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Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016
Once again identity thieves use stolen SSNs in IRS attack

The IRS detected roughly unauthorized attempts using 464,000 unique SSNs, and 101,000 attempts allowed crooks in generating PINs. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently confirmed that cyber criminals abused the Electronic Filing PIN application. The Electronic Filing PIN application is running on irs.gov and allows taxpayers to generate a PIN that they can use to file tax […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016
Million CISCO ASA Firewalls potentially vulnerable to attacks

A flaw in Cisco ASA Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a reload of the affected system or to remotely execute code. It’s a bad period for IT manufacturers, recently the security community has discovered serious and anomalous  vulnerabilities affecting popular products like Juniper equipment and Fortinet Forti OS firewalls. Now, it is now the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016
Poseidon Group, a single actor behind a long series of attacks

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have linked a series of cyber attacks started in 2001 to a single threat actor called the Poseidon Group. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have identified a single threat actor behind a long-known campaign of cyberattacks financially motivated. The group of hackers identified by Kaspersky dubbed Poseidon Group attempts to extort money […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
SAP fixed a flaw in xMII that could open the door to nation-state hackers

SAP fixed a vulnerability affecting SAP MII can be used as a starting point of multi-stage attacks aiming to get control over plant devices and manufacturing systems. SAP fixed a critical vulnerability in its application that could be exploited by hackers, especially nation-state actors, to compromise industrial manufacturing software. SAP issued a critical software update that […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
Crooks are offering Apple employees up to $23,000 for their login credentials

According to former Apple employees interviewed by the Business Insider, cyber criminals are offering Apple staffers in Ireland up to $23,000 for their login details. Insiders are one of the greatest security problems for any organizations, working from the inside they can operate under the radar for a log time stealing information and sabotaging processes and infrastructures. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
February 2016 Patch Tuesday – All Windows are affected by a critical flaw

Microsoft February 2016 Patch Tuesday updates include a total of 13 bulletins that resolve a total of 41 security flaws in Windows, one of them affects all supported versions. All supported versions of Windows are affected by a critical vulnerability recently fixed by Microsoft. The IT giant has released 13 security bulletins, six issues are rated as […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
Russian Metel group manipulated ruble-dollar exchange rate with malware

A Russian group of cyber criminals known as METEL has hacked the systems at the Kazan-based Energobank and manipulate Ruble-Dollar Exchange Rate infecting them with a malware. A Russian cyber gang has hacked the systems at the Kazan-based Energobank and manipulate Ruble-Dollar Exchange Rate infecting them with a malware. The event occurred exactly one year ago, in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2016
Are you searching for a Facebook Hacking Tool? Be careful!

Security Experts at ESET security firm discovered a new variant of a known trojan disguised as a Facebook Hacking Tool. Security researchers at ESET have published an interesting post about a new Facebook hacking tool. I receive every week dozen emails requesting me instruction to hack Facebook accounts. The hacking tool recently discovered is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2016
Rent the infamous AlienSpy backdoor is now quite easy

Security experts at Kaspersky have spotted in the wild a new variant of AlienSpy RAT Family openly offered with a model of malware-as-a-service. Today we will speak about a case of malware-as-a-service, in the specific case the threat is a remote access trojan, aka RAT, that could be used to gain control over multiple platforms, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2016
Carbanak cybergang is back and it is not alone

Experts at Kaspersky Lab discovered that Carbanak cybergang is back and other groups are adopting similar APT-style techniques to steal money. Security researchers at the 2016 edition of SAS in Tenerife revealed that the infamous Carbanak gang is back, and it is not the unique group that is adopting APT-style techniques to steal money from banks. […]