Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2016
The Russian APT group Fancy Bear used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016. The popular hacking group, known as Fancy Bear, APT 28, Pawn Storm, Sednit or Sofacy, is once again in the headlines. Experts from the cyber security firm CrowdStrike reported the alleged Russian nation-state actor used malware implant […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2016
Executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group revealed that Windows Kernel zero-day recently disclosed was used by the Fancy Bear APT. On Oct. 31, the Google Threat Analysis Group publicly disclosed a vulnerability in the Windows kernel that is actively being exploited by threat actors in the wild. The zero-day could be exploited […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2016
Researchers at Palo Alto spotted a new campaign of the Russian Fancy Bear APT using a new Mac OS X Trojan against companies in the aerospace industry. In the last weeks, we have discussed a lot about a string of attacks that targeted the US Democratic National Committee (DNC), security experts collected evidence of the involvement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 26, 2016
New evidence collected by investigators suggests that hackers that attacked DNC penetrated deeper than previously thought. In June, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrike’s incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers “some of the best adversaries out of the all […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2016
A hacker using the pseudonymous Guccifer 2.0, claimed responsibility for the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Yesterday, we blogged about the cyber-attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that led a dossier of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump. According to the US-based cyber security company CrowdStrike, two sophisticated Russian espionage groups, COZY […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2016
The Democratic National Committee’s network was hacked by Russian hackers belonging to nation-state groups that have had access to the group’s communications and databases. Yesterday, the security research firm CrowdStrike reported on a cyber breach of the Democratic National Committee (DNS). CrowdStrike’s incident response time discovered not one, but two hacking groups that it considers “some […]
