Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2016
Lithuania said found Russian spyware on its government computers, the government blames Moscow for cyber espionage campaigns. Lithuania blames Russia for cyber attacks that have hit government networks over the last two years. According to the Reuters, the head of cyber security Rimtautas Cerniauskas confirmed the discovery of at least three Russian spyware on government […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago, now identified as TeleBots, are targeting Ukrainian banks. The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago causing a power outage in the country are now targeting Ukrainian banks. The Ukrainian government accused Russia of being involved in the attack, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2016
Georgia’s secretary of state, Brian Kemp, revealed that voter registration database was targeted by hackers with IP address linked to the DHS. While President Barack Obama has ordered US intelligence agencies to deeper investigate the alleged Russian interference with the 2016 Presidential Election, Georgia announced it’s traced an attempted breach of the state’s voter registration database to the DHS. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2016
According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet? Is it possible? Our society heavily depends on technology and the Internet is the privileged vector of the information today. Blocking the Internet could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 08, 2016
President Obama at the recent G-20 Summit held in China declared that the US has âmore capacity than anybody, both offensively and defensively.â Governments recognize the cyberspace as the fifth domain of warfare, in June the NATO alliance communicated during the Warsaw summit that it has officially declared cyberspace a warfare domain and confirmed that a cyber attack […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2016
Azerbaijani Anti-Armenia Team of hacktivists leaked Armenian security service data and passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia. A group of Azerbaijani hacktivists has leaked the passport details of foreign visitors to Armenia. The data breach exposed the Internal resources of the Security Service (SNS) that are involved in the process of updating information about passports […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
The cost of cybercrime could reach $6 trillion by 2021 (global annual cybercrime costs has been estimated $3 trillion in 2015). The global cost of cybercrime continues to increase, this isn’t a surprise due to the intensification of this kind of illegal practice. According to an analysis conducted by Cybersecurity Ventures, the cost of cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2016
Information warfare – The development of cyber capabilities is strategic for any governments, computer systems and Internet of Things even more at risk. By the mid-1990âs the US intelligence agencies, especially the NSA, were beginning to wake up to a grim reality â the world was quickly becoming connected and the tools to connect that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2016
In military jargon, the term Red Team is traditionally used to identify highly skilled and organized groups acting as fictitious rivals and/or enemies to the âregularâ forces, the Blue Team. Whenever we discuss Information Security from a defensive point of view, we are inclined to think about protection, damage control, and reaction. However, adopting an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2016
The Labs team at SentinelOne recently discovered a sophisticated malware dubbed Furtim specifically targeting at least one European energy company. In May of this year, security researcher Yotam Gottesam with enSilo, began unraveling a mystery that continues to unravel. First reported by FireF0X, a self-proclaimed âex-malware analystâ located in the Russian Federation, the Furtim malware […]
