cyber espionage

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2014
Soghoian on government surveillance through service update process

Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, explained that government surveillance could exploit service update process. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the American Civil Liberties Union, during the recent TrustyCon conference highlighted the possibility that the government will exploit automated update services to serve malware and spy on users. Is this the next […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2014
Unveiled network of surveillance based on RCS of Hacking Team

Citizen Lab published detailed information on the surveillance network based on RCS spyware designed by the Italian firm Hacking Team. The nonprofit research team Citizen Lab has discovered the presence of a spyware developed by the Italian Hacking Team in 21 countries. The news doesn’t surprise security community, despite Hacking Team firm always denies any involvement in cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2014
iBanking Mobile Bot Source Code available for sale in the underground

iBanking is a new mobile banking Trojan available for sale in the underground for $5,000 according the RSA’s FraudAction Group.  The source code for iBanking banking trojan has been leaked online through an underground forum, this kind of news reports a serious threat from the cybercrime ecosystem. Like happened for other trojan, including Zeus and Carberp, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2014
Banking trojan hit a large number of Islamic Mobile Banking Customers

Security researchers at InterCrawler discovered a Banking trojan which infected a large number of devices the Middle East belonging to Islamic Banks. IntelCrawler cyber intelligence firm discovered a large fraud campaign against major Islamic banking institutions. The attackers have used a sizable mobile botnet, more than 27 000 intercepted SMS-messages were detected between April 2013 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2014
Unclassified NSA memorandum provides further details on Snowden case

An unclassified NSA memorandum disclosed by the NBC News reveals Snowden allegedly managed to access classified documentation stealing coworker’s passwords. The hypothesis that Edward Snowden has operated using a simple web-crawler is very curious, how is it possible that a lonely consultant had access to a so huge collection of documents from NSA archives? Why Does […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2014
The Mask – the most sophisticated APT operation seen to date

Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit,Costin Raiu revealed details on The Mask campaign, the most sophisticated operation they’ve seen to date. The Kaspersky team recently announced to have detected a new significant APT campaign dubbed The Mask or “Careto” (Spanish for “Ugly Face” or “Mask”), a group of high-level state-sponsored hackers have been targeting government agencies, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2014
Snowden has leaked secret documents with a common web crawler

According an internal investigation Snowden has leaked the secret NSA’documents using a web crawler software designed to search, index and backup a website. The last assumption of the Snowden case is related to the way the whistleblower has collected the huge quantity of secret document from the National Security Agency (NSA). The leaked documents have shown […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2014
Cost of conducting APT campaigns is dramatically dropping

Speaking at Kaspersky Lab’s Industry Analyst Summit Costin Raiu, revealed that the cost for APT campaign is dramatically dropping. The cost of developing advanced malware has fallen dramatically malicious code like Stuxnet and Flame are today economically more affordable. It has been estimated that the expense for the development of a cyber weapon like Stuxnet,or for a […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2014
Disconcerting Report on cybersecurity for US Government entities

A report issued by The Federal Government’s Track Record provides a scaring picture on cybersecurity for US Government entities. The US Government is a privileged target for cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists, for years now, officials and politicians have warned of the risks related to a cyber attack. Leon Panetta, former Director of the Central […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2014
US Intelligence warns on Counterintelligence and cyber espionage

Intelligence officials now view the threat from counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country. Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week, they highlighted the top risks to national security. Let’s give a look to the list, cybersecurity  is still perceived […]