Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2014
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
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
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
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
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 leaked documents, analyzed by Der Spiegel and The Times, report that the NSA has hacked Huawei’s network to demonstrate the link with the Chinese PLA. In the past years, many times US authorities and private industry have accused Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei of cyber espionage. Let’s also remind that Symantec has broken its joint-venture with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2014
The intelligence firm IntelCrawler has published a report on the activities of the Syrian Electronic Army. Are they hacktivists or cyber spies? IntelCrawler, a cyber-threat intelligence company has recently issued an interesting report on the activities of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the experts analyzed a series of event since since its first appearance in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2014
Google has announced to have adopted encrypt mechanisms for all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users. Google decided to encrypt all Gmail connections to reply to the increasing demand of privacy of Internet users, all the links between its data centers will be encrypted. The surveillance programs disclosed by documents leaked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2014
Google DNS public server was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes, the victims were hijacked to the Latin America division of BT in Venezuela and Brazil. Google is undoubtedly the main targets for hackers, its services are accessed daily by billions of Internet users, a wide audience desirable for attackers. The last successfully attack against Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2014
The agent.btz malware may have served as starting point for malware Turla and the malicious code used in the Red October campaign. In the last weeks we have discussed about the Snake platform used in a large-scale cyber espionage campaign that targeted highly secured systems belonging to Governments and Military all over the world. Experts […]
