espionage campaign

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2017
Two observations about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign

Let’s try to analyze some facts about the Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign. Prof. Corrado Aaron Visaggio helped us in this difficult task. The Italian EyePyramid espionage campaign raised to me two simple questions: (i) Are the criminals geniuses or dummies? (ii) How can an old, known, easy-to-detect malware infect so many machines belonging to different […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2016
Hackers behind the BLACKGEAR espionage campaign now targets Japan

The threat actor behind the Blackgear cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting Japanese entities is the same that hit Taiwan in 2012. According to security experts from Trend Micro, Japanese organizations were targeted in an espionage campaign dubbed Blackgear. Attackers behind the Blackgear appear to be the same that targeted users in Taiwan in 2012, they used […]