Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
The customers of popular travel websites are targeted by phishing scam in an attempt to lure them into disclosing personal information. The users of popular travel websites are targeted by phishing campaigns in an attempt to lure them into disclosing personal information. The travel websites have issued an alert to inform their customers of fraudulent […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Password Recovery Scam â how to hack a Gmail account Signal amplification and brute-force attack for car thieves Electronic Frontier Foundation â WhatsApp ranked as the worst at protecting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
The authors of the Stegoloader malware are exploiting digital steganography to target companies worldwide, mainly US Healthcare companies. A couple of weeks ago, the security researchers at Dell SecureWorks discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Stegoloader, that exploits steganography as an evasion technique. Once infected the victimâs machine, a specific loader module loads a PNG file that contains […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2015
Security experts have discovered the availability in underground forums of the credentials and other information related to SCADA systems. SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisitions) systems are the most important components for the control of processes inside a critical infrastructure. A recent report published by Dell revealed a 100 percent increase in the number of attacks on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2015
The law enforcement agencies from six European countries coordinated by the Europol have arrested members of a Ukrainian ring behind Zeus and SpyEye botnets. The law enforcement agencies from six European countries have dealt a serious blow to the organized crime by taking down a Ukrainian ring suspected of developing managing the popular Zeus and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2015
The security researchers at Sucuri firm discovered a malicious code that could be used to steal payment card data from Magento platform. Security experts at Sucuri have uncovered a new method used by criminals to syphon payment card data from websites based on the Magento e-commerce Platform. Researchers explained that attackers can collect any data submitted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2015
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating on the activities related to a FIN4 APT targeting executives at publicly traded firms. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched an investigation on the activities related to a hacking crew targeting executives at publicly traded firms. According to the Reuters, the SEC has contacted at least […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2015
Security experts at Cisco revealed the existence of a default SSH key in many security appliances, an attacker can exploit it to control the devices. Security experts at Cisco discovered default SSH Key in many Cisco security appliances, an attacker could use them to establish SSH connection and control the devices. The abuse of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2015
Security experts at Trend Micro published a report on the Deep Web and related illegal activities that exploit the darknets it contains. Experts at TrendMicro published an interesting report on the Deep Web focusing their analysis on the services and products available in the dark part of the internet that is not indexed by the principal search […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Facebook developed an astonishing algorithm for facial recognition considered as the latest Artificial Intelligence step, it’s name is PIPER. Artificial Intelligence has been playing an important role to offer better and outstanding features in applications and a lot of computer giants and agencies have spent huge amount of money to acquire more and more. Facebook […]
