Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
A group of researchers demonstrated that a number of existing facial recognition systems can be fooled by 3D facial models made from Facebook photos. Facial recognition systems still have a certain margin of error, for example, trying to identify people of color. A group of researchers from the University of North Carolina demonstrated that a number […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2016
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $34 million in funding to projects aimed at the protection of power grid from cyber attacks. A cyber attack against a critical infrastructure is an event that government doesn’t exclude, for this reason, one of the pillars of their cyber strategy is the adoption of countermeasures to improve their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
Twitter announced it has shut down 360,000 terrorist-related accounts since last year, Daesh traffic on its platform has plummeted by 45 percent in 2 years. Social media platforms are privileged instruments for the ISIS propaganda, members of the terror organization make a large use of social media like Twitter to share images and news about […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
A security expert noticed strange transactions from the Bitcoin wallet of the SilkRoad (now in the hands of Feds) to the ShadowBrokers ‘ wallet. I was surfing the Internet searching for interesting data about the ShadowBrokers group that leaked exploits and hacking tools belonging to the NSA Equation Group. I have found a very intriguing analysis […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Hitler ransomware just deletes files instead encrypt them Security Affairs newsletter Round 73 – News […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
Researchers tested the BENIGNCERTAIN tool included in the NSA data dump that allows attackers to extract VPN passwords from certain Cisco devices. Following the disclosure of the NSA dump, IT vendors Cisco and Fortinet issued security patches to fix the flaws exploited by the Equation Group in their products. Now, security researchers have uncovered another […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
According to Kaspersky experts Brazilian crooks have made an important addition to their malware leveraging on the PowerShell. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a sophisticated banking trojan targeting Brazilian users. The threat, codenamed Trojan-Proxy.PowerShell.Agent.a, leverages on the Microsoft’s PowerShell utility. It is considered one of the most complex Brazilian malware samples discovered since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 20, 2016
The Australian police had targeted the Love Zone child porn site, ran it for a while and managed to gain access at least to 30 US IPs. Apart from FBI, there are other organizations that have tried to identify the participants of child porn websites, so that they could get their hands on them and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2016
A malware researcher has analyzed the attachments of in the WikiLeaks email dumps and discovered more than 300 pieces of malware. WikiLeaks has published more than 300 pieces of malicious code among its caches of dumped emails. Dr Vesselin Bontchev (@bontchev), a top Bulgarian malware researcher, has analyzed documents published by the organization and detected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2016
Malware researchers at FireEye security firm have spotted a new Locky ransomware campaign mainly targeting the healthcare sector. Security experts from FireEye have spotted a Locky ransomware campaign mainly targeting the healthcare sector, Telecom and Transportation industries. Attackers launched a massive phishing campaign to deliver the threat. The campaign bit organizations worldwide, mostly in the US, […]
