A new variant of the infamous Tinba banking trojan has emerged in the wild and is targeting financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Even small threats can scare the giants, this is the case of Tinba, a small malware that continues to create serious problems for financial institutions. Tinba is a popular financial trojan, the fifth version is […]
An investigation conducted by The Motherboard demonstrates that is quite easy to buy Surveillance Equipment avoiding export restrictions. Recently I wrote a post titled “Cellphone Surveillance: The Secret Arsenal” that includes interesting information about the principal cellphone surveillance equipment available on the market. This equipment is reserved in the majority of cases for a military or law enforcement usage, but […]
National Security Agency says the US Govt surveillance programme for collecting domestic telephone records rmeets security standards The United States government’s updated spying program for gathering native people’ phone records has passed the muster as far as civil and privacy principles, the NSA (National Security Agency) claims. The new structure, which was executed in November […]
The FBI raided another the second home in Chicago to arrest the second alleged culprit in the Fappening hack Investigation. In 2014 an unknown hacker leaked online nude pictures of celebrities, including the popular and Kate Upton. We are speaking about the case known as The Fappening, the hacker took over a large number of Apple iCloud accounts, […]
A collection of interesting info about the Stuxnet attack published years ago by The New York Times, a must-read for experts. The popular cyber security expert Mikko Hypponen has retwitted an old blog post on the Stuxnet malware, a good opportunity to summarize the events and understand what is happened behind the scene. In 2011, The […]
The Las Vegas Casino firm Affinity Gaming sued Trustwave for allegedly failing a data breach investigation, but Trustwave denies any wrongdoing. Affinity Gaming, a casino operator operating five casinos in Nevada, and six in other locations in the US, has sued the It security company Trustwave for a “bad” investigation, after a network breach it […]
Ukrainian Government is accusing Russia of organizing hacker attacks against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Cyber security experts of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine are blaming Russian hackers for a new cyber attack against the Boryspil airport’s networks. Presidential Administration’s spokesman for ATO Andriy Lysenko (ATO), explained that the systems at […]
At the recent ShmooCon conference a researcher presented a LastPass phishing attack that could allow hackers to steal your password. We discussed several times the importance of password managers such as LastPass, but sometimes hackers could exploit them to launch their attacks. The security researcher Sean Cassidy has presented on Saturday at the ShmooCon hacker conference […]
It has been fixed the OpenSSH vulnerability that can be exploited to steal crypto keys from vulnerable clients. Recently a critical vulnerability in OpenSSH has been fixed, the flaw can leak secret cryptographic keys. The flaw affects end users version of OpenSSH and not server side implementations. Many experts compared the effects of this flaw to the […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The FBI used the NIT to de-anonymize thousand Pedos on Tor Why PS4 is not so secure for the ISIS membersâ communication? Russian Army is largely investing in modern UAVs Juniper will drop a function alleged developed […]