Elderwood

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2014
Elderwood Platform is still providing Zero-Day exploits

Experts at Symantec have discovered that behind the Elderwood Platform there is a still active group which is providing Zero-Day exploit used recently. Do you remember the Elderwood  project? It was September 2012 when Symantec security firm published an analysis that demonstrate the link between a series of cyber attacks against more than 30 companies and the cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2013
Confidential documents from Japanese politics stolen by malware

Last December Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hit again by malware  that stolen secret information on newest rockets from an internal computer, it was not first time for the Japanese agency that was already victim of a cyber attack having same purpose, cyber espionage to obtain information on another technological advanced project related to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 03, 2012
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency hit again by malware

The New Your Times has recently published the news the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency was hit by a virus that stolen secret information on newest rockets from an internal computer. The precious information was stored from a computer in Tsukuba Space Center located in northeast area of Tokyo, where it has been detected a malware that […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 22, 2012
New “experimental” rootkit menaces Linux OS

Yesterday I wrote about a new variant of malware able to use Google Docs function to hide communications to C&C servers, but daily we read about malicious agents that compromise  every OS, also the ones considered most secure from security community. Recently security experts have detected a rootkit designed to infect Linux machines implementing an infection schema […]