Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2017
ClearSky Security discovered a new campaign conducted by the Iranian OilRig APT leveraging digitally signed malware and fake University of Oxford domains. The OilRig hacker group is an Iran-linked APT that has been around since at least 2015. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have been monitoring the group for some time and have reported attacks launched against government agencies, financial institutions and technology companies in Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait and Qatar, the United States, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2017
FTC charges the Taiwanese IT giant D-Link putting consumers’ privacy at risk due to the failure of Implementing secure adequate measures for IoT devices. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a lawsuit against the Taiwanese firm D-Link, over failure to secure its IoT products, including IP cameras and routers. The company has produced promotional […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2017
The China-linked DragonOK continues updating tools and tactics and targeted entities in various countries, including Russia and Tibet. It was September 2014, when security researchers at FireEye spotted for the first time the cyber espionage activities of a Chinese state-sponsored group dubbed DragonOK. At the time, FireEye discovered two hacking campaigns conducted by distinct groups operating in separate regions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2017
Putin ordered cyber attacks and propaganda to influence Election. Reading the âAssessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Electionsâ Report. The US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released an unclassified version of intel community’s findings on activities conducted by the Russian Government in the attempt to influence the 2016 US Presidential […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
My friends at CyberBlog decided to analyze the GM Bot Android Malware as exercise aiming to receive feedback sand suggestions from the security community. The sample explored is confirmed as a variant of the GM Bot Android malware â whoâs source was released publicly in early 2016. The code appears to have been forked by a second […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
CyberZeist claims that he hacked the FBIâs website exploiting a zero-day flaw in Plone, but the Plone security team declared the FBI hack is a hoax. Security Affairs was probably the first blog to spread the news of the alleged FBI hack. I was contacted by the notorious hacker CyberZeist, he is very popular in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2017
Forcepoint has detected two new versions of an advanced persistent threat (APT) malware dubbed MM Core APT and first discovered in 2013. The APT MM Core malware has been in the wild since April 2013 when it was spotted for the first time by experts at FireEye. The malware researchers dubbed the first release of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2017
The Koolova ransomware will decrypt the encrypted files for free it the victim read two blog posts about how to avoid ransomware infection. Ransomware authors are very creative, in the last here we assisted a rapid evolution of the cyber extortion practice. Ransomware has become one of the fastest growing threats, new malware implements sophisticated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2017
Many users speculated about a possible compromise of the address of www.google.com.br. Did someone hack it? Let’s see what has happened. Two days ago, we followed many news and comments regarding the compromise of the address www.google.com.br. At the beginning, many (me included) discredited the news, however, big online portals quickly started to propagate the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 05, 2017
The popular security expert Chris Vickery discovered a 11GB archive of Top Secret US SOCOM data that was accidentally leaked. A subcontractor of the Pentagon has exposed top-secret information of the US Military Special Operations Command (SOCOM) medics. Exposed records include names, locations, Social Security Numbers, and salaries of the Military SOCOM personnel, the database […]
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