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Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2016
Twitter suspended 235,000 accounts belonging to the ISIS in 6 months

Twitter announced it has shut down 360,000 terrorist-related accounts since last year, Daesh traffic on its platform has plummeted by 45 percent in 2 years. Social media platforms are privileged instruments for the ISIS propaganda, members of the terror organization make a large use of social media like Twitter to share images and news about […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2016
Bitcoins move from the seized SilkRoad wallet to the ShadowBrokers

A security expert noticed strange transactions from the Bitcoin wallet of the SilkRoad (now in the hands of Feds) to the ShadowBrokers ‘ wallet. I was surfing the Internet searching for interesting data about the ShadowBrokers group that leaked exploits and hacking tools belonging to the NSA Equation Group. I have found a very intriguing analysis […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 74 – News of the week

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! Hitler ransomware just deletes files instead encrypt them Security Affairs newsletter Round 73 – News […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2016
NSA BENIGNCERTAIN tool can obtain VPN Passwords from CISCO PIX

Researchers tested the BENIGNCERTAIN tool included in the NSA data dump that allows attackers to extract VPN passwords from certain Cisco devices. Following the disclosure of the NSA dump, IT vendors Cisco and Fortinet issued security patches to fix the flaws exploited by the Equation Group in their products. Now, security researchers have uncovered another […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2016
A new Brazilian banking Trojan leverages on PowerShell

According to Kaspersky experts Brazilian crooks have made an important addition to their malware leveraging on the PowerShell. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a sophisticated banking trojan targeting Brazilian users. The threat, codenamed Trojan-Proxy.PowerShell.Agent.a, leverages on the Microsoft’s PowerShell utility. It is considered one of the most complex Brazilian malware samples discovered since […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2016
Australian Police obtained access to the Love Zone Child Porn Site and Got 30 IPs from US

The Australian police had targeted the Love Zone child porn site, ran it for a while and managed to gain access at least to 30 US IPs. Apart from FBI, there are other organizations that have tried to identify the participants of child porn websites, so that they could get their hands on them and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2016
Emails among dumps published by Wikileaks includes 300+ malware

A malware researcher has analyzed the attachments of in the WikiLeaks email dumps and discovered more than 300 pieces of malware. WikiLeaks has published more than 300 pieces of malicious code among its caches of dumped emails. Dr Vesselin Bontchev (@bontchev), a top Bulgarian malware researcher, has analyzed documents published by the organization and detected […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2016
A new LOCKY ransomware campaign targets the healthcare

Malware researchers at FireEye security firm have spotted a new Locky ransomware campaign mainly  targeting the healthcare sector. Security experts from FireEye have spotted a Locky ransomware campaign mainly targeting the healthcare sector, Telecom and Transportation industries. Attackers launched  a massive phishing campaign to deliver the threat. The campaign bit organizations worldwide, mostly in the US, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2016
Iran investigates possible cyber attacks behind a string Oil Industry incidents

Iran ’s cyberspace security authorities are investigating a string of fires in the country oil and gas facilities. Incidents or cyber sabotage? Once again, something of strange is happening in Iran, the Government of Teheran is investigating a recent string of incidents occurred in critical infrastructure in the country. The Iran’s Supreme National Cyberspace Council […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2016
Bitcoin.org warns state-sponsored attacks against the Bitcoin Core

The organization that controls the development of the Bitcoin software warns users that nation-state actors may hit the upcoming Bitcoin Core release. The organization that controls the development of the Bitcoin system, Bitcoin.org, has warned of possible cyber attacks coordinated by nation-state attackers. Bitcoin Core is the open source client for Bitcoin, the version Bitcoin Core […]