Iran

Pierluigi Paganini September 28, 2012
Are they Islamic hacktivists? In the meantime Netanyahu draws a red line

Last Wednesday the web site of U.S. Bank has been hit by a DDoS attack, that caused its block, launched by a group of Islamic hacktivists who have claimed responsibility for event. The web site remained down for an hour, starting at around 3:30 Pacific, due the impossibility to serve the huge quantity of requests. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2012
Iran,increasing tension with Western countries under cyber perspective

The tensions between Iran and Western countries are always in the principal news, the fear for an imminent Israel attack raises many questions regarding the real level of military preparedness of the regime. Many experts have tried to analyzed a possible scenario of the attack, in which the cyber component could assume a strategic importance. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2012
Analisys on Flame C&C, the cyber war began long ago

In May Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination CenterLab,  CrySyS Lab and Kaspersky Lab have published a news regarding a new malware that has been detected and that have hit mainly Windows systems of Middle East area, specifically the Iran. The malware was evidence of a huge ongoing cyber espionage campaign, the level of complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2012
Wiper, assumptions and difficulties analyzing a malware

During last April many press agencies and security firms published a story related to the detection of a new malware, named Wiper that attacked computers at businesses throughout Iran. Kaspersky Lab and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) investigated on the event trying to isolate the malware and analyze it. During the investigation the team of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2012
Iran suspected for the attack on the Saudi Aramco

Last week it was announced by Saudi Arabia’s oil company, Saudi Aramco that its systems and its internal network were victims of a cyber attack. Recently the company has given more info on the incident declaring that the systems are back up after the attack made by a virus that infected 30,000 work stations. All […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2012
Shamoon Malware, cyber espionage tool, cyber weapon or …

Shamoon is a new threat that scares security experts, it is able to destroy files on victim’s PC and overwrite the master boot record of its disks. The cyberspace has no peace, every time a malware or a botnet is detected and neutralized a new cyber threat is coming, this time a new agent scare […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2012
How Israel will attack Iran? Is it reality or imagination?

We have long discussed the possibility of an Israeli attack against Iran, security experts have long sought leave signs that presage an imminent attack trying to figure out how I can take it. We all know about the potential of Israeli military, a war machine that could scare the big of the planet and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2012
Mahdi campaign, ongoing cyber-espionage in the Middle East

Again another great investigation of the excellent team of Kaspersky lab and its partner Seculert firm has discovered an ongoing campaign to conduct a large scale infiltration of computer systems in the Middle East area. The campaign has targeted individuals across several states of the area such as Iran, Afghanistan and also Israel. The operation […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 24, 2012
Cyber war, the strategic importance of the defense

I was reading an interesting article on the cyber wars I was attracted by the comparison of Stuxnet to the first nuclear bomb detonated at a site nicknamed Trinity in the barren Jornada del Muerto desert of New Mexico on  July 16, 1945. Although the comparison must be done with the proper proportions, it summarizes […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 23, 2012
The mystery of a massive cyber attack on Iran

Winds of cyber war blow Iran, the political situation is becoming difficult to manage, exacerbating the tones of a psychological battle growing. After the publishing of the news regarding the genesis of Stuxnet and Flame every actor of the conflict has increased the effort on cyber warfare especially on cyber defense fearing an imminent cyber […]