state sponsored hackers

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2014
GCHQ ran DoS attack on chatrooms used by Anonymous and LulzSec

New slides leaked by Snowden, and published by NBC NEWS, reveal that GCHQ ran DoS attack on chatrooms used by Anonymous and LulzSec. The last revelation on the investigation conducted by NBC News on Snowden case reveals that British intelligence GCHQ ran denial-of-service attacks against Anonymous and LulzSec. Documents leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reports the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2014
US Intelligence warns on Counterintelligence and cyber espionage

Intelligence officials now view the threat from counterintelligence, foreign spying and the leaking, as the No. 2 danger facing the country. Top U.S. Intelligence officials released a new Worldwide Threat Assessment Report during a Senate hearing last week, they highlighted the top risks to national security. Let’s give a look to the list, cybersecurity  is still perceived […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2014
VSAT terminals are opened for targeted cyber attacks

Security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company, discovered that VSAT terminals are opened for targeted cyber attacks. VSAT terminals (very-small-aperture terminal) used for satellite communications are vulnerable to external cyber attacks, the discovery was made by security researchers at IntelCrawler, a Los-Angeles based cyber intelligence company. The VSAT vulnerability appears serious and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2014
I will hack your systems with an SD Card

The hardware hacker Bunnie Huang presented at the Chaos Compute Club Congress how to exploit SD cards microcontrolled for malicious purposes. How is it possible to exploit SD Card, USB stick and other mobile devices for hacking? Another interesting hack was presented at the Chaos Computer Congress (30C3), in Hamburg, Germany, while yesterday I’ve published a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2013
Energy industry warned over threat of cyberattacks, alarm raised by UAE

The energy industry continues to be a privileged target for cyber attacks of hacktivists, state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals. The alarm from UAE Oil and gas companies are considerable privileged targets of cyber attacks, cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists daily menace security of infrastructure in the energy industry. The number of attacks worldwide against Oil and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2013
Jeremy Hammond on state-sponsored hacktivism

Jeremy Hammond was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, during the process he declared that FBI directed my attacks of Anonymous on foreign governments. Jeremy Hammond, the popular Anonymous hacktivist considered the principal responsible for the disclosure of thousands of emails from the private intelligence firm Stratfor was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 16, 2013
FBI warns of US government networks violated by Anonymous

The FBI is warning that members of the Anonymous hacking collective have violated networks belonging to multiple government agencies stealing sensitive data The Reuters agency reported that members of the hacktivist group of Anonymous  secretly violated U.S. Government networks in multiple agencies and stolen sensitive information. The FBI warned that the hacking campaign began almost […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2013
Stuxnet infected the network of Russian nuclear facility

Eugene Kaspersky revealed that a staffer at the unnamed nuclear Russian plant informed him of the infection of internal network with Stuxnet. We have a lot of information on Stuxnet virus, a powerful malware that for the first time has shown to governments the capabilities and efficiency of a cyber weapon.  After its disclosure it’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2013
Anonymous OpNSA Campaign – OSINT to predict DDoS attacks on Nov 5th

  OpNSA analyzed with OSINT techniques based on the correlation of media activities and physical protests. The analysts provided a forecast on next attacks. Web Intelligence analysis alerts on early signs of an Anonymous cyber campaign dubbed OpNSA that as usual will address with DDoS attack principal US Government websites. Security experts don’t exclude the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2013
Syrian Electronic Army hit NYT and Twitter

The group of Syrian Electronic Army hackers is intensification its hacking campaign pro-Assad. Details of the attacks against the HuffingtonPost UK, Twitter and the NYT. The Syrian Electronic Army once again successful in an attack, to be precise the popular group of hacker this time hacked into Twitter, Huffington Post and NY Times’ registry accounts modifying DNS records and […]