Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2016
According to security experts the BlackEnergy malware was a key element of the attack against Ukrainian power grid that caused the power outage. On December 23, the entire Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine suffered a major power outage, according to security experts and the Ukrainian Government the attackers used a destructive varian of the popular BlackEnergy […]
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
December 30, 2015
The Ukrainian Government is blaming Russians state-sponsored hackers for a number of electricity cut-offs 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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
By Exploiting a flaw in the SS7 protocol hackers can access every conversation and text message mobile users send from everywhere in the world. Hackers can spy on every mobile phone user wherever it is. Channel Nine’s 60 Minutes has revealed the existence of a security hole in modern telecommunication systems that could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 29, 2014
Recent revelations have made it clear that SS7 breaches can occur, thanks to the vulnerabilities of such a set of protocols for telecom. Hackers can take advantage of these threats, like they have done in the past, as German researchers warn. The example of Ukraine and Russia highlights the danger crawling towards countries wishing to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 18, 2014
Group-IB published the annual HIGH-TECH CRIME TRENDS 2014 Report, a document focused on high-tech crimes associated with traditional computer crime. Group-IB, a leading company in cybercrime prevention and investigations, has issued its annual report titled “GROUP-IB REPORT: HIGH-TECH CRIME TRENDS 2014″ which cover the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014. The report is one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2014
iSIGHT Partners firm uncovered a Russian hacking team dubbed Sandworm that was running a cyber espionage campaign on NATO and other Government entities. According to a new report issued by the cyber security firm iSIGHT Partners a group of Russian hackers has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2014
Russian Hackers are spreading the Kelihos Trojan leading victims into believing that it is a software to hit Western Governments. Kelihos botnet is still active and exploited by the cybercrime ecosystem to monetize its effort as discovered by security experts at Bitdefender. Cyber criminals have a single purpose, to earn money by any means, for this reason it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2014
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. […]
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