Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2017
Experts from security firm Sixgill have discovered a new strain of the macOS Proton RAT that is offered for sale on Russian cybercrime underground. The Dark Web is the right place where to find any kind of illegal products and services, malware such as banking trojan and spyware are very popular in cyber criminal underground. Recently a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2017
Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company quickly adopted the countermeasures to stop the attack. According to the experts from security firm AppRiver, Danish-speaking users were hit by an unusual malware-based attack. The attack hit Denmark, Germany, and several surrounding Scandinavian countries on Wednesday morning. Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2017
The Dutch police decrypted a number of PGP messages sent by crooks through their BlackBerry mobile devices for the criminal investigation on Ennetcom. PGP is an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can be used to sign emails, files, documents, or disk partitions. On April 2016, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2017
Researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day in Apache Struts 2, the flaw has being exploiting by that threat actors in the wild. Security researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day, tracked as CVE-2017-5638, in Apache Struts 2, and the bad news is that threat actors in the wild are already exploiting it. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2017
The manufacture Dahua Technology has started releasing firmware updates fix a serious flaw in some models of its video recorders and IP cameras. Security experts believe the flaw is a true backdoor that could be used to remotely access the user database containing usernames and hashed passwords. The backdoor was discovered by a researcher that is known online as âbashis.â Once the attacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2017
A few days ago the experts Chris Vickery announced that he will reveal the source of a massive data leak. Now he said it is from worldâs biggest spam networks. A few days ago the popular cyber security expert Chris Vickery from security firm MacKeeper announced that he will shortly reveal the source of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2017
The experts spotted a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed StoneDrill that is linked to Shamoon 2 and Charming Kitten. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered further information about the dreaded Shamoon 2 malware. The experts spotted a new sophisticated strain of malware dubbed StoneDrill that is linked to Shamoon 2 and Charming Kitten (aka Newscaster and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2017
Researchers at ThreatMetrix observed that online financial services and lending companies were the most targeted by crooks in 2016. Online financial services, lending companies, and alternative payment systems are privileged targets of threat actors. According to the researchers at the security firm ThreatMetrix, the number of cyber attacks against online lending companies and alternative payment systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2017
In January, a cyber attack breached some systems at Barts NHS Trust and forced them offline. Hackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability. In January, a cyber attack breached some systems at Barts NHS Trust and forced them offline. Barts Health Trust runs the Royal London, St Bartholomewâs, Whipps Cross, Mile End and Newham hospitals. The hackers used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2017
Exclusive: MalwareMustDie for Security Affairs released the list of the sites under attack. A criminal gang is using SSH TCP direct forward attack technique. MalwareMustDie is back and has published his the first post of 2017. The popular malware researcher has uncovered a cyber crime gang that is harvesting credentials and credit card numbers from major websites […]
