Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2016
Security firm Sucuri published a detailed study, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, on compromised websites on the Internet. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year. Sucuri has published a report, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, related compromised websites on the web. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
The hosting company OVH was the victim of a 1 Tbps DDoS attack that hit its servers, this is the largest one ever seen on the Internet. The hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack last week, likely the largest offensive ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
The Police in the Australian State of Victoria issued a warning to the local population of malware-laden USB drives left in letterboxes. USB drives are a privileged vector of attack, security experts have demonstrated that it is possible to hide malicious code in memory stick that could compromise almost every computer. We are aware that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2016
In what could be another serious celebrity hack, 3,000 photos have been stolen from Pippa Middleton âs account and they are being offered for sale. The UK Police is investigating the Pippa Middleton iCloud hack and consequent theft of private photos. According to The Sun newspaper the stolen photos were offered for sale, it seems that someone had […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2016
Kaspersky Lab presented an investigation on the future of ATM Biometric Skimmers and how cybercriminals could exploit them. A recent investigation by Kaspersky Labs reports that a number of underground sellers are offering skimmers, which have the capability of stealing users biometric data such as fingerprints. A number of others are researching iris scanning and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
The announcement about the Yahoo data breach is online, the company confirmed that hackers managed to access data from at least 500 million user accounts. Today I wrote about the imminent announce of the Yahoo data breach related to an incident that resulted in the leakage of 200 million Yahoo account credentials this summer. The company has finally […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
It’s a question of hours, security experts believe Yahoo will confirm the massive data breach that exposed at least 200 Million Yahoo accounts. Yahoo is ready to confirm a massive data breach that affected its service that has exposed several hundred million user accounts. “Yahoo is poised to confirm a massive data breach of its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
InfoArmor has discovered the RAUM tool in criminal forums, it is a special tool to distribute malware by packaging it with popular torrent files. It is not a novelty, torrent files are a privileged channel for malware diffusion, according to a study conducted by researchers at Digital Citizens Alliance and RiskIQ, almost one-third of the 800 torrent sites […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2016
The new variant of the popular iSpy keylogger (version 3.x) was available in the criminal underground with sophisticated features. Security researchers at Zscaler warn of a new sophisticated commercial keylogger dubbed iSpy. The malware is a perfect surveillance tool, it was developed to capture victim’s keystroke and screenshots, access webcam, steal user data and license keys […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2016
Microsoft recently issued the patches to fix set of flaws in Internet Explorer, years after their discovery by black-hats in the hacking underground. Microsoft finally fixed a set of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer years after they were discovered by black-hats in the hacking underground. I have contacted a black hat in the underground that who made […]
