Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
Arthur Budovsky, the co-founder of the online underworld bank Liberty Reserve, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for committing money laundering. Arthur Budovsky, the co-founder of the online underworld bank , was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The man had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. He was condemned […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads The British GCHQ has disclosed dozens vulnerabilities this year Garage4hackers Webcast – Bypass Modern WAFs Exemplified at XSS Security Affairs newsletter Round 58 – News of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
Researchers at TrendMicro have analyzed online activities of terrorists identifying the techniques and tools used for their propaganda. Using vulnerabilities in software, websites, and web applications as attack vectors, hosting malicious components in cloud services. Other than this if there’s any service getting launched in the future, there will be always chances of abuse. Experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Hackers have disrupted a Locky campaign after they compromised one of the cybercriminal servers used by the threat actors. According to the security expert Sven Carlsen from Avira, hackers have dismantled a Locky campaign by hacking the command and control server. Carlsen explained that threat actors behind the Locky campaign spread the threat via spam […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
One out of every three websites were involved in transmitting malware to their users, which was found attached to their digital content. Suppose, there is a movie, released last month. You didn’t have the time to watch it in the theatre and you also want to save some money. What would you do? Go to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Three German security researchers have presented a PLC-based worm with Proof-of-Concept based on the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC. Three German security researchers have presented a PLC-based worm at Black Hat Asia. The proof of concept is based on the Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC which reminds us all two well of an earlier PLC attacking worm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
There are numerous standards being followed currently in the IOT space to connect various devices but no single global framework is followed. As Chaos theory focuses on the initial condition of every event meaning that their future behavior is fully determined by their initial conditions, I feel that the IOT scenario is also currently at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2016
Lenovo fixed the Lenovo Solution Center, once again the company faces problems with pre-installed bloatware causing major security problems for users. Lenovo has fixed a security vulnerability in the Lenovo Solution Center (LSC) support tool that could be exploited by attackers to execute code with system privileges and take over the machine. Lenovo Solution Center […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
The Swiss Defense Department was recently victim of a cyber attack, the offensive has come after a presentation on cyber espionage to the FIS. The Swiss Defense Department was recently a victim of a cyber attack, the offensive has come after a presentation on cyber espionage to the Federal Intelligence Service. The cyber attack was announced by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
This is a novelty in the cyber criminal underground, crooks behind the new born CyptMix ransomware promise to donate the fee to charity. No doubts, a very creative idea to extort money to the victims enticing them to pay for a good cause and telling them to think to have the opportunity to help the children. […]
