Today’s post is a doctrinal and metaphysical one… really, it’s a pain. You’ve been warned 🙂 While talking about Computer Network Operations (CNO) we consider three capabilities or actions: CND, CNA and CNE (Defence, Attack and Exploitation respectively); while CND is obviously about technological defence of IT infrastructures against also technological attacks -not about a […]
The geopolitical and potential cyber influence of Russia in Africa
In this report there is an analysis about the current geopolitical relationship between Russia and Africa. Furthermore, it shows several malicious campaigns presumably attributed to Russia with diplomatic, energetic and defense targets. Geopolitical Russian influence over Africa: Africa has been an historical geostrategic target for most relevant countries with a significant power in the order […]
(Cyber) III Cold War: Hack the vote?
As you now, the DHS (Department of Homeland Security) along with the ODNI (Office of the Director of National Intelligence) formally accused Russia of meddling in the past US presidential elections with techniques from the burning information warfare and various cyberattacks. Let’s take a (somewhat delayed) look at this. It is not the first time that USA […]
Ongoing Njrat campaign against Middle East
During the last months, Lab52 has been monitoring an infection campaign that is using different kinds of threats. One of these threats is Vengeance Justice Worm, also known as Vjw0rm, which is developed in Javascript. This is a type of malware capable of acting as a RAT or spreading through removable devices, thus doing worm […]
Geopolitical strategy of Iran and the cyberattacks of APT33
Executive summary The following report shows an analysis of several hybrid strategies that presumably Iran usually carries out against its national and international enemies. Currently, it is important to analyze how the Iranian Defense structures are composed to develop and execute from the State the cyberattacks and hybrid operations. Moreover, in the report there is […]
G20 event in Osaka targeted by threat actors:
The 28th and 29th of June is going to celebrate the G20 event in Osaka, Japan. In this event, the most relevant powerful decision makers will discuss the significant topics and strategies that will influence global order. The Nation-States with cyber offensive capabilities would be highly interested in cyberattacking the IT systems of politicians, organizations […]