Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2018
76. Calls on the EU to perform a comprehensive review of software, IT and communications equipment and infrastructure used in the institutions in order to exclude potentially dangerous programmes and devices, and to ban the ones that have been confirmed as malicious, such as Kaspersky Lab Bad news for Kaspersky, European Parliament passed a resolution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2018
According to former GCHQ chief, the recently discovered VPNFilter botnet is the demonstration that Russia appears to be live-testing cyberattacks. Former GCHQ chief Robert Hannigan has warned that the availability of hacking tools in the main marketplaces is rapidly changing the threat landscape. Hannigan served as the director of the UK intelligence agency between November 2014 until January 2017. Threat actors have an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2018
According to a report published by The Washington Post, Chinese hackers have stolen a huge trove of sensitive data from a U.S. Navy contractor. China-linked hackers have stolen a huge trove of sensitive data from a U.S. Navy contractor, the Washington Post reported Friday. The threat actors stole more than 614 gigabytes of data including secret plans to develop a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2018
Sofacy APT group (APT28, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sednit, Tsar Team, and Strontium) continues to operate and thanks to rapid and continuously changes of tactics the hackers are able to remain under the radar. According to experts from Palo Alto Networks, the hackers also used new tools in recent attacks, recently the APT group has shifted focus in their interest, from NATO member […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2018
A US Federal court judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, rejected a lawsuit by Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab against the ban on the use it solution by government agencies On Wednesday, the US Federal court judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rejected a lawsuit by Russian cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab against the ban on the use it solution by government agencies. The ban on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2018
Security experts from ESET observed the Turla APT group leveraging for the first time the Metasploit framework in the Mosquito campaign The Russia-linked Turla APT group continues its cyber espionage campaigns shifting towards more generic tools to remain under the radar. Turla is the name of a Russian cyber espionage APT group (also known as […]
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
May 06, 2018
Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new cyber-espionage APT group tracked ZooPark that targeted entities in the Middle East during the past three years. ZooPark APT has been active at least since 2015 and has shown a growing level of sophistication across the years. “ZooPark is a cyberespionage operation that has been focusing on Middle […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 05, 2018
The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE products due to unacceptable security risk they pose. Smartphones manufactured by Chinese firms Huawei and ZTE are banned by US Military, the decision was taken by the Pentagon. The Pentagon is ordering retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2018
Recently, several LoJack agents were found to be connecting to servers that are believed to be controlled by the notorious Russia-linked Fancy Bear APT group. LoJack for laptops is a security software designed to catch computer thieves, but it could be theoretically abused to spy on legitimate owners of the device. LoJack could be used to locate […]
