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Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Speaking with Lorenzo Martínez

Today I have the pleasure to share with you the interview with one of the most popular Spanish cyber security experts, Lorenzo Martinez. Enjoy it! Lorenzo Martinez is the CTO of Securizame, a Spanish security company fully oriented to consultancy, ethical hacking, forensics and security trainings. He is also one of the four editors and […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
BASHLITE Botnets peaked 1 Million Internet of Thing Devices

A joint research conducted by Level 3 Communications and Flashpoint allowed the identification of a million devices infected by the BASHLITE malware. Do you remember the BASHLITE malware? It was a strain of malware (also known as Lizkebab, Torlus and Gafgyt) detected by experts at Trend Micro shortly after the public disclosure of the ShellShock bug. The BASHLITE malware includes the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2016
Spotify resets users’ passwords due to data breaches suffered by other firms

In response to the numerous data breaches suffered by other services, the music streaming service Spotify forced a password reset for a number of users. In the last months, numerous IT companies suffered a major data breach, including Dropbox, LinkedIn, MySpace, VK.com, and Tumblr. The criminal underground is flooded by login credentials from the above services that offered for sales by hackers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
USBee exfiltrates data from air-Gapped networks via electromagnetic emission from USB

A group of Israeli researchers has devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. Mordechai Guri, head of  R&D at Ben-Gurion’s Cyber Security Center and the chief scientist officer at Morphisec Endpoint Security, and his team have devised a new technique dubbed USBee to hack air-gapped networks and exfiltrate information. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
Hacker Interviews – NorthScripts from P0werfulGreakArmy

NorthScripts is one of the members of the PøwerfulGreəkArmy hacker group, a young team that conducted several hacking campaigns against multiple targets. Enjoy the interview! Could you tell me more about you? Could you tell me which his your technical background and when you started hacking?  I started hacking in 2013, but got better in 2015 when I […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
Dropbox Data Breach, more than 68 Million account details leaked online

A DropBox data breach occurred in 2012 is forcing the company to reset login passwords for users included in a data dump leaked online. Another clamorous data breach is in the headlines, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Earlier this week, Dropbox […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2016
iOS 9.3.4 and minor versions are vulnerable to the Trident Exploit

Its name is the Trident: a chain of zero-day exploits that aim to infect iPhone with commercial spyware. Researchers linked it to the NSO group. Its name is the Trident: a chain of zero-day exploits that aim to infect iPhone with commercial spyware. Researchers say it’s belonging to an exploit infrastructure connected to the NSO […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2016
Saudi government facilities hit by cyber attacks, Saudi cyber experts convened

Saudi government facilities have been hit cyber attacks, the Government is investigating with the support of Saudi cyber experts. Saudi government facilities have been targeted by major cyber attacks, in response, the Government has convened a group of cyber experts to examine the events. According to the Saudi Press Agency, Saudi cyber experts held urgent talks […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2016
Lurk cybercrime Gang developed, maintained and rent the Angler EK

Experts from Kaspersky Lab confirmed that the Lurk cybercrime Gang developed, maintained and rent the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have confirmed that the Lurk cybercrime group are the author of the infamous Angler exploit kit. The members of the Lurk cybercrime crew were arrested by Russian law enforcement this summer, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 30, 2016
Minecraft World Map data breach, 71,000 accounts leaked online

The popular security expert Troy Hunt reported some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from the website Minecraft World Map. Another data breach affects the gaming industry, this time, 71,000 Minecraft World Map accounts has been leaked online after the ‘hack.’ Some 71,000 user accounts and IP addresses have been leaked from Minecraft […]