NSA

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2018
Researchers ported the NSA  EternalSynergy, EternalRomance, and EternalChampion to Metasploit

Security researcher Sean Dillon ported three NSA-linked exploits, EternalSynergy, EternalRomance, and EternalChampion, to the Metasploit platform. The security researcher at RiskSense Sean Dillon (@zerosum0x0) ported the Rapid7 Metasploit three hacking tools supposedly stolen from the NSA-linked Equation Group. The researcher modified the exploits to use them also against latest windows versions and merged them into the Metasploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2018
Crime ring linked to Luminosity RAT dismantled by an international law enforcement operation

The Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre along with the UK NSA disclosed the details of an international law enforcement operation that dismantled a crime ring linked to Luminosity RAT. The Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) along with the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) disclosed the details of an international law enforcement operation that targeted the criminal ecosystem around the Luminosity […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2018
Leaked memo suggest NSA and US Army compromised Tor, I2P, VPNs and want to unmask Monero users

The image of a memo leaked online suggests US Army and NSA are able to unmask Tor, I2P, VPNs users and they are working to track Monero, US Army and NSA are able to unmask Tor, I2P, VPNs users and they are working to track Monero, this is the truth revealed by a photo alleged leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Why are we all silent on the surveillance?

Silicon Valley with its bright minds has come to a point where almost every day they collect information about individuals. Why are we all silent on the surveillance? NSA spying apart, what Facebook, Apple, and Google know about their usual users is quite overwhelming. Each of these major players is trying to find more about us. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
WannaMine, the sophisticated crypto miner that spreads via NSA EternalBlue exploit

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike spotted a new Monero crypto-mining worm dubbed WannaMine that spreads leveraging the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. This morning I wrote about the Smominru botnet that used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems, and I explained that other threat actors are using similar techniques to mine cryptocurrency. This is the case of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The number of cyber attacks against the cryptocurrency sector continues, vxers are focusing their efforts on the development of cryptocurrency/miner malware. Recently security experts observed cryptocurrency miners leveraging the NSA EternalBlue SMB exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2018
The US Global surveillance bill has been signed by President Trump

US Government missed a historic opportunity to reform a dangerous surveillance law that opens to a global surveillance, instead it has signed a version that makes it worse. The U.S. legal framework related to the domestic surveillance has been signed by President Trump one day after the Senate approved it with 65 votes against 34. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 08, 2018
US National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers to Retire

After a four-year term, the National Security Agency Director Admiral Mike Rogers plans to retire, he sent a letter to its staff on Friday informing them that he would depart next spring. After a four-year term, the National Security Agency chief Admiral Mike Rogers plans to retire within months. The Admiral Mike Rogers was chosen by President Barack Obama in 2014 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 28, 2017
Top Secret US Army and NSA documents left exposed on Amazon S3 bucket

The experts from the security firm UpGuard have discovered another S3 bucket containing documents from INSCOM, that is a joint US Army and NSA agency. A couple of weeks ago sensitive data from the US Army’s CENTCOM and PACOM divisions was exposed on an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket, experts from the security firm UpGuard found terabytes of US military social media […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2017
Experts can hack most CPUs since 2008 over USB by triggering Intel Management Engine flaw

Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs since 2008. Experts from Positive Technologies that in September announced to have devised a technique a to attack the Intel Management Engine, now provided more details about […]