Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2016
MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer, this means no more passwords. The giant multinational financial services corporation MasterCard announced the extension of the ‘pay-by-selfie’ facial recognition technology to 14 countries this summer. In October Mastercard announced the creation of a new payment method based on the Identity Check […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2016
Financially-motivated actors have targeted employees of at least six Russian banks into installing the Ratopak Trojan, experts have found evidence of an extended hacking campaign. According to the Symantec security firm, a cyber criminal gang financially -motivated has targeted employees of Russian banks. The threat actors have been using a Trojan called Ratopak to gain control over the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2016
According to security experts Russian nation-state hackers are behind cyber espionage campaigns against opposition groups and NGOs in Syria. Russia is behind a cyber espionage campaign against Syrian opposition groups and NGOs, the Kremlin wants to conduct a PSYOP to influence the sentiment of the country on the humanitarian crisis as a diversionary action for its military […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threat actors behind the “Admedia attacks” are now looking with increasing interest to Joomla. This is the discovery made by the experts at the Internet Storm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
The FBI must provide details on the network investigative technique used to hack more than 1000 computers in a case involving child pornography. In a case involving child pornography, the FBI was ruled by a judge to provide all the code used to hack the PC of suspects and detailed information related to the procedure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
The experts at the IBM X-Force threat intelligence have discovered that the source code for Android malware GM Bot was leaked online. Bad news for the Android community, the experts at IBM X-Force threat intelligence have discovered that the source code for Android malware GM Bot was leaked on an underground. The source code was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
Anonymous launched a series of cyber attacks against government websites of Saudi Arabia to protest the execution of 47 people, including Mr. Sheikh Nimr Al Nimr. The Anonymous collective is conducting a hacking campaign against the Saudi Arabian Government to protest executions of 47 people. On January 2nd, the Government announced the executions on terrorism charges, among the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday, intruders were able to compromise it and serve malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday 20th, February, intruders were able to compromise the website serving malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The disconcerting announcement was made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Stolen card data of 100,000 Britons for sale on the clear web Iranian hackers compromised former IDF chiefs computer Security Affairs newsletter Round 47 â News of the week Man charged of Laundering $19.6 Million earned with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
The representatives of the Utah State confirmed that their systems experiences 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data Center. The Utah state computer systems experience 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA data center in the state. The Utah Data Center, also known as the […]
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