Breaking News

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2017
Forcepoint spotted the modular Felismus RAT, it appears the work of skilled professionals

Malware researchers at Forcepoint have discovered a new modular malicious code, dubbed Felismus RAT, that appears the work of skilled professionals. Malware researchers at Forcepoint have discovered a new modular malicious code dubbed Felismus RAT. The malware has been used in highly targeted campaigns, experts believe the Felismus RAT is the work of skilled professionals. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2017
95,000 job seekers affected by the McDonald’s Canada data breach

The McDonald’s Canada career website was recently subject to a cyber-attack. Hackers stole records of 95,000 job seekers. McDonald’s Canada confirmed that hackers have stolen the personal data of about 95,000 job seekers from its recruitment website. The data were provided by candidates searching for a job at McDonald’s Canada since March 2014. The company […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2017
German Military to Launch the Bundeswehr’s new Cyber and Information Space Command

Today the German Military is going to launch a cyber command, the Bundeswehr’s new Cyber and Information Space (CIR) Command. Today the German Military is going to launch a cyber command, the Bundeswehr’s new Cyber and Information Space (CIR) Command, a structure that is considered strategic for the defence of the country from cyber attacks. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2017
Hacking Smart TVs remotely leveraging broadcasting signals

A security expert demonstrated how to hack SmartTV using a low-cost transmitter for embedding malicious commands into a rogue DVB-T signals. The number of IoT devices continues to grow, but unfortunately, their level of security is often very poor and at the same time the number of threats to smart objects is rapidly increasing. Due to security […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2017
WikiLeaks Reveals the Marble framework, used by the CIA to make hard the attribution

WikiLeaks has published the third batch of documents dubbed Marble that revealed the CIA anti-forensics tool dubbed Marble framework. WikiLeaks released the third batch of the CIA Vault7 archive that shed light the anti-forensics tools used by the intelligence Agency, The first tranche of CIA documents from Vault7 was related to hacking tools and techniques, while […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2017
Turla hacking group continues to improve its Carbon backdoor

The Russian group Turla has continued to improve its Carbon backdoor, experts from ESET detected new versions released on a regular basis. The Russian APT group known as Turla (also known as Waterbug, KRYPTON and Venomous Bear) has continued to improve its Carbon backdoor, experts from ESET detected new versions released on a regular basis. Carbon is a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2017
Samsung Galaxy S8 facial recognition system to unlock the device can be bypassed with a photo

Users can unlock Samsung Galaxy S8 phone by holding their Samsung Galaxy S8 in front of their eyes or their face … or their image. It looks like a film already seen, an IT giant presents a new product and hackers defeat its security measures. This time we are speaking of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2017
Owners of GitHub repositories targeted by the Dimnie data-stealer malware

Since mid-January, attackers have targeted owners of GitHub repositories with the Dimnie data-stealer malware. It is a relatively unknown threat actor. Attackers have targeted developers having Github repositories with a data-stealing malware called Dimnie. The malicious code includes keylogging features and modules that capture screenshots. The Dimnie malware was spotted by researchers at Palo Alto Networks in mid-January when an […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2017
Pro-ISIS Amaq News Site Hacked and exploited to distribute Malware

The Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency has been hacked and used to spread a malicious a FlashPlayer file. Who is behind the attack? The Islamic State-affiliated Amaq news agency has been hacked and used to spread a malware. The website is considered as the official news site of the Islamic State, it was used for propaganda and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2017
President Donald Trump is going to extend by one year the Executive Order 13694

US President Trump is extending by one year special powers introduced by President Obama with the Executive Order 13694 on cyber security. The US President Donald Trump intends to extend by one year the Executive Order 13694 that gives the US Governments special powers to issue sanctions against people and organizations engaged in significant cyberattacks and cybercrime against […]