Cyber Caliphate

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2017
Pro-ISIS Amaq News Site Hacked and exploited to distribute Malware

The Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency has been hacked and used to spread a malicious a FlashPlayer file. Who is behind the attack? The Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency has been hacked and used to spread a malware. The website is considered as the official news site of the Islamic State, it was used for propaganda and […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2016
The France TV5Monde was almost destroyed by the Russian APT28 group

The TV5Monde director-general has told the BBC that his TV was almost destroyed by a targeted cyber attack conducted by the Russian APT28 group. On April 2015, the TV5Monde was hit by a severe cyber attack that compromised broadcasting of transmissions across its medium. The attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media accounts of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2016
Analyzing Cyber Capabilities of the ISIS

The data intelligence firm Flashpoint has published an interesting report that explore the cyber capabilities of the ISIS radical group. In the last days of April, Flashpoint a global leader in Deep and Dark Web data and intelligence published a report that is dedicated to the analysis of cyber capabilities of the ISIS with the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2015
Cyber Caliphate Hacks 54k Twitter accounts, including ones of CIA and FBI officials

The ISIS group known as the Cyber Caliphate hacked 54,000 Twitter accounts and leaked online data of heads of the CIA and FBI. We have discussed several times about the cyber capabilities of the ISIS sympathizers, recently Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer for F-Secure, said he worries about cyber extremists that could penetrate critical infrastructure and cause […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2015
Did the attackers hack TV5Monde with the Kjw0rm Remote Access Trojan?

A new hypothesis on the attack that compromised the French TV station TV5Monde: Hackers of the Cyber Caliphate team used the Kjw0rm Remote Access Trojan. The cyber attacks against the French TV5Monde Channel that resulted in the network take over and the hijacking of social media account of the broadcaster is focusing the attention of the media. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2015
Tv5Monde revealed his own passwords in an interview

A TV5Monde staffer accidentally revealed a password used to access the social media account of the broadcaster in an interview. Following the successful attack against the network of the TV French Channel TV5Monde, law enforcement and French Intelligence started to investigate the attach chain. Investigators speculate that one of the possible way hackers obtained credentials for systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2015
ISIS hackers belonging Cyber Caliphate team overtake French TV5Monde

Members of the ISIS Cyber Caliphate hacking crew attacked French TV network TV5Monde on Wednesday evening disrupting the broadcast of its TV channels. The French TV Channel TV5Monde was targeted by a serious cyber attack on Wednesday that compromised broadcasting of transmissions across its medium.the attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media […]