ISIS

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2015
India blocks 32 Sites to fight the ISIS. Censorship will not stop the terrorism

India is asking to ISPs operating in the country to block a list of websites, including GitHub and Vimeo, to prevent the publication of the ISIS material. In this week we have discussed about the Chinese censorship China and the alleged block of Gmail service in the country, unfortunately the Government of Beijing isn’t the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2014
ISIS operates spear phishing attacks against a Syrian citizen media group

A Syrian citizen media group critical of ISIS was recently targeted in a spear phishing campaign which aim to de-anonymize its members. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is accused to have run cyber attacks against the Syrian citizen media group known as Raqqah is being Slaughtered Silently (RSS), the news was reported by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2014
ISIS keeps getting better at avoiding US surveillance

Speaking before the House Armed Services Committee the US Defense is worried by the capabilities of the ISIS members for keeping their communications covert. Last week American officials had yet another meeting to discuss about the difficulties to track the ISIS militants, emblematic is the case of the alleged death of its leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi disproved by […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2014
ISIS Hacked Keighley Cougars Rugby Team’s Website

A group of hackers supporting the ISIS hacked the Keighley Cougars rugby team’s website, the attackers defaced the website with pro ISIS slogans. Keighley Cougars rugby team’s website has been hacked by Islamic extremists, ISIS. Users who tried to the website on Sunday were met by a black web page featuring “Hacked By Team System […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2014
ISIS issued a manual for a safe use of Twitter and other media

The ISIS has released a manual for its militants, titled “How to Tweet Safely Without Giving out Your Location to NSA”, that explain how avoid surveillance. Security and media consider the ISIS a group with great cyber capabilities, last news of the IS is related to the diffusion of a Training Guide for its members to prevent the NSA spying. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2014
ECIPS Issues Extensive Security Border Alert for ISIS Infiltration

The European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) issued a extensive alert to borders after the announcement of President Obama on Wednesday to proceed with Airstrikes against ISIS targets. The ECIPS President Baretzky said that this warrants an immediate alert to border police to bring awareness throughout the EU and its allies in contagement […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2014
ISIS is ramping up efforts to mount a massive cyber attack

Extremists groups of ISIS and Al Qaeda are ramping up efforts to launch major cyber attacks on Western Critical Infrastructure to set up digital Caliphate. In time I’m writing the ISIS has released a new video purporting to show the beheading of British hostage David Haines, the group has started again to flood the social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2014
Al-Qaeda usage of encryption after Snowden leaks (Part 2)

Web Intelligence experts at Recorded Future issued the second part of the analysis on the usage of encryption by Al-Qaeda after the Snowden leaks. In May 2014 web intelligence firm Recorded Future published an interesting research on the use of encryption made by Al-Qaeda after the Snowden leaks. The study reported that members of Al-Qaeda are developing […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2014
Implications of the crisis in Iraq in the cyberspace

Security Experts at Intelligence firm InterCrawler have analyzed the effect of the crisis in Iraq on the malicious activities in the cyberspace. Cyber threat intelligence firm IntelCrawler has published an interesting post on the repercussion of Iraq Civil disorder on the cyberspace, the company has analyzed the activities within the Iraqi ISP industry discovering worrying signals. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 30, 2014
OpNO2ISIS Anonymous will attack states supporting ISIS group

Anonymous has announced the campaign dubbed Operation NO2ISIS against some states it accuses of supporting the Islamic terror group ISIS. The group of hacktivists Anonymous has announced a new campaign dubbed Operation NO2ISIS against some nations it accuses of funding or arming the radical Islamic terror group ISIS. In particular Anonymous will target three states suspected of […]