Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2021
The U.S. Department of Justice was to assign investigation on ransomware attacks the same priority as terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. The U.S. Department of Justice plans to equate investigations into ransomware attacks with investigations into terrorism in the wake of the Colonial Pipeline hack. Colonial Pipeline before, and recently the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2020
Norway ‘s government blames Russia for the cyber attack that targeted the email system of the country’s parliament in August. Norway ‘s government is blaming Russia for the cyberattack that targeted the email system of the country’s parliament this summer. At the end of August, Norwayâs parliament Stortinget announced that it was the target of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2020
The hacker who shared with the ISIS personal data of more than 1,300 U.S. government and military personnel will remain in a federal prison. Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, is the hacker that supported the ISIS organization by handing over data for 1,351 US government and military personnel. Ferizi is the first man charged with cyber terrorism that was extradited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2019
US authorities arrested Thomas Osadzinski, a student at DePaul University, because he allegedly built a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS. Thomas Osadzinski (20), a student at DePaul University, Chicago, was arrested because he allegedly built a custom Gentoo Linux distro for ISIS, he could now face up to 20 years in prison. The Chicago […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2019
ProtonMail back after the Russian government has been attempting to prevent Russian citizens from sending messages to ProtonMail. ProtonMail is now running normally in Russia, the popular encrypted email service was blocked after students at a sports competition were using it to spread anti-regime propaganda. The Russian news aggregator service Habr reported that Russian telcos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2018
The Israel Defense Forces has bid to obtain spying systems that will allow monitoring of the private messages of social media users. Monitoring of social media platforms is a crucial activity for intelligence agencies, almost any government is working to gather intelligence for these systems. According to the Haaretz, the Israel Defense Forces has bid to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2017
ISIS & Al Qaeda: Whatâs Coming Down the Line for the U.S. in 2018. From drones to chemical attacks, which are the major risks? Last month, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warned that, “our enemies remain focused on attacking the United States, and they are constantly adapting. DHS and its partners are stepping up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2017
FBI director Christopher Wray warns of terrorists are planning to use drones in attacks, the threat is considered as imminent. This week, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that terrorists may use drones in attacks against the United States, the official described the threat as imminent. “We do know that terrorist organizations have an interest in using […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2017
United Cyber Caliphate members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication tools and used to search them into the criminal underground. According to Kyle Wilhoit, a senior security researcher at DomainTools, who made a speech at the DerbyCon hacking conference in US, ISIS members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2017
Twitter published its Transparency Report related to H1 2017, the company suspended 935,897 accounts for the promotion of terrorism. Twitter suspends 299,000 accounts linked to terrorism in the first six months of 2017, the company revealed that 75 percent of the infringing accounts were suspended before their first tweet confirming the huge efforts in fighting online […]
