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Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
OpKillingBay – Anonymous shut down Japanese airport site to protest against slaughter of Dolphin

OpKillingBay – A group of hackers linked to the Anonymous collective shut down the Japanese Airport Website to protest against the slaughter of Dolphin. The collective Anonymous has launched a DDoS attack that shut down the Website of the Japanese Narita International Airport on Friday night (at around 9:30 p.m) until Saturday (around 1 a.m). The attack has been confirmed by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
A flaw in TeslaCrypt ransomware allows file recovering

The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2016
Operators behind Angler Exploit Kit included CryptoWall 4.0

The latest variant of CryptoWall 4.0, one of the most popular and dangerous ransomware threats, has been recently added to the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. In my 2016 Cyber Security Predictions, I have predicted the criminal practices of the extortion will reach levels never seen before. Cyber criminals will threaten victims with ransomware and DDoS attack in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Skype – IP will now be hidden by default to avoid attacks

Skype announced it will hide the user’s IP address, the new security feature is enabled by default in the latest update provided by the company. Skype now hides users’ IP addresses, a measure implemented to protect them against attacks from online trolls. Skype announced the security feature this week in a blog post, the feature is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 44 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Cyber defence is a profitable Hamster Wheel Energy industry under unceasing attack in 2015 Security Affairs newsletter Round 43 – News of the week Critical OpenSSH bug leaks private crypto keys just fixed LastPass phishing attack could […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams

Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams, including the one that is monitoring your kids while sleeping. The explosion of the paradigm of the Internet of things has dramatically enlarged our surface of attack, it is quite easy to locate vulnerable devices and hack them by using search engines like Shodan and Censys. Both platforms allow finding […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Europol, a new EU counter terrorism centre opening this month

The director of Europol Rob Wainwright announced a new European counter-terrorism centre opening this month to fight the terrorism. The terrorism is perceived as the principal threat for the Western countries, for this reason the European State members announced the creation of a new European counter-terrorism centre. The centre is opening this month, it aims […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
New RAT Trochilus, a sophisticated weapon used by cyber spies

Researchers spotted a new espionage campaign relying on a number of RATs including the powerful Trochilus threat. Security experts have uncovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) named Trochilus that is able to evade sandbox analysis. The Trochilus malware was used to targeted attacks in multi-pronged cyber espionage operations. Experts at Arbor Networks uncovered a cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
Crooks steal over $50 million from aircraft systems manufacturer FACC

The Austrian engineering firm FACC which designs Airbus, Boeing aero parts was victim of a significant cyber attack. I always remark the importance of cyber security in a business context, a proper cyber security posture is important like the finances of a company. A cyber security incident could have serious effects on the business continuity […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2016
The Fortinet SSH backdoor found in many other products

A review of all the products allowed Fortinet to discover the same SSH backdoor on some versions of its solutions. Recently security experts reported the presence of a SSH backdoor in Fortinet firewalls, news of the day is that the company has found the same backdoor also in several new products, many of them running current […]