Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2017
The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo hack that affected three billion accounts. The Kazakhstan-born Canadian citizen Karim Baratov (22) (Kay, a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov), has pleaded guilty to massive 2014 Yahoo data breach that affected three billion accounts. Karim Baratov was arrested in Toronto at his home by the Toronto Police […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
Google identified a new family of Android malware dubbed Tizi spyware by using Google Play Protect, it spies on popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram. In May, Google introduced the defense system called Google Play Protect to protect the Android devices, it implements a machine learning and app usage analysis to identify any malicious activity on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
The website of the coffee vendor Bulletproof 360 was infected with a malware that stole customers’ financial and personal data. The firm Bulletproof 360, Inc. manufactures coffee and tea products, and dietary supplements for upgrading mind and body. It serves customers online, as well as through stores in the United States and internationally. The company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
An joint operation conducted by Europol and other law enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of more than 20,520 domains for selling counterfeit products. The operation, dubbed “In Our Sites (Project TransAtlantic VIII),” allowed to seize domains that were offering for sale any kind of counterfeit product, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2017
CoinPouch publicly disclosed the hack of a Verge specific node wallets and the theft if $655,000 from its XVG Verge wallets. A mystery surrounds the recent hack of CoinPouch wallet app, users lost over $655,000 worth of Verge cryptocurrency. On Tuesday, the maintainers of the CoinPouch multi-currency wallet app published a statement that disclosed a security breach […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2017
A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office flaw were publicly disclosed, the firm Reversing Lab observed Cobalt group using it. A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office vulnerability were publicly disclosed, security experts from firm Reversing Lab observed criminal gang using it in the wild. The gang is the notorious Cobalt hacking group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2017
A new Mirai variant is rapidly spreading, experts observed around 100K IPs running the scans in the past 60 hours searching for flawed ZyXEL PK5001Z routers. According to Li Fengpei, a security researcher with Qihoo 360 Netlab, the publication of the proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code in a public vulnerabilities database is the root cause of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2017
Imgur, the popular image sharing service, confirms email addresses and passwords were stolen in a security breach occurred in 2014. Are you an Imgur user? News of the day it that the popular image sharing service Imgur was hacked in 2014, the incident was confirmed by the company a few days after Uber admitted to have concealed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2017
The Scarab ransomware is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs botnet. Scarab is a strain of ransomware, first spotted in June by the security researcher Michael Gillespie, that is now being distributed to millions of users via a massive spam campaign powered with the dreaded Necurs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2017
Security experts are observing numerous massive scans going on for Bitcoin and Ethereum wallets in order to steal their funds. The continuing increase of both Bitcoin and Ethereum price is attracting crooks that are spending a lot of efforts in the attempt to steal funds stored in the wallets used for these two cryptocurrencies. Security researchers worldwide are observing an […]
