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Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2018

US Government is asking allies to ban Huawei equipment

US Government is inviting its allies to exclude Huawei equipment from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures, reports the Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies to exclude Huawei from critical infrastructure and 5G architectures. The United States is highlighting the risks for national security in case of adoption of Huawei […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2018

Chinese TEMP.Periscope cyberespionage group was using TTPs associated with Russian APTs

Chinese TEMP.Periscope cyberespionage group targeted a UK-based engineering company using TTPs associated with Russia-linked APT groups. Attribution of cyber attacks is always a hard task, in many cases attackers use false flags to masquerade their identities. Chinese hackers have targeted a UK-based engineering company using techniques and artifacts attributed to the Russia-linked APT groups Dragonfly and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2018

Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Chinese intelligence officers recruited hackers and insiders to hack aerospace and tech firms. US DoJ accuses the Chinese intelligence to have recruited hackers and insiders to steal confidential information from companies in aerospace and tech companies. US intelligence believes that the cyber espionage operation was under the control of Zha […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2018

MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Yoroi security firm uncovered a targeted attack against one of the most important companies in the Italian Naval Industry leveraging MartyMcFly Malware. Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here). The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2018

Russia-linked APT group DustSquad targets diplomatic entities in Central Asia

Kaspersky experts published a detailed analysis of the attacks conducted by the Russian-linked cyber espionage group DustSquad. Earlier October, security experts from ESET shared details about the operations of a cyber espionage group tracked as Nomadic Octopus, a threat actor focused on diplomatic entities in Central Asia. The group has been active since at least 2015, ESET researchers presented […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2018

New Gallmaker APT group eschews malware in cyber espionage campaigns

A previously unknown cyber espionage group, tracked as Gallmaker, has been targeting entities in the government, military and defense sectors since at least 2017. A new cyber espionage group tracked as Gallmaker appeared in the threat landscape. According to researchers from Symantec, who first spotted the threat actor, the group has launched attacks on several overseas embassies […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2018

Kaspersky shed lights on the overlap of operations conducted by Turla and Sofacy

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab collected evidence that demonstrates overlaps between the activity of Russian APT groups Turla and Sofacy. In March, during the Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit held in Cancun, Kurt Baumgartner, Kaspersky principal security researcher, revealed the activity associated with Sofacy APT group appears to overlap with campaigns conducted by other cyber espionage groups. Baumgartner […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018

US DoJ indicted 7 Russian Intelligence officers for attacking Anti-Doping Organizations

US DoJ indicted seven defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. The news of the day is that a US DoJ indicted seven defendants working for the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU), for hacking, wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering. The defendants are […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018

DHS issued an alert on attacks aimed at Managed Service Providers

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning of ongoing activity from an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor targeting global managed service providers (MSPs). The DHS issued an alert on ongoing attacks aimed at global managed service providers (MSPs) that are carried out by an advanced APT group. Managed services is the practice of outsourcing on a […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 05, 2018

Canada blames Russia for cyber attacks against its structures

The Government of Canada blamed the GRU, the Russian military’s intelligence agency, for cyber attacks at the Montreal-based World Anti-Doping Agency. “The government of Canada assesses with high confidence that the Russian military’s intelligence arm, the GRU, was responsible” for these cyber attacks, the foreign ministry said in a statement. [cyber attacks are] “part of a broader […]

cyber espionage

US Government is asking allies to ban Huawei equipment

Chinese TEMP.Periscope cyberespionage group was using TTPs associated with Russian APTs

Cyber mercenaries and insiders hired by Chinese intelligence to hack aerospace and tech firms

MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Russia-linked APT group DustSquad targets diplomatic entities in Central Asia

New Gallmaker APT group eschews malware in cyber espionage campaigns

Kaspersky shed lights on the overlap of operations conducted by Turla and Sofacy

US DoJ indicted 7 Russian Intelligence officers for attacking Anti-Doping Organizations

DHS issued an alert on attacks aimed at Managed Service Providers

Canada blames Russia for cyber attacks against its structures

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