Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2016
The Russian Sandworm APT group if the first suspect for the Ukrainian power outage, states experts at eiSight Partners. According to a report published by experts at eiSight Partners the cyber attack against a Ukraine power station has been managed by a Russian group called Sandworm. A few days ago experts at ESET reported the existence of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2016
Hackers cause power outage with the BlackEnergy malware in Ukraine. Is it an Information warfare act? Cyber security of ICS e SCADA systems in the critical infrastructure is essential, these components are a privileged target of cyber criminals and state sponsor hackers. The most popular SCADA attack in the history is the one conducted against control systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2016
Alleged Turkish hackers have taken over the Russian Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov’s Instagram account. Events in the cyberspace are strictly correlated with facts in the real life, in many cases, disputes between countries are associated with numerous cyber events that could be analyzed by intelligence analysts. The recent crisis in Crimea between Russia and Ukraine is just […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2015
The Ukrainian Government is blaming Russians state-sponsored hackers for several electricity cut-offs that occurred in Western Ukraine. The Ukrainian Government is suffering a series of power outages in the Western region of the country, likely caused by cyber attacks. The Ukrainian Government believes that the power outages are caused by operations conducted by Russian nation-state […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2015
Turkish systems are suffering a major cyber attack which is causing serious problems to organizations in the country. Is is an act of Information warfare? On Thursday, the non-governmental organization Nic.tr that manages IP addresses assigned to Turkish websites (the “tr” domain) confirmed that the Turkish Internet servers are suffering a powerful cyber attack that appeared […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2015
Security researchers from ESET uncovered the Roaming Tiger hacking campaign, bad actors in the wild are targeting Russian organizations. Roaming Tiger is the name of a cyber espionage campaign targeting high profile organizations in Russia and former Soviet Union countries, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. The Roaming Tiger campaign was discovered by experts at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2015
Russia will deploy jamming systems in Syria to protect its air forces and prevent attacks against its aircraft. The Russian army in Syria is planning to launch electronic warfare in the country with the institution of jamming systems. The jamming systems are an essential component of the Russian military strategy that aims to prevent attacks against its troops in the area. On Tuesday, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2015
Russian criminals Steal $4 Million In cash with a new technique dubbed reverse ATM Attack. Russian hackers have adopted a new technique, dubbed Reverse ATM Attack to steal Millions of dollars from ATMs of financial institutions. According to the experts at security firm GroupIB, the Reverse ATM Attack allowed criminal rings in Russia to steal 252 Million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2015
A Russian manufacturer has built an advanced system for the protection of any channels of telephone communication against wiretapping. The Russian Government has a new system for the protection of communication channels against the wiretapping, the news was disclosed by the director general of the Interstate Corporation of Development (ICD), Ivan Polyakov, and it was reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Malware researchers at Check Point Technologies have discovered a new offline ransomware that is targeting mainly Russian users. Malware researchers at Check Point Technologies have spotted a new “offline” ransomware that is targeting Russian users. The principal characteristic of this strain of malware is that it doesn’t need to communicate with a command and control […]
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