Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
Three Dutch Banks (ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank) and Tax Agency were targeted by a coordinated DDoS Attacks a few days the revelation of the Russian APT Hack. Early this week a massive DDoS attack targeted three Dutch banks, ABN AMRO, ING Bank, Rabobank, and the Dutch Taxation Authority (Belastingdienst). The attack against the system of ABN AMRO started over the weekend, while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted by Russian Fancy Bear APT group (aka Sednit, APT28, and Sofacy, Pawn Storm, and Strontium) are even more sophisticated and hard to detect due to. According to a new report published by experts from security firm ESET, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2017
British Armed Forces chief has warned that Russia could compromise underwater communication cables causing severe damage to the financial global economy It came as silently as a fatal heart stroke, and now the dangers of Russian Cyber Warfare materializes into reality. Join us to uncover this cripple and stealth threat to our global community. As […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2017
Traffic for Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants routed through Russia, experts believe it was an intentional BGP Hijacking. Last week a suspicious event routed traffic for major tech companies (i.e. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider. The event occurred on Wednesday, researchers who investigated it believe the traffic […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2017
The United States Department of Justice has gathered evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials involved in the 2016 DNC hack. The United States Department of Justice has gathered evidence to charge at least six Russian government officials involved in the DNC hack during the 2016 Presidential election. In the past months, US intelligence blamed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2017
Russian cyber espionage group APT28 targeted individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Researchers with Cisco Talos have spotted a Russian cyber espionage group targeting individuals with spear-phishing messages using documents referencing a NATO cybersecurity conference. Experts attributed the attack to the dreaded Russian APT28 group, aka Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Group 74, Sednit, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2017
The APT28 group is trying to exploit the CVE-2017-11292 Flash zero-day before users receive patches or update their systems. Security experts at Proofpoint collected evidence of several malware campaigns, powered by the Russian APT28 group, that rely on a Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe patched earlier this week. According to the experts who observed attacks on organizations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2017
The financially-motivated FIN7 APT group (also known as Carbanak or Anunak) recently changed attack technique again to evade detection. The financially-motivated FIN7 APT group (also known as Carbanak or Anunak) recently changed attack technique again and has been implementing a new malware obfuscation method. The group that has been active since late 2015, it was highly active since the beginning of 2017. Fin7 was spotted early […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2017
HPE gave Russian gov access to review ArcSight software that is currently used by corporate and government entities worldwide, including the Pentagon. The recent news of the alleged hack of Kaspersky products to steal NSA exploit from the personal PC of a US contractor has put in the background another equally worrying news. Another tech giant has […]
