Cyber warfare

Pierluigi Paganini April 29, 2016
Air Force Intranet Control, the first Cyberspace Weapon System is operative

The Air Force earlier this month announced the launch of its first cyberspace weapon system, the Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC). The Air Force continues to invest to increase its cyber capabilities and earlier this month announced the launch of its first cyberspace weapon system, code-named Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC). The Air Force Intranet […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2016
PLATINUM APT targeted organizations in South and Southeast Asia

Microsoft issued a detailed report on the activity of the hacking crew dubbed Platinum APT group that leveraged a Windows patching system in its attacks. The hacker crew discovered by Microsoft and dubbed Platinum APT group conducted cyber espionage against organizations in South and Southeast Asia leveraging a Windows patching system. According to Microsoft, the Platinum has […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2016
The US Cyber Command started the attacks on the Islamic State

The US Government has announced to have launched a series of cyber attacks against the Islamic State coordinated by the Cyber Command. The US Government has launched its cyber offensive against the coordinated by the Cyber Command. The strategy is clear, the use of hacking operations and cyber weapons will aim to destroy computer systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
Asian Nation-State hackers use fileless RAT for their hacking campaign

State-sponsored actors in Asia have been leveraging fileless RAT for their hacking campaigns in order to avoid the detection. Security experts from SentinelOne spotted nation-state actors in Asia running espionage campaigns relying on fileless Remote Access Trojan. The state-sponsored hackers were injecting the RAT payload directly into the memory of the target host in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 21, 2016
The Australian government presents its Cyber Security Strategy

The Australian government has presented his Cyber Security Strategy and admitted the ability to conduct offensive cyber operations. The Australian Government announced its cyber security strategy that includes AU$230 million spending over four years to improve the resilience to cyber attacks of the national critical infrastructure. The strategy is very complete, it includes defensive aspects […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2016
“Restricted” NATO manual accidentally leaked to boat operators

Incredible, secret plans for NATO exercise Joint Warrior 161 were accidentally sent to Scottish fishermen and ferry operators emails. During the First World War, allied forces were able to read a lot of German radio traffic because of codebooks falling into allied hands.  Eerily reminiscent of those days, NATO forces recently ran into a similar scenario, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2016
The Four Element Sword, weaponized document builder used in APT Attacks

Experts analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious RTF documents created using the same Four Element Sword builder. Security experts at Arbor Networks’ Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) have spotted a tool used in advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks against organizations in East Asia. The researchers have analyzed a dozen attacks that leveraged on malicious Rich […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2016
Is there electronic warfare behind the block of Swedish air traffic control systems?

Swedish experts warned of an electronic warfare attack on its air traffic control systems occurred in November. Is it electronic warfare? Swedish experts suspect that the attack on its air traffic control systems last November was operated by Russian nation-state hackers, the Arlanda, Landvetter and Bromma airport reported the major problems. The Swedish experts believe the cyber attacks were […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2016
APT6 compromised the US government networks for years

The federal bureau of investigation issued an alert related the APT6 state-sponsored hacking group that has compromised the US Government networks for years. The FBI revealed that “a group of malicious cyber actors have compromised and stolen sensitive information from various government and commercial networks” since at least 2011. The alert was published online by AlenVault […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2016
US and UK Will Simulate a Cyber Attacks on nuclear plants in 2016

US and UK are planning to simulate a cyber attacks on nuclear plants, to test their resilience in the light of the nuclear security summit. In the light of the recent events with the terrorist attacks in Europe, the fear of other similar threats becomes greater by the minute. Coordinates cyber attacks on nuclear plants would […]