cyber espionage

Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2018
Turla APT group’s espionage campaigns now employs Adobe Flash Installer and ingenious social engineering

Turla APT group’s espionage campaigns now employs Adobe Flash Installer and an ingenious social engineering technique, the backdoor is downloaded from what appears to be legitimate Adobe URLs and IP addresses. Security researchers from ESET who have analyzed recent cyber espionage campaigns conducted by the dreaded Turla APT group reported that hackers leverage on malware downloaded from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2017
Russian Fancy Bear APT Group improves its weapons in ongoing campaigns

Fancy Bear APT group refactored its backdoor and improved encryption to make it stealthier and harder to stop. The operations conducted by Russian Fancy Bear APT group (aka Sednit, APT28, and Sofacy,  Pawn Storm, and Strontium) are even more sophisticated and hard to detect due to. According to a new report published by experts from security firm ESET, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2017
Exclusive, CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: The Bladabindi malware

The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab analyzed a couple of new malware samples, belonging to the Bladabindi family, that were discovered on a looking-good website. ZLab team detected two new threats hosted on a looking-good website www[.]6th-sense[.]eu. Both malware looks like a legitimate app that users have to install in order to access the media file hosted on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 19, 2017
Kaspersky Lab files Lawsuit over DHS Ban of its products and services

Kaspersky Lab sues the U.S. Government over product ban, it’s appeal was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Last week, the US President Donald Trump signed a bill that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab products and services in federal agencies. Section 1634 of the bill prohibits the use of security […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 18, 2017
BGP hijacking – Traffic for Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants routed through Russia

Traffic for Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and other tech giants routed through Russia, experts believe it was an intentional BGP Hijacking. Last week a suspicious event routed traffic for major tech companies (i.e. Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider. The event occurred on Wednesday, researchers who investigated it believe the traffic […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2017
The cybersecurity firm Fox-IT disclosed a security breach that affected its infrastructure

For Fox-IT disclosed a security breach that affected its infrastructure and demonstrated how to manage it in an outstanding way. The cybersecurity firm Fox-IT, one of the top security companies currently owned by the UK giant NCC Group, disclosed a security breach that affected its infrastructure. According to the firm, on September 19 an unknown attacker carried […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 14, 2017
Trump signed a bill prohibiting the use of Kaspersky Lab product and services

The US President Donald Trump signed a bill that bans the use of Kaspersky Lab products and services in federal agencies. Section 1634 of the bill prohibits the use of security software and services provided by security giant Kaspersky Lab, the ban will start from October 1, 2018. Below the details of the ban included in the section […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 11, 2017
10 Biggest Cyber Espionage Cases

Cyber espionage is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. These are 10 Biggest Cyber Espionage Cases. Cyber spying is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. Cyber terrorists can attack you from any place in the world at any time if you […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2017
The Indian Intelligence warns China is spying through 42 mobile apps

The Indian Intelligence warns China is spying its troops through 42 mobile apps, for this reason, the Intelligence Bureau asked soldiers to delete them. The Indian Intelligence Bureau (IB) has warned that Chinese cyber spies are collecting confidential information about the Indian security installations through its popular mobile phone apps and devices. The Intelligence Bureau issued an advisory to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2017
Exclusive, CSE CybSec ZLAB Malware Analysis Report: The Italian Job – Android malware masqueraded as Fake Tre Updater

The CSE CybSec Z-Lab Malware Lab analyzed a new strain of malware apparently developed to target the customers of the Italian telco operator “Tre”. The malware researchers from ZLab analyzed a new strain of Android malware that appears as a fake 3MobileUpdater. The malware looks like a legitimate app used to retrieve the mobile system update, but it […]