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Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
Middle East Government organizations hit with RanRan Ransomware

Palo Alto Networks discovered a new strain of ransomware, dubbed RanRan ransomware, that has been used in targeted attacks in Middle East. Malware researchers at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a new strain of ransomware, dubbed RanRan, that has been used in targeted attacks against government organizations in the Middle East. “Recently, Unit 42 has observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2016
Operation Ghoul targeted more than 130 organizations in 30 countries

Kaspersky Lab discovered the Operation Ghoul, a campaign targeting industrial, manufacturing and engineering organizations in more than 30 countries. Security experts from Kaspersky have discovered a profit-driven campaign dubbed Operation Ghoul. Threat actors behind the Operation Ghoul targeted more than 130 organizations in 30 countries, including companies operating in the industrial and engineering sectors. Hackers targeted mainly […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2015
Iranian Hackers focus their efforts in Android RATs

A research published by RecordedFuture demonstrates that the interest in Android RATs of Iranian Hackers is rising, DroidJack and AndroRAT are most popular. According to the threat researcher Rodrigo Bijou (@rodrigobijou), Iranian malware authors are focusing their efforts on mobile RATs, in particular, malicious codes designed to compromise Android devices. The security experts confirmed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2015
Thamar Reservoir – Iranian hackers target entities in Middle East

Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2015
Ali Baba, the APT group from the Middle East

Adrian Nish of BAE System presented the results of its investigation on the Ali Baba APT group operating from the Middle East that hit Western companies. Yesterday the Kaspersky Lab team revealed the results of its investigation on the hacking crew dubbed the Equation group, a team of hackers that demonstrate extraordinary capabilities and sophisticated tactics, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 16, 2014
Citadel Trojan targets energy industry in Middle East

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 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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2014
Unrecom phishing campaign hit high-profile entities globally

Security Experts at Fidelis Cyber Security firm have recently discovered a new phishing campaign using the Unrecom RAT (remote access trojan). Fidelis Cyber Security firm has recently issued the Fidelis Threat Advisory #1013 to detail a phishing campaign using the Unrecom RAT (remote access trojan). Experts at Fidelis during the last two weeks have observed an increase […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 03, 2014
Security threat landscape in the Middle East … the mined cyber area

Analysis of the cyber threat landscape in the Middle East region provided by Tim Rains, director of Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, at RSA 2014. Middle East is historically a critical area for the diplomacy, but there is the same critical under the cyber security profile. The governments, the enterprises and the organizations present in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014
Israeli Defense computer hacked via spear phishing attack

Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Reuters agency […]

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