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Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 41 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs InterApp, the device that can hack any Smartphone European credit card payment terminals are plagued with serious flaws The Ramnit Botnet is back after the law enforcement takedown Darkweb, a look back at 2015 events and 2016 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Turkish hackers took over a Russian Govt Instagram account

Alleged Turkish hackers have taken over the Russian Communications and Mass Media Minister Nikolai Nikiforov’s Instagram account. Events in the cyberspace are strictly correlated with facts in the real life, in many cases, disputes between countries are associated with numerous cyber events that could be analyzed by intelligence analysts. The recent crisis in Crimea between Russia and Ukraine is just […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
Analyzing Ransom32, the first JavaScript ransomware variant

Ransom32 is a new crypto-ransomware variant recently reported, it is the first ransomware variant that has been developed in the JavaScript. Ransom32 is a new crypto-ransomware variant that was first reported on December 29th, 2015, by an infected user on the Bleeping Computer forums. It is the first ransomware variant that has been developed in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2016
@FFD8FFDB Twitter bot spies on poorly configured cameras

@FFD8FFDB is a Twitter bot that spies on poorly configured cameras tweeting the images captured by the connected devices. There is an air of mystery when you first notice @FFD8FFDB. However, the next thing you will see is that really gets on to you. There is a strange Twitter account, @FFD8FFDB, that every few minute tweets pictures taken […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2016
Anti-IS group ‘New World Hackers’ claims BBC website attack

A group of hackers named “New World Hackers” claims the DDoS attack on BBC’s website. They launched it to test their attack capabilities. On December 31th, the BBC website and iPlayer service went down due to a major “distributed denial of service” attack.” The attack started at 0700 GMT and paralyzed the websites for more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2016
Hackers fully controlled a PlayStation 4 running a Linux distro

The hacking crew dubbed Fail0verflow has managed to hack PlayStation 4 (PS4) to run a Linux kernel-based operating system. The PlayStation 4 is considered by the experts a fortress so the hacking community is always interested in any news regarding its hack. Recently a hacker who calls himself CTurt claimed to develop a fully jailbroken version of the PlayStation 4 […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2016
Modern railroad systems vulnerable to cyber attacks

A team of researchers has evaluated the level of cyber security implemented in modern railroad systems and discovered several vulnerabilities. A team of experts composed of Sergey Gordeychik, Alexander Timorin and Gleb Gritsai of SCADA StrangeLove, recently disclosed their findings at the 32nd Chaos Communication Congress (32C3) in Germany. Railroads belong to the critical infrastructure of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2016
All BBC Websites went down after a major DDoS attack

The BBC website and iPlayer service went down on December 31th morning following a major cyber attack raising panic on the social media. The cyber attack started at 0700 GMT when all the visitors to the site started seeing an error message. Thousands of users complained on social media after seeing the error message, and the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2016
A look at North Korea’s ‘paranoid’ Red Star OS computer operating system

Experts at the last Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg  analyzed the North Korean ‘paranoid’ Red Star OS computer operating system. North Korea has its new operating system, the Red Star OS, which is used by the population of a country NOT connected to the World Wide Web to access state media and some officially approved sites. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2016
US Eavesdropping on Netanyahu Communications

After a report from the WSJ, the US Government is facing an allegation regarding eavesdropping of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and members of Congress. After a report from the Wall Street Journal, the US Government is facing an allegation regarding eavesdropping of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and members of Congress. According to a report from […]