CrowdStrike

Pierluigi Paganini December 25, 2020
CrowdStrike releases free Azure tool to review assigned privileges

CrowdStrike released a free Azure security tool after it was notified by Microsoft of a failed attack leveraging compromised Azure credentials. While investigating the impact of the recent SolarWind hack, on December 15th Microsoft reported to CrowdStrike that threat actors attempted to read CrowdStrike’s emails by using a compromised Microsoft Azure reseller’s account. “Specifically, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2017
CrowdStrike presented the fastest and largest cybersecurity search engine

CrowdStrike Inc., the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced the fastest and largest cybersecurity search engine. Security firm CrowdStrike, the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, announced a significant improvement of its Falcon platform that has been integrated with a powerful cybersecurity search engine. According to the company the cybersecurity search engine has high performance, it claims it […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2015
VENOM flaw, millions of virtual machines are vulnerable to attack

Security Researcher at CrowdStrike claims VENOM vulnerability leaves millions of virtual machines vulnerable to cyber attacks. A new security vulnerability dubbed VENOM (CVE-2015-3456) is threatening the security industry. The CrowdStrike Senior Security Researcher Jason Geffner who discovered the vulnerability explained that the flaw could be exploited by an attacker to compromise any machine is a data […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2014
Chinese hackers violated systems at the Office of Personnel Management

The New York Times revealed that in March Chinese hackers hacked systems at Office of Personnel Management stealing files of thousands of  Federal employees According to the New York Times, senior American officials revealed that a group of Chinese hackers violated the computer networks of the United States government agency in March. The Chinese bad actors hacked US government systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2014
Deep Panda hacking team targeting US experts on Iraq

Researchers at CrowdStrike reveal that hacking team dubbed Deep Panda is targeting US think thank firms with a significant knowledge on the Iraqi situation. CrowdStrike security firm revealed that a group of hackers, suspected to be linked to the Chinese cyber army, began targeting PCs belonging to think thank firms which are analyzing the Iraqi situation. Experts at […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 11, 2014
Putter Panda APT behind for cyber espionage campaigns, are they members of PLA Unit 61486?

CrowdStrike published a new report which blames the Chinese Putter Panda group for the different cyber espionage campaigns conducted against foreign companies. Putter Panda is the name of bad actor responsible for a series of cyber espionage operations originating in Shanghai, security experts linked its operation to the activity of the People’s Liberation Army 3rd General Staff […]