Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2017
Trolling, Doxing & Cyberstalking: Cybercrime & The Law. Cybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing US with implications for national security. According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), âcybercrime is one of the greatest threats facing our country and has enormous implications for our national security, economic prosperity, and public safety. The range of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2017
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published the Phishing Trends Report for Q4 2016. APWG reported 1.2 million phishing attacks in 2016. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) published the Phishing Trends Report for Q4 2016. The data are worrisome, 2016 ended as the worst year for phishing in history. The experts reported the total number of phishing attacks in 2016 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2017
Malware author are using Dridex v4 in the wild, an improved version of the Trojan that includes a new injection method known as AtomBombing. According to researchers with IBM X-Force, vxers have improved the Dridex banking Trojan adding a new injection method for evading detection, the technique is known as AtomBombing. The researchers have spotted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2017
The Necurs botnet is evolving and recently the experts at BitSightâs Anubis Labs discovered that it was improved to launch DDoS attacks. The Necurs botnet continues to evolve and recently it was used by crooks not only to spread the dreaded Locky ransomware but he was improved to launch DDoS attacks. According to the researchers BitSightâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2017
EHR data are precious commodities in the cyber criminal underground because of the lack of cyber security of healthcare industry. Electronic health record databases are becoming the most precious commodities in the cyber criminal underground. The healthcare sector has been the industry with the highest number of data breaches in 2015 when a total of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2017
In December 2016 two Russian state security officers and a cyber security expert in Moscow were charged with treason due allegations made 7 years ago. In December 2016 two Russian state security officers and a cyber-security expert in Moscow were charged with treason due to the allegations made by a Russian businessman seven years ago. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2017
The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a security breach that may affect people who purchased tours and other services on its website. Did you visit the Hawaii in last year? The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a data breach that may affect people who purchased tours from July […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2017
A wave of ransom attacks is threatening thousands of MySQL databases that are exposed online, the hackers are brute forcing poorly secured MySQL servers. Databases exposed online with a poor security continues to be a privileged target of hackers. Early this year, experts warned of a spike in the number of attacks against MongoDB systems, crooks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2017
The carder forum CVV2Finder claims to have more than 150 million logins from several popular services, including Netflix and Uber. The carder forum CVV2Finder claims to have more than 150 million logins, from several popular services, including Netflix and Uber. The operators in the forum are offering the precious commodity to the VIP members. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2017
The prosecutor’s office in Cologne and the Federal Criminal Police Office have arrested the alleged mastermind of the MIRAI attack on Deutsche Telekom The agents at the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) have a man that is suspected to be involved with the massive attack on Deutsche Telekom that affected more than 900k routers in […]
