Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2020
Britain and the United governments blame Russia for being behind a destructive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. The governments of Britain and the US declared that Russia’s military intelligence service GRU is behind the massive cyber attack that hit Georgia during 2019. In October 2019, a wave of cyber attacks hit 2,000 websites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2020
Tutanota, the popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email software, has been blocked by Russian authorities. The popular free and open-source end-to-end encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in Russia on Friday evening. Since early February, the Russian government has blocked other encrypted email and VPN services in Russia, including ProtonMail and ProtonVPN VPN service. Tutanota is listed in the registry of blocked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2020
Russia’s Roskomnadzor watchdog wants to fine Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. Russia’s telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has instituted administrative proceedings against Facebook and Twitter after they refused to store data of Russian users on servers located in the country. “On January 31, 2020, Roskomnadzor instituted administrative […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2020
The popular ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service have been blocked by the Russian government this week. This week the Russian government has blocked the ProtonMail end-to-end encrypted email service and ProtonVPN VPN service. Roskomnadzor explained that the services were abused by cybercriminals and that Proton Technologies refused to register them with state authorities. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2020
Russia-linked cyber-espionage group hacked the Ukrainian energy company Burisma at the center of the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump. The Russian cyberspies, operating under Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency (aka Fancy Bear) carried out a spear-phishing campaign in November aimed at accessing the email of Burisma Holdings employees. The attack was detailed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2019
Computer faults that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016 were not caused by cyber attacks, a federal investigation states. On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security shared the results of an investigation on computer errors that disrupted voting in a North Carolina county in 2016, authorities were not able to associate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2019
Russia is one of the most advanced cyber states, but according to the media President Vladimir Putin ‘s personal PC is apparently still running Win XP. The news is curious and it probably has little real if not the fact that Vladimir Putin is not a super cyber security expert, although he knows its importance […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2019
Russia successfully disconnected from the internet Russia’s government announced that it has successfully concluded a series of tests for its RuNet intranet aimed at country disconnection from the Internet. The Russian Government has announced on Monday that it has successfully concluded the test on its RuNet intranet and the complete disconnection of the country from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2019
Analyzing how tactics, techniques and procedures of the Russia-linked APT28 cyberespionage group evolve over the time. APT28 is a well known Russian cyber espionage group attributed, with a medium level of confidence, to Russian military intelligence agency GRU (by CrowdStrike). It is also known as Sofacy Group (by Kaspersky) or STRONTIUM (by Microsoft) and it’s used to target Aereospace, Defence, Governmente Agencies, International […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2019
Czech police and intelligence services have identified a Russian espionage network operating having a nerve center in its Prague embassy. Czech police and intelligence services have dismantled a Russian espionage network operating that was operating via its Prague embassy. The officials were helped by peers at the National Organised Crime Centre (NCOZ). According to the […]
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