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Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2015
Cracka hackers who doxed CIA Chief, now hit the FBI Deputy Director

Cracka, the crew of young hackers who doxed the CIA Director John Brennan now hit the FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano ’s wife by hacking her email account. I always say, give a keyboard and internet connection to a kid and he would destroy your company. It is not a joke, the effort needed to launch […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2015
Trojanized adware: already infected more than 20,000 Android Apps

Researchers at Lookout firm have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Researchers at mobile security firm Lookout have come across a new malicious adware family distributed via trojanized versions of popular Android applications. Security experts at Lookout have discovered a new strain of adware dubbed Shuanet, which is distributed via […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015
CryptoWall 4.0 Released with a New Look and Several New Features

The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015
GovRAT, the malware-signing-as-a-service platform in the underground

Security Experts at InfoArmor discovered GovRAT, a malware-signing-as-a-service platform that is offered to APT groups in the underground. In the past, I have explained why digital certificates are so attractive for crooks and intelligence agencies, one of the most interesting uses is the signature of malware code in order to fool antivirus. Naturally, digital certificates […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015
A Fourth Teenager was arrested over TalkTalk data breach

British police announced Tuesday they had arrested a fourth teenager in connection with a data breach suffered by the Internet Service Provider TalkTalk. The investigation of the TalkTalk data breach is still going, in a few days other two suspects have been arrested by law enforcement under the country’s Computer Misuse Act. The company suffered other two […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015
#opKKK Anonymous denied involvement in recent leak

#opKKK – The hacking collective Anonymous is denying involvement in the Monday leak of alleged Ku Klux Klan members that included several US senators. A few days ago the popular Anonymous collective has posted a video message on YouTube and a message on Twitter to announce that it is holding a list of names of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2015
Project Zero Experts Found critical flaws in Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge

Experts at Google’s Project Zero have discovered a number of high severity flaws in the Android OS version running on Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge smartphones. Experts at Google Project Zero are conducting an analysis of the Android operating system running on the Android OS installed by other manufacturers on their mobile devices. The principal manufactures […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
Chimera, a new strain of ransomware in the wild

According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
More than 100 Million Android users at risk due to the Baidu Moplus SDK

A vulnerability known as Wormhole affects the Baidu Moplus SDK and potentially exposes more than 100 Million users to cyber attacks. The Moplus software development kit (SDK) distributed by the Chinese Search Engine Baidu includes a functionality that can be exploited to gain access to the user’s device. The backdoor-like feature potentially exposes more than 100 Million Android users to cyber attacks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2015
KeeFarce Hacking tool steals encrypted credentials from KeePass password manager

KeeFarce is a recently released hacking tool that swipes encrypted credentials from the KeePass password manager through the DLL injection. A password manager is considered one of the most secure tools to archive strong passwords in a computer. Unfortunately, the presence of a malware on the PC can expose passwords even if they are stored […]