Pierluigi Paganini
August 29, 2016
The head of Iranâs civilian defense confirmed that a malware was found in petrochemical complexes, but it hasn’t caused the fires under investigation. Last week, I reported the news related to a series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants. The Iranâs Supreme National Cyberspace Council started an investigation to discover if the incidents at oil and petrochemical […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
New World Hackers is one of the most popular groups of hackers, it conducted several hacking campaigns against multiple targets. Enjoy the interview! Did you conduct several hacking campaigns? Could you tell me more about you and your team? We have been dedicated to operations, such as taking down BBC, Donald Trump, NASA, and XBOX. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
Amidst of Apple vs. FBI debacle and successful attempt of a breach at NSA headquarters by a hacker group, a new torch has flamed internationally by France and Germany calling for a European Decryption Law. Months after the FBI-Apple encryption case standoff in the U.S. and NSA headquarters breach by hackers has started a global […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Bitcoins move from the seized SilkRoad wallet to the ShadowBrokers Security Affairs newsletter Round 74 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
KimDotcom’ Megaupload, the popular website seized by feds 5 years ago and currently managed by the FBI is serving adult content. Sometimes really bizarre things happen and it is difficult to explain them. Is it possible that the FBI hosts a porn website? The first thing that I have is that the FBI might run […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2016
The cost of cybercrime could reach $6 trillion by 2021 (global annual cybercrime costs has been estimated $3 trillion in 2015). The global cost of cybercrime continues to increase, this isn’t a surprise due to the intensification of this kind of illegal practice. According to an analysis conducted by Cybersecurity Ventures, the cost of cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2016
The Norwegian company warned the users that the Opera Sync service of a possible security breach that might have exposed their data. On Friday, Opera, published a security alert to warn its users that the Opera Sync service might have been breached. In response to the alleged incident, Opera forced a password reset for all Sync […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2016
The Security Engineer April King from Mozilla has released the Observatory Tool, a free tool for the security assessment of websites. Mozilla has launched the ‘Observatory,’ a tool developed by the Security Engineer April King that allows administrators and developer to test their websites. “Observatory is a simple tool that allows site operators to quickly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2016
A new Locky Ransomware variant has been spotted by researchers at Cyren, it uses DLLs for distribution. The Locky Ransomware is one of the most popular threats since its first detection in the wild early 2016. The ransomware has evolved over the time, crooks have improved it adding new evasion detection features and changing the distribution methods. Security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2016
Apple issued emergency iOS updates to patch three Zero-Days exploited by a government spyware in an high-sophisticated attack. Apple has released the iOS 9.3.5 update for its mobile devices (iPhones and iPads). The security updates address three zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by nation-state actors to spy on activists. Security experts have spotted a strain of spyware targeting […]
