Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
The annual IT security report issued by the German BSI reported that a sophisticated cyber attack on a steel factory caused severe damage. A cyber attack could cause serious damage to a production plant or a facility, we discussed several times this attack scenario that represents a nightmare for security experts and Intelligence agencies. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2014
Cyber weapons like Stuxnet will only grow in prevalence, use and sophistication and it is therefore in the interest of national security to develop advanced mitigation techniques and capabilities. The progenitor of Duqu, Flame and Gauss are reported as the authors of STUXNET. As illustrated, the trend of advancements between these four cyber weapons suggests […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2014
Sentinel Labs firm discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Gyges that is the mixing of commercial malicious code with code of alleged cyber weapon. Experts at Sentinel Labs security firm have discovered Gyges malware in the wild in March 2014, the malicious code appears very sophisticated to the researches which attributed it to a state-sponsored project. The level of complexity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2014
North Korea has doubled the number of its elite cyber warriors over the past two years and established overseas bases to run hacking attacks. The majority of people ignores that all over the world, many silent conflicts happen, the cyberspace is considered for this reason the fifth element of warfare. Unfortunately the effects of these […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2014
Reflession on the necessity to adopt a shared regulatory for the security of critical infrastructure. Eugene Kaspersky point of view on the topic. Security of critical infrastructure is a critical urgency of any government, the NIST announced the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Security, a document that proposed cybersecurity standards and practices to build out a security program. The cybersecurity […]
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2014
BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has disclosed a Russian cyber espionage campaign codenamed as SNAKE that targeted Governments and Military Networks. The British cyber specialist BAE Systems Applied Intelligence has disclosed a Russian cyber espionage campaign codenamed as SNAKE that remained undetected for a log time, at least for eight years. The malware can infiltrate Windows XP, Vista, 7 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2014
Researchers at German G Data published an interesting analysis for Uroborun rootkit alleged to be a component of Russian cyber weapons programme. Uroburos is considered an advanced rootkit that is active since as far back as 2011, it is used to infect networks belonging to high-level targets, stealing data after setting up rogue P2P networks, it targets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2014
F-Secure’s Chief Mikko Hyppönen at the TrustyCon explained the risk that Government-built malware and cyber weapons will run out of control. F-Secure’s Chief Research Officer Company Mikko Hyppönen at the TrustyCon conference in San Francisco explained that almost every government is spending a great effort to improve its cyber capabilities building a cyber weapon. “Governments writing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2014
The South Korea government is working to the development of a cyber weapon to hit North Korean nuclear facilities. It’s Information warfare. The tension between North Korea and South Korea is always high, both governments are spending a great effort to improve their cyber capabilities and to try to silently attack the neighbors. North Korea […]
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