Hacktivism

Pierluigi Paganini December 02, 2017
Anonymous launch Brazilian Corrupt Public Sector Entities Data Leak

In an astonishing move, Anonymous leak public sector entities infrastructure topology data for the people of Brazil in the midst of Lava Jato scandal. The compromised data includes IP addresses from the public sector, ranging law enforcement agencies and local municipality. This data leak comes at a moment where a strong fight against corruption is […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2017
Phish For The Future – spear-phishing attacks target Internet Freedom Activists

EFF published the report on “Phish For The Future,” an advanced persistent spearphishing campaign targeting Freedom Activists. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) confirmed that a sophisticated spear-phishing campaign targeted the employees of Internet freedom NGOs “Free Press” and “Fight for the Future” The EFF revealed that it is aware at least 70 attempts to steal the credentials of […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2017
OpDomesticTerrorism – Anonymous takes down Charlottesville website after the incident

Anonymous launched the OpDomesticTerrorism and claimed responsibility for carrying out a DDoS attack on the website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The hacktivist collective Anonymous launched the OpDomesticTerrorism and claimed responsibility for carrying out a DDoS attack on the official website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The website went offline under the prolonged attack that was powered in the wake […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2017
Mexican Government was spying on Journalists and Activists with Pegasus Surveillance software

Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with the powerful surveillance software Pegasus developed by the NSO Group. Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with a powerful surveillance software. According to the journalists, the authorities used an Israeli spyware to hack their mobile devices. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2017
Canada’ CSE warns of cyber attacks against next 2019 Election

The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that hackers will attempt to hack into 2019 country’s Election. The Canada Communications Security Establishment (CSE) published a report that reveals that cyber criminals and hacktivists had leaked sensitive government documents, and attempted to hack into 2015 country’s Election. The hackers targeted candidates and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2017
Experts tracked a German hacker behind the spreading of Houdini Worm on Pastebin

Security experts at Recorded Future tracked a German hacker for the propagation of the Houdini worm through Pastebin sites. A German hacker that goes online with the moniker Vicswors Baghdad is the responsible for the propagation of the Houdini malware on Pastebin sites. According to the expert at Recorded Future, the same threat actor appears to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2017
Macron campaign suffered a huge hacking attack 48 hours before French vote

The campaign of the Presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron has been targeted once again by hackers that leaked a 9GB dump of stolen data from its staff. Information warfare and politics are even more strictly correlated. It has happened again, after the DNC hack, hackers have targeted also French presidential elections. The target of the hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2017
Turkey vs Holland – Hackers broke into Twitter CounterApp to hijack hundreds of High-Profile Accounts

Turkey vs Holland – Hackers launched a massive hacking campaign that hijacked hundreds of High-Profile Accounts to spread political messages against Holland. A huge number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hijacked following the recent diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers posted through many Twitter accounts political messages in the Turkish language including a link […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 15, 2017
Operation Kingphish: Cyber Attacks against human rights activists in Qatar and Nepal

Amnesty International has recently uncovered a spear phishing campaign dubbed Operation Kingphish that targeted groups in Qatar and Nepal. Human rights organizations and journalists continue to be a privileged target of phishing campaigns that attempt to steal the Google credentials of the victims. The malicious messages try to lure victims into viewing documents online. Amnesty […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2017
ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, who is attacking us, and how?

ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape Report 2016, a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) is an EU Agency composed of security experts that work with these states, public organizations and private groups to develop advice and recommendations on good practice […]