Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2017
The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, which are possible political and technological scenarios behind the recent wave of attacks? The dreaded Shamoon has resurrected, a new version called Shamoon 2Â was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks. Saudi Arabia Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)âs Abdulrahman al-Friah confirmed to Al Arabiya that at least 22 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2017
Saudi Arabia is warning organizations in the country of a resurrection of the dreaded Shamoon malware. A new strain of the Shamoon 2 malware was spotted by the security experts at Palo Alto Networks, this variant targets virtualization products. Shamoon, also known as Disttrack, was first spotted in a wave of attacks that targeted companies in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Among the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2016
Security experts from Damballa that analyzed the SFG malware confirmed that it was not designed to target SCADA systems in the energy industry Recently, experts from the SentinelOne security firm spotted a sophisticated malware dubbedSFG, a spawn of Furtim malicious code, targeting at least one European energy company. Media speculated the existence of a powerful SFG […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2016
Experts have made a disconcerting discovery on the Dark Web, they have found a sophisticated government malware that could be used to target Energy Grids. We have discussed several times about the militarization of the cyberspace and the risks that a government malware goes out of control, what about is a powerful hacking tool is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2015
A German security researcher reported hundreds of wind turbines and solar systems wide open to easy exploits worldwide due to the lack of security by design The German researcher Maxim Rupp has discovered numerous security issues in clean energy systems, including solar lighting and wind turbines. The possible consequence of a cyber attack is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2015
Which is the impact of the Windows XP End of Life on the critical infrastructure? Recently a Government audit found 48,000 XP PCs still running at TEPCO. One year ago the end of life for Microsoft Windows XP raised a heated debate on security for all the infrastructure that still adopt the popular OS. Windows XP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
Symantec has discovered a cyber espionage campaign targeting energy companies around the world by infecting them with a new malware dubbed Laziok trojan. Security experts at Symantec have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that targeted the energy industry. The threat actors behind the campaign used uses a custom-developed malware dubbed Laziok trojan to exfiltrate sensitive data from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Experts at IBM Trusteer security firms have discovered a massively distributed Citadel trojan targets Middle Eastern Petrochemical companies. Researchers at IBM Trusteer have recently discovered targeted cyber attacks using a variant of the popular Citadel trojan on several Middle Eastern petrochemical companies. The Citadel Trojan is a malware designed to steal personal information, including banking and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2014
Researchers at BlackHat discovered a Denial of Service Vulnerability in Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software EnergyWise. Researchers from ERNW GMBH revealed that misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in Cisco’s EnergyWise suite could be exploited by attackers to cause huge blackouts. The team has presented the results of their study during the last Black Hat  conference […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 21, 2014
The ICS-CERT has issued a security advisory related to the existence of OpenSSL vulnerabilities affecting different Siemens industrial products. Several Siemens industrial products are affected by four vulnerabilities in their OpenSSL implementation which could be remotely exploited to run a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack or to cause the crash of web servers of the products. Critical infrastructure […]
