Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
The anti-phishing company PhishMe that observed that as of the end of March 93 percent of all phishing emails contained a ransomware. Ransomware is becoming a privileged instrument of cyber criminals to rapidly earn money, the diffusion of this type of threat is changing the threat landscape scenario, for example, as of the end of March, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hacked, a group of young hackers known as OurMine Team took over its Pinterest, Twitter, LinkedIn accounts. No one is secure when dealing with cyber security, event the popular Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His social media accounts Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn were hacked. On Sunday, A group of hackers using the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale on the Dark Web. Another day another data breach, this time 100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale. Some experts estimate that the number of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
Anomali Labs analyzed attacks against the reputation of FTSE 100 companies highlighting the availability in the Dark Web of employees data. Anomali Labs analyzed attacks against the reputation of FTSE 100 Â companies highlighting the availability in the Dark Web of employees’ data. Brand spoofing is an illegal practice that causes several damages to companies worldwide, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2016
The popular Tor developer Jacob Appelbaum left the Core Team of the Tor Project after âsexual mistreatmentâ allegations. Appelbaum is recognized as one of the most active and influential digital advocates and security researchers. He is one of the few reporters to have had a preview of the NSA secret documents leaked by Edward Snowden. The news is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2016
The notorious crime forum Sh0ping[.]su has been hacked by unknowns that leaked online credit card data and stolen accounts. Data breaches are a common problem also for bad actors, in many cases cyber criminals hack websites of competitors to damage their reputation and push out them from the business. Recently we discussed the hacks of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Hacking NTP Servers from Long-Distance with low cost devices Why surveillance firm Blue Coat was granted a powerful encryption certificate? Security Affairs newsletter Round 62 â News of the week Highly targeted ransomware campaign hit Swedish Telia […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2016
More than 19 months after its public disclosure the CVE-2014-3704 is still exploited in attacks against Drupal-based websites. It was October 2014, when Drupal patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704)Â that was affecting all Drupal core 7.x versions up to the recently-released 7.32 version, which fixed the issue. The patch issued by Drupal fixed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2016
A group of Israeli researchers demonstrated how to steal RSA encryption keys through a PC’s noises during cryptographic operations. If you think that air-gapped networks are totally secure you are wrong, in the past, many research teams have devised methods to steal data from computers disconnected from the Internet. They demonstrated that it is possible […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2016
Trend Micro experts discovered a new strain of Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed FastPOS that implements a quick and efficient exfiltration technique. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of PoS malware dubbed FastPOS that is able to quickly exfiltrate harvested data. The malware was used by threat actors to target both enterprises and SMBs […]
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