cyber espionage

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2014
New iBanking mobile Trojan exploits Facebook platform

Security experts at ESET detected a new variant of iBanking Trojan offered in the underground that exploits Facebook platform as vector of infection. iBanking is the name of a mobile banking Trojan app distributed through HTML injection attacks on banking sites. iBanking deceives victims impersonating itself as a  ‘Security App‘ for Android, we have spoken about it  early 2014 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2014
German Aerospace Center hit by serious malware-based attack

The German Aerospace Center was victim of a cyberespionage attack, many computers have been infected by sophisticated Trojans and other spyware. Cyber espionage is considerable today one of the most alarming cyber threats for governments and private industries, a growing number of attacks has the primary purpose to steal sensitive information like secret documents and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2014
New Google Chrome bug allows eavesdropping on conversation

Security Blogger Guya discovered a new Google Chrome eavesdropping bug that allows websites to listen to user private conversations. A second security eavesdropping flaw has been found in Google Chrome browser, a security blogger named Guya has made the alarming discovery. The security blogger discovered that an attacker exploiting the vulnerability in Google Chrome could transform the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2014
Security threat landscape in the Middle East … the mined cyber area

Analysis of the cyber threat landscape in the Middle East region provided by Tim Rains, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, at RSA 2014. Middle East is historically a critical area for the diplomacy, but there is the same critical under the cyber security profile. The governments, the enterprises and the organizations present in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2014
F-Secure has discovered MiniDuke malware samples in the wild

Security Experts at F-Secure discovered a collection of pdf documents, that had references to Ukraine, containing MiniDuke malware samples. MiniDuke is the name of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign discovered more than one year ago by experts at Kaspersky Lab and Hungary’s Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS). The malicious code was used by unknown hackers to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2014
WinRAR zero-day exploited in cyber espionage campaign

Israeli researcher Danor Cohen has discovered a security flaw in WinRAR, IntelCrawler confirmed was exploited in cyber espionage campaign. WinRAR is a popular shareware file archiver and data compression utility, as usual these applications are targeted by hackers because their penetration level. Recently the Israeli researcher Danor Cohen has discovered that a security flaw in WinRAR is being exploited in a series […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2014
RSA is accused again to have helped NSA to weaken security products

A group of researchers from Johns Hopkins University discovered that a second NSA tool aggravate the RSA security software’s vulnerability. We all remember the Snowden‘s revelations regarding the support provided my RSA Security, a division of EMC company, to the NSA Intelligence. Snowden accused the RSA to have deliberately inserted an alleged encryption backdoor in […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2014
How GCHQ and NSA spied on German citizens and global politics

GCHQ infiltrated German firms while NSA obtained a court order to spy on Germany and collected information about the chancellor in a special database. A new report published by Der Spiegel agency based on the document leaked by Edward Snowden has revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) and the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) spied on private […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2014
FireEye uncovered APTs exploiting interest on Malaysian Flight MH370

Security experts at FireEye uncovered a cyber espionage campaign based on multiple MH370 themed spear phishing emails. Security researchers at FireEye have revealed a link between a recent spear phishing campaign on Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 and the attacks conducted by some advanced persistent threat (APT) attackers. The mysterious skyjacking of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft of Malaysian Airlines, flight MH370, is considered one of the events […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2014
NSA hacked Huawei network for cyber espionage

NSA leaked documents, analyzed by Der Spiegel and The Times, report that NSA has hacked Huawei network to demonstrate the link with Chinese PLA. In the past years, many times US authorities and private industry have accused Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei of cyber espionage, let’s remind also that Symantec has broken its joint-venture with the […]