Experts from Proofpoint discovered a new phishing campaign designed to steal banking data leveraging tactics associated with malware distribution. Security experts from Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that presents many similarities with campaigns used to spread the Cerber ransomware and the Ursnif banking Trojan. Cyber criminals adopted a technique that leverages on the distribution […]
The notorious white hat hacker Kapustkiy hacked the Russian Visa Center in the USA and accessed information of around 3000 individuals. The Russian Visa Center is an organization that helps Americans to obtain Russian Visa, this morning the white hat hacker Kapustkiy informed me that he broke into the database its website and accessed data of around […]
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 DNSChanger Exploit kit targets Home routers in malvertising campaign Security expert disclosed a full zero-day drive-by exploit […]
The Russian and Turkish authorities asked Apple to unlock iPhone belonging to the assassin of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov. The Russiaâs ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was killed on Monday during an exhibition in Ankara. The killer is a lone Turkish gunman that shouted âGod is great!â and âdonât forget Aleppo, donât forget Syria!â The shooter was killed […]
The hacker @Cryptolulz666 and his colleague @EvoIsGod have broken into the website of the Hong Kong English newspaper “The Standard Hong Kong” (www.thestandard.com.hk) The hackers breached the database of the website and uploaded data to Pastebin. I reached the hackers who confirmed to have hacked the website by exploiting a SQL Injection flaw in their CMS. The hackers posted only […]
Christmas time is a critical period for the gaming industry that is threatened by hackers that want to paralyze their services with massive attacks. Yesterday I reported the DDoS attacks launched by Phantom Squad and PoodleCorp against Steam and Origin Servers, and unfortunately they are not alone. Hackers threaten to take down Xbox Live and PSN […]
A Facebook hack could have been exploited to retrieve the private email address of any user with a serious impact on the privacy. A smart Facebook hack allowed to retrieve the private email address of any user. The issue was discovered by the hacker Tommy DeVoss who awarded with $5,000 under the Facebook Bug bounty program. […]
The servers of the Steam gaming platform and Origin are down. Phantom Squad and PoodleCorp are claiming responsibility for the attacks. It’s holiday time and hackers can transform this period in a nightmare for gamers. Two years ago Lizard Squad hackers took down the networks of Sony PSN and Microsoft XBox Live. Now the notorious Phantom Squad […]
The number of cyber attacks against organizations in the healthcare industry is increasing, this trend is expected to continue in 2017. The monitoring of the activity in the cyber criminal underground is essential for investigators and security experts. The value of illegal products and services gives us a precious information on cyber criminal trends. Security experts […]
The latest update of Signal introduces the ‘domain fronting’ technique that has been implemented to circumvent censorship. Signal is considered the most secure instant messaging app, searching for it on the Internet it is possible to read the Edward Snowdenâ testimony: âUse anything by Open Whisper Systemsâ Snowden says. The Cryptographer and Professor at Johns Hopkins […]