Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
In this blog, we introduce a generalized algorithm over RSA which is advanced, adaptable and scalable in using the number of primes. Cryptography is used for secure communication since ancient days for providing confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information. Public key cryptography is a classification of cryptography having a pair of keys for encryption and decryption. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale the system called CatchApp that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications. The Israeli surveillance firm Wintego is offering for sale a system that is able to hack WhatsApp encrypted communications from mobile devices within close proximity of a hidden Wi-Fi hacking device in a backpack. The news has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
Researchers at the Bellingcat agency have been hit with spear phishing attacks and account takeover attempts while investigating flight MH17 crash. Once again cyber security experts warn of a new hacking campaign that this time is targeting Citizen Journalists reporting the crash of the flight MH17 of the Malaysian Airlines. According to the intelligence firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
Necurs botnet, the monster is resurrected. Banking Trojans and Ransomware propagated via spam is bring backing the high-volume spam campaign Botnets are like monsters that surface back after some period of inactivity, this time, the monster it the dreaded Necurs botnet. The Necurs Botnet is one of the world’s largest malicious architectures, used to spread the dreaded […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2016
Every time you type a number to start an iMessage conversation on your iPhone, Apple logs your message contacts and other metadata. In January 2015, experts claimed that Apple is not able to read messages sent between devices through iMessages, but reported that the company but it is still able to access data in the backups. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2016
The Talos team published a detailed analysis of the GozNym botnet, it was possible because the experts cracked the DGA algorithm used by the malware. In April 2015, the researchers from the IBM X-Force Research discovered a new banking Trojan dubbed GozNym Trojan that combines best features of Gozi ISFB and Nymaim malware. The GozNym has been seen targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2016
Good news, the social network giant Facebook finally announced the availability of the open source OSquery developer kit for Windows. Facebook announced to have completed the porting of its detection open-source tool OSquery to Windows. The tool allows users to monitor networks and to detect potential malicious activities, such as the presence of malicious codes. The cross-platform tool, that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2016
Experts from Carbon Black have spotted a new Adware campaign leveraging on sophisticated obfuscation techniques borrowed from Operation Aurora. Security experts from Carbon Black have spotted a new Adware campaign leveraging on very sophisticated obfuscation techniques. The Adware campaign was used by crooks to spread ransomware and according to the malware researchers using tactics to similarities to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2016
The hosting provider OVH continues to face massive DDoS attacks launched by a botnet composed at least of 150000 IoT devices. Last week, the hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack, likely the largest one ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter sharing an image that lists the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 27, 2016
A Group of the researchers from the Iswatlab team at the University of Sannio demonstrated how is easy to create new malware that eludes antimalware. It’s not easy to ‘write’ a new malware that is able to evade the detection of antimalware and other defensive software, but it is easier to ‘produce’ a new malware that […]
