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Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2014
Northern Gold criminal gang infected half million PCs worldwide

Proofpoint firm uncovered a malicious campaign run by the Northern Gold criminal group which is targeting online banking users with a botnet of 500,000 PCs . Security experts at Proofpoint firm have identified a Russian-speaking cybercrime gang, dubbed Northern Gold, that has compromised more than 500,000 machines worldwide to steal users’ online credentials for major banks in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2014
Espionage campaign hit embassies of former Soviet states

Security experts at Symantec detected a large-scale cyber espionage campaign which hit personnel at embassies of former Soviet states. Security researchers at Symantec discovered a large-scale cyber attack which is targeting embassies of former soviet states worldwide. The experts detected a huge cyber attack that has been carried out across more than 15 countries, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2014
Satellite images demonstrate that Ukraine is hit by pro-Russian troops across the border

The US Ambassador in Ukraine has released satellite images that prove Russia is firing rockets at Ukrainian troops across the border. The US State Department has released a collection of satellite images, via the ambassador in Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt,  that demonstrate that the Russian Army is firing rockets against Ukrainian troops located across the border. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2014
Gyges, the mixing of commercial malware with cyber weapon code

Sentinel Labs firm discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Gyges that is the mixing of commercial malicious code with code of alleged cyber weapon. Experts at Sentinel Labs security firm have discovered Gyges malware in the wild in March 2014, the malicious code appears very sophisticated to the researches which attributed it to a state-sponsored project. The level of complexity […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2014
Cybercrime exploits the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17

Security experts at TrendMicro have detected a spam campaign via Twitter which exploits the incident occurred to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17. Unfortunately, tragedies like the one occurred to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 or the recent escalation in Gaza are excellent occasions for cyber criminals that try to exploit the public attention to carry out illegal activities. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2014
Russia and Ukraine cyber dispute analyzed by FireEye

FireEye has issued data which show the intensification of activities in the cyberspace correspondent  to geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine. The Geopolitical dispute between Russia and Ukraine has its correspondence in the cyberspace, principal security experts have observed an increase in the number of cyber attacks between the two countries. Cyber units on both sides may be actively engaged in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2014
Possible evolution of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine

Intelligence Analysts analyzing signals from the cyberspace have tried to predict the evolution of the dispute between Ukraine and Russia. The correlation of the events in the reality with ongoing activities in the cyber space is an essential part of the OSINT analysis. Security experts at Recorded Future, a firm partly funded by the CIA venture capital […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2014
An overview on the Bad Bot Landscape by Distil Networks

Distil Networks security firm has published an interesting report on the Bad Bot Landscape, it is full of data on the evolution of malicious architecture. Surfing on the Internet I have found The Bad Bot Landscape Report Q1 2014 and interesting study issued by the Distil Networks security firm which provides an interesting analysis of botnet evolution detected by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2014
Ukrainian hacktivists hit NATO websites with DDoS attack

The group of hacktivists Cyber Berkut hit several NATO websites with DDoS attacks while in the Crimea is being a referendum on annexation to Russia. Several NATO websites have been hit by cyber attacks while in the Crimea is being a referendum on annexation to Russia, the news has been reported by the principal media agencies […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2014
Is the Agent.btz malware the link between Snake and Red October?

The agent.btz malware may have served as starting point for malware Turla and the malicious code used in the Red October campaign. In the last weeks we have discussed about the Snake platform used in a large-scale cyber espionage campaign that targeted highly secured systems belonging to Governments and Military all over the world. Experts […]