Pierluigi Paganini
May 01, 2017
Locked Shields is the world’s largest and most advanced international technical live-fire cyber defence exercise organized by the NATO since 2010. Locked Shields is the world’s largest and most sophisticated international cyber defence exercise. It is an annual event since 2010, Locked Shields is organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2017
It started quietly as a probability not a reality. Now within months cyberwarfare has become a reality plausible as the air we breathe. The revelation of governments hacking units has brought light for a new domain of conflict: Cyberwarfare. Once a secret these government agencies were public revealed like the Equation Group as well as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2017
Ukraine blames Russia for a new wave of cyber attacks on its infrastructure, including the power grid and financial system. This week Ukraine accused Russia of cyber attacks against its critical infrastructure, including power grid and financial systems. State-sponsored hackers used a new strain of malware that targets industrial processes, the malicious code looked like it was designed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2017
The security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have simulated a ransomware-based attack on PLCs in a water treatment plant. The security researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have conducted an interesting research on the potential impact of ransomware on industrial control systems (ICS). The researchers David Formby, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2016
The US ICS-CERT published its annual vulnerability coordination report for FY 2015 that provided information about security holes reported to the agency. The US ICS-CERT has published its annual vulnerability coordination report for the fiscal year 2015. The report included detailed information about security vulnerabilities reported to the US ICS-CERT in 2015. “ICS-CERT is pleased to announce the release of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2016
The head of Iran’s civilian defense confirmed that a malware was found in petrochemical complexes, but it hasn’t caused the fires under investigation. Last week, I reported the news related to a series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants. The Iran’s Supreme National Cyberspace Council started an investigation to discover if the incidents at oil and petrochemical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 24, 2016
The Navis WebAccess application used in the transportation sector worldwide is affected by a high severity SQL injection vulnerability. A software used in the US ports is affected by a high severity SQL Injection vulnerability (CVE-2016-5817). The flaw was discovered by a hacker behind the online moniker “bRpsd,” the expert has discovered the vulnerability in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2016
Iran ’s cyberspace security authorities are investigating a string of fires in the country oil and gas facilities. Incidents or cyber sabotage? Once again, something of strange is happening in Iran, the Government of Teheran is investigating a recent string of incidents occurred in critical infrastructure in the country. The Iran’s Supreme National Cyberspace Council […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2016
FireEye documented more than 1,500 vulnerabilities affecting ICS disclosed in the past 15 years, and some of them are still present. Security of critical infrastructure is a pillar of the cyber strategy of any government, both the NIS directive and Warsaw NATO summit stressed the importance of a proper security posture to protect our systems from cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2016
The Labs team at SentinelOne recently discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Furtim specifically targeting at least one European energy company. In May of this year, security researcher Yotam Gottesam with enSilo, began unraveling a mystery that continues to unravel. First reported by FireF0X, a self-proclaimed “ex-malware analyst” located in the Russian Federation, the Furtim malware […]
