Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2012
Big outcry on Wikileaks that last week has published more that 2.4 million emails allegedly obtained from continuous hack against Syrian government and organizations connected to the regime. The correspondence of “Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies” between August 2006 and March 2012 has been defined embarrassing for the government of Damascus and its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2012
It’s been long debated the need to protect critical infrastructures from cyber attacks, cyber threats could hit foreign countries causing loss of human lives identically to a conventional attack. Don’t forget that similar attacks con be organized by state-sponsored hackers or cyber criminals with the different purposes, target destroying or cyber espionage. Emergency Response Teams […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2012
The story begins in November 2011 when in Estonia was arrested a group of persons accused of having developed the dreaded trojan that seems to be able to spread with surprising ease building a scary botnet. The botnet operated by Rove Digital altered user DNS settings, pointing victims to malicious DNS in data centers in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2012
On June 28th, a FBI official declared before a House panel that the phenomenon of cyber espionage is increasing with an alarming trend. We are living a period of great crisis and the intellectual property is becoming a privileged target for cyber attacks. It has been estimated that the economic espionage in the current fiscal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 04, 2012
We all remember the Citadel trojan, based on the Zeus experience has evolved becoming one of the most interesting cyber criminal project. Few months ago I wrote on the excellent customer relationship management (CRM) model implemented by its creators. Thanks a malware evolution dictated by market needs, the trojan has evolved in time, many instances […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2012
Last week a saw a satellite image taken by Google Earth related to a mysterious vehicle, apparently an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), parked at Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works facility in Palmdale, California. “Skunk Works” LM’s Advanced Development Program Facility is where some of the most futuristic and secret projects are developed. The image was dated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 30, 2012
Another excellent discovery of the active experts of Kaspersky Labs that have identified a new variant of the malware used in Tibet against Uyghur hacktivists, a Turkic ethnic group living in Eastern and Central Asia. The instance of Tibet malware detected infects OS X machines and is spread following a consolidated schema for politically motivated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2012
Last Christmas the Stratfor Global Intelligence was hacked by Anonymous who disclosed company website and also the full client list of over 4000 individuals and corporations. The hacker gained access to a subscriber list stored on stratfor.com, and that list contained unencrypted credit card data. Stratfor is an organization that gathers open source intelligence which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2012
The news has creating great surprise in the security community, a group of computer scientist has declared that has cracked the RSA SecurID encryption model. The news is sensational due the large diffusion of the tokens for the implementation of PKI infrastructures in both private and government sectors. RSA SecurID, is a mechanism developed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2012
It’s not first time we discuss of cybercrime and in particular of its organizational models, creative servicex offer any kind of support to organizations and individuals that desire to conduct an attack against specific target. Cyber criminals in the past have already used cloud architectures to rent computational resources to involve in powerful cyber attacks. […]
