Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
DHS ICS-CERT MONITOR report reveals that most critical infrastructure attacks involve APTs, but organizations lack monitoring capabilities. The DHSâs Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued its new ICS-CERT MONITOR report related to the period September 2014 â February 2015. The ICS-CERT MONITOR report According to the report, the Industrial Control Systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2015
By investigating on the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Pawn Storm, experts at TrendLabs discovered a spyware designed for iOS devices. Security experts at TrendLabs have discovered a new espionage iOS app while they were investigating on the cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Pawn Storm. In October 2014, security experts at Trend Micro uncovered a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
UNICRI published a study on the impact of the cybercrime on the economy in the Europen region with a specific focus on the effect suffered by enterprises. The UNICRI has recently published a study titled “Cybercrime and the risks for the economy and enterprises at the European Union and Italian level” that analyzed the impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2015
Gary Miliefsky explain how Spear Phishing works as well as Email Tracking that allow the sender to collect very useful data on the recipient. Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking In my 2015:Year of the RAT Threat Report (see: http://www.snoopwall.com/reports/), Â I described how I felt Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) was attacked by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2015
Scammers are earning advertising revenue by spreading click-fraud malware Tubrosa, which sends compromised computers to their YouTube videos. A new Click-fraud malware campaign aimed at earning money by using the victim’s machine to view YouTube videos and benefits from ads embedded in them. The malicious campaign, discovered by experts at Symantec, has targeted users around the world […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2015
Researcher Kyle Wilhoit discovered a spike in traditional financial crimeware targeting ICS/SCADA networks attributing it to attack run by cyber criminals. The senior threat researcher with Trend Micro, Kyle Wilhoit, has recently discovered 13 different types of crimeware disguised as new versions for human machine interface (HMI) software for Siemens Simatic WinCC, GE Cimplicity, and Advantech device drivers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2015
The director of the FBI has provided further details of the cyber attack on Sony Pictures, which claim that North Korea was responsible. The unique certainty on the cyber attack on the Sony Pictures is the name of the hacking team that has managed the offensive, the Guardians of Peace (GOP). The FBI linked the GoP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
The annual IT security report issued by the German BSI reported that a sophisticated cyber attack on a steel factory caused severe damage. A cyber attack could cause serious damage to a production plant or a facility, we discussed several times this attack scenario that represents a nightmare for security experts and Intelligence agencies. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
A Syrian citizen media group critical of ISIS was recently targeted in a spear phishing campaign which aim to de-anonymize its members. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is accused to have run cyber attacks against the Syrian citizen media group known as Raqqah is being Slaughtered Silently (RSS), the news was reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 02, 2014
FIN4 hacking team has targeted over 100 organizations since 2013, all of which are either publicly traded companies or advisory firms. Researchers at FireEye issued a report on a hacking crew dubbed FIN4 which is specialized in hacking of publicly traded companies with the intent to steal sensitive data, including mergers and acquisitions intelligence. ” FIN4 has pursued targets at more than […]
