Threat Intelligence

A Close Look at the NSA Monitor Catalog – Server Hacking

Introduction Summing up what happened, Der Spiegel published an internal NSA catalog that contains detailed information on spies' backdoors used by the agenc

Shadow Network

Part I I. Introduction[pkadzone zone="main_top"] Similarly to the real real-life situation where a GhostNet report is followed by the one on the Shadow netwo

How Classified NSA Exploit tools RADON and DEWSWEEPER Work

The NSA FoxAcid Platform Security expert Bruce Schneier is one of the most authoritative experts who revealed that the NSA has a wide-ranging arsenal of zero

2013 - The Impact of Cybercrime

Introduction Recent studies published on the evolution of principal cyber threats in the security landscape. They present concerning scenarios, characterized

What We Learned from APTs in the Current Year

Early this year we witnessed major IT firms suffering from data breaches of one kind or another, and they have come out in the open about the breaches, as we

Estonia: To Blackout an Entire Country – Part 2

IV. Attack Targets & Impact The main targets appear to be information distribution channels owned either by the Estonian government, or the private and b

Estonia: To Black Out an Entire Country – part one

Introduction The cyber-attacks that befell Estonia in 2007 is a case much discussed and underrated at the same time. Many tend to ignore the eloquent fact th

Cybercrime as a Service

Reading about cybercrime, it is very easy to find terms such as attacks-as-a-service, malware-as-a-service and fraud-as-s-Service, that are commonly used to

The Palantir Technologies model, lights and shadows on a case of success

Introduction In this article one of the most debated intelligence company is presented: the Palantir Technologies, a firm that is recognized as one of most b

Project Artemis – OSINT activities on Deep Web

Introduction During the last months I was a member of the board for a project titled Artemis, a research project that I started with my co-author Richard Amo