stree Journal, Intel reportedly alerted Chinese companies before US Gov about Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. There is no peace for Intel, according to a report published by The Wall Street Journal the company warned Chinese tech giants about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities before notifying them to the US government. Citing unnamed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
The Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without the authorization. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying, the authorities always fight any services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2017
Security researchers discovered multiple hacking campaigns conducted by a Chinese criminal gang targeting database servers. The researchers from the security firm GuardiCore Labs Security have discovered multiple hacking campaigns conducted by a Chinese criminal gang targeting database servers. The attackers targeted systems worldwide for mining cryptocurrencies, exfiltrating sensitive data and building a DDoS botnet. The experts […]
