Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2017
According to a German top official, Germany warded off two cyber attacks launched by the Russian state actor APT28 group in 2016. On Friday, a top German official told Reuters that last year Germany warded off two cyber attacks launched by the Russian APT28 group (aka Fancy Bear, Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, and Strontium) According to Arne Schoenbohm, president of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2017
The UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is warning of Russian political hacking capabilities, the risk of cyber attacks against the political system is high. The alert was raised by the UK National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) that is informing political parties in the UK to warn about “the potential for hostile action against the UK political […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
Experts from security firm Sixgill have discovered a new strain of the macOS Proton RAT that is offered for sale on Russian cybercrime underground. The Dark Web is the right place where to find any kind of illegal products and services, malware such as banking trojan and spyware are very popular in cyber criminal underground. Recently a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2017
In December 2016 two Russian state security officers and a cyber security expert in Moscow were charged with treason due allegations made 7 years ago. In December 2016 two Russian state security officers and a cyber-security expert in Moscow were charged with treason due to the allegations made by a Russian businessman seven years ago. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2017
For the second time in a few months Montenegro suffered massive and prolonged cyberattacks against government and media websites. According to the Balkan Insight, attackers have launched a renewed attack on the Montenegrin government and media. The last wave of cyber attacks started on February 15 and lasted several days, according to the government experts it was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2017
Researchers at ESET are monitoring the activity of a cybercrime group tracked as RTM that focuses its criminal operations on Remote Banking Systems. Experts at software firm ESET are monitoring the activity of a cybercrime group tracked as RTM that using a sophisticated malware written in Delphi language to target Remote Banking Systems (RBS). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2017
Top NATO General Petr Pavel confirmed that Russian propaganda was behind a false report of a rape by German soldiers in Lithuania. Psychological Operations are not a novelty in the military and Russia demonstrated a great ability in the adoption of such techniques. Top NATO General Petr Pavel confirmed that Russia was behind a false report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2017
Ukraine blames Russia for a new wave of cyber attacks on its infrastructure, including the power grid and financial system. This week Ukraine accused Russia of cyber attacks against its critical infrastructure, including power grid and financial systems. State-sponsored hackers used a new strain of malware that targets industrial processes, the malicious code looked like it was designed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2017
Lorenzo Bicchierai from MotherBoard shared an interesting private report about Russian cyber espionage operations conducted by APT28, the document was leaked online by Google. The report dating 2014 includes information collected by Google on the hacking activities conducted by its hackers. In October 2014, the security experts at FireEye linked cyber attacks against a number of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2017
Security experts at Bitdefender discovered a MAC OS version of the X-Agent malware used by the Russian APT28 cyberespionage group. Security experts at BitDefender have discovered a MAC OS malware program that’s likely part of the arsenal of the dreaded Russian APT 28 group (aka Pawn Storm, Sednit, Sofacy, Fancy Bear and Tsar Team). The Russian nation-state actor was involved […]
