Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2014
Kaspersky Lab suspects that the bad actor who is managing a new campaign dubbed CloudAtlas is the same that run the Operation Red October two years ago. Red October is the name of a cyber espionage campaign discovered by security experts at Kaspersky Lab in late 2012 and disclosed in January 2013. The threat actors behind the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected the first strain of Turla malware that was designed to infect Linux system and so called Penquin Turla. Security Experts at Kaspersky have discovered a new variant of Turla malware which was designed to hit Linux systems and for this reason, it was called the Penquin Turla. The investigation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
Security firm Cylance revealed that Iranian hackers target airlines, energy, defense companies worldwide as part of the Operation Cleaver campaign. Security firm Cylance released a detailed report on the hacking Operation Cleaver that was run by state-sponsored hackers linked to the Iran. The Iranian hackers targeted critical infrastructure worldwide, ten of which are located in the United States. Experts at Cylance are cautions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2014
The popular cyber security expert Raoul Chiesa commented the hypothesis that backdoor Regin is a product of organized cybercrime. Excerpt from a detailed analysis published on the Infosec Institute In this phase it is quite impossible to attribute precisely the development of the Regin malware to a specific category of threat actors. Until now we […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2014
FireEye discovered that the Group of hackers dubbed APT3 that managed the Op Clandestine Fox is now running a new campaign dubbed Operation Double Tap. Researchers at FireEye have uncovered a new advanced persistent threat crew dubbed APT3, which is using exploits targeting recently disclosed vulnerabilities in Windows. The experts at FireEye believe that APT3 is the same […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab issued a detailed paper on the analysis of the backdoor Regin focusing on the attacker’s activity against the GSM networks. The day after the disclosure of the Regin Backdoor by Symantec, which provided the details the new sophisticated cyber espionage tool,the principal security firms published the results of their investigation. As […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2014
Symantec has uncovered the backdoor Regin, a highly advanced spying tool used in cyber espionage campaigns against governments and infrastructure operators. Backdoor Regin, is the name assigned by the experts at Symantec to an advanced spying tool that has been used in cyber espionage campaigns against governments, infrastructure operators, private companies, researchers, and private individuals. Regin appears […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2014
Ecuadorean President Correa has publicly denounced the US Intelligence continuous cyber attacks against his private internet accounts and computers. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has publicly denounced the US Intelligence of âsystematic, high-techâ cyber attacks on his private internet accounts and computers. The President Rafael Correa also revealed that the last attack occurred  on Thursday, November 20th, was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2014
Data related to the number of incidents occurred to national infrastructure confirms that the US Government energy industry is constantly under attack. The US Government is aware that nation’s energy grid is constantly under attack by state-sponsored hackers and cyber criminals. Recently The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that Russian hackers have infiltrated several critical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2014
APT actors trying to use the G20 2014 summit as a lure to compromise Tibetan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) with Gh0st RAT. Security experts at ESET uncovered a new series of cyber attacks that targeted Tibetan nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) concurrently with the G20 2014 summit in Brisbane, Australia. The experts discovered that APTs behind the attacks used a strain of the Gh0st RAT characterized […]
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