Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2016
The online editions of principal Swedish newspapers were knocked out for several hours by a cyber attack during the weekend. The websites if a Swedish were shut down in the weekend due to an “extremely dangerous and serious” cyber attack. The websites hit by the hackers are the Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Aftonbladet, Dagens Industri, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs A new massive spam campaign is spreading Locky ransomware downloaders Security Affairs newsletter Round 51 â News of the week CISCO warns customers of high-severity flaws in modems and gateways Reuters â Malware suspected in the Bangladesh […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
A redaction error in court-ordered release of the Lavabit case files confirmed that Edward Snowden was the target of the FBI. Lavabit was an encrypted webmail service founded in 2004 by Ladar Levison, it closed on August 8, 2013 after the US authorities ordered it to turn over its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) private keys to order government surveillance activities. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2016
Trend Micro discovered a Business Email Compromise Campaign leveraging on the Olympic Vision keylogger that targets Middle East and Asia Pacific Companies. A new malware-based campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the US, Middle East and Asia. The attackers are using malware in a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack in order to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Swiss Peopleâs Party confirmed that they have been the target of hackers who have stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. A group of hackers, which calls itself NSHC, claims to have hacked the Switzerlandâs largest party, the conservative Swiss Peopleâs Party (SVP), and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. The cracked archive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Anonymous Hacker collective claims to publish Donald Trumpâs personal information, including Social Security Number and addresses. Alleged members of the Anonymous collective have leaked Donald Trumpâs already public âprivateâ phone numbers and other information online. The hackers have leaked also addresses, including the one of the Palm Beach residence in Florida, and social security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
The Ukranian power blackout has demonstrated the worrying effects of the SCADA hacking, other countries like UK fear similar attacks. All the warnings from security experts throughout the years have unfortunately been disregarded, when it comes to the hackersâ threats in strategical spots, such as that of power generation. As a result, hackers have acted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2016
According to the experts at Heimdal Security firm, the ransomware Teslacrypt 4 arrived and it is infecting systems in the wild. According to the experts at Heimdal Security, the fourth version of the infamous Teslacrypt ransomware has just been launched. Teslacrypt  4 implements new functionalities and is more stable of previous versions, stability, it also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
Chris Vickery has discovered online the database of the Kinoptic iOS app, which was abandoned by developers, with details of over 198,000 users. The security researcher Chris Vickery has discovered a database belonging to an abandoned iOS app, the Kinoptic iOS app, that is exposing on the Internet personal details of over 198,000 users. The Kinoptic iOS app allowed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2016
From August 2015 to February 2016 Buhtrap group managed to conduct 13 successful attacks against Russian banks for a total amount of $25.7 mln. Since August of 2015, the Buhtrap group has conducted 13 successful attacks against financial institutions stealing more than â˝1.86 billion RUB ($27.4M USD). In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap, […]
