Intelligence

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2015
Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT hacked by the Intelligence

The Dark Web email service SIGAINT suffered a major attack that involved 70  exit nodes, a circumstance that suggests Government operation. Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies are always involved in the infiltration of Darknets and related services with the primary intent to monitor bad actors and de-anonymize users. The Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT is one […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2015
How to discover NSA Quantum Insert attacks on your systems

Security experts at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA Quantum Insert attacks and have published an interesting post on the hacking practice. Security researchers at Fox-IT have developed a method for detecting NSA hacking activity operated through the Quantum Insert-style hacks. The team of experts has published free open-source tools to detect duplicate […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015
Encryption Increases Its Popularity and US Is in a Dilemma

Encryption has been used by more people over time and this has led to the NSA and the US Government to suggest new ways of accessing encrypted content. The uprising course of encryption and the fact that its use has become a lot more frequent and continues on increasing in popularity has made the United States wonder how they […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2015
APT30 behind a long-running cyber espionage campaign

Researchers at FireEye uncovered a new threat actor dubbed APT30 that run a decade-long cyber espionage campaign backed by the Chinese Government. Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a new long-running cyber espionage campaign, the researchers speculate that the campaign is active since at least 2005. The threat actor behind the campaign was dubbed APT30 by the researchers, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2015
Snowden keeps saying that US is still catching our emails

The British television host scored a rare one-on-one interview in Moscow with Edward Snowden for the Sunday’s edition of the “John Oliver Tonight” show. A British channel hosted a rare interview with Snowden in Moscow, the interview was conducted by John Oliver from “John Oliver Tonight.” Aside from jokes like “Do you miss a hot […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2015
How SEA hacked email accounts of Assad’s opponents

Motherboard published an interesting report on an espionage campaign led by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) against the opponents of the Syrian Government. Today I decided to present a very interesting story published by Lorenzo Francesco Bicchierai on Motherboard. It is a story about intelligence activities and how hacking supported them. Let’s start from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2015
PRESIDENT OF ECIPS, MR BARETZKY SPEAKS AT 2015

President of ECIPS warns of cyber terror problems ahead at C I P R congress.  Terrorism is evolving with cyber warfare capability. Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience meetings were attended by almost every agency in EU and US defense department. The Critical Border Cyber Defense Infrastructure of the EU Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience     […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2015
Slides reveal Canadian CSE secret hacking capabilities

The last collection of top-secret slides leaked by Snowden and disclosed by media agencies reveal the hacking capabilities and platforms of Canadian CSE. The last collection of top-secret documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, and published by The Intercept  and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,  leaked documents reveal the Canadians are a dab hand at cyber-stuff, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2015
ISIS cell calls on supporters to kill 100 US military personnel

A cell of the ISIS has called on its members and backers in the US to kill 100 service members whose names, photos and addresses it posted online. The ISIS continues to scare the West, its operations are supported by a very aggressive media campaign that shares proclamations and recruit new followers in the name […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2015
Babar and Casper, two Malware likely designed by the French Intelligence

After Babar malware, security researchers detected a new strain of malware dubbed Casper that appears to be linked to the France Intelligence. Surveillance is the primary goal of Intelligence Agencies worldwide, a few weeks ago cyber security researchers detected a new malware, dubbed Babar, that is considered a product of the French intelligence. According to the […]