Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2016
The American retail chain Vera Bradley announced that hackers have stolen a yet undetermined number of payment card data from its systems. The American retail chain Vera Bradley is the last victim of a data breach, the company announced that hackers have stolen a yet undetermined number of payment card data. The breaches affected customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2016
Cerber 4.0 is the latest variant of the Cerber ransomware family that is becoming even more common in the malvertising campaign in the wild. Another variant of the notorious Cerber ransomware, the Cerber 4.0, appeared in the wild delivered by several exploit kits, including RIG, Neutrino, and Magnitude EKs. According to the experts from Trend Micro, the Cerber 4.0 first appeared in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2016
The DXXD ransomware specifically targets servers and is able to encrypt files on network shares even if they haven’t been mapped. Malware continues to evolve, the last threat in order of time that implemented a singular feature is the DXXD ransomware. The peculiarities of this threat is that it encrypts also file on network shares, even […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2016
Microsoft October security bulletins patch tens of vulnerabilities, including four Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild. Microsoft has released its monthly Patch Tuesday update that includes a total of 10 security bulletins, five the flaws addressed by the updates are zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Internet Explorer, Edge, Windows and Office products. They could be exploited by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2016
A report published by the Australian Cyber Security Centre confirmed the Australian Bureau of Meteorology hack was powered by foreign cyber spies. In December 2015 the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) revealed that a supercomputer operated by Australialian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) was hit by a cyber attack. The Bureau of Meteorology is Australia’s national weather, climate, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2016
Cloudflare firm has published a report that analyzes two recent attacks that were powered by large IoT botnets based on the Mirai Threat. The IoT botnets represent one the most dangerous threats in the security landscape, recently we have assisted to cyber attacks powered by these infrastructures that reached magnitude never seen before. The recent DDoS attacks powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2016
Kaspersky published a report on cyber espionage activities conducted by StrongPity APT that most targeted Italians and Belgians with watering holes attacks. Experts from Kaspersky Lab have published a detailed report on the cyber espionage activities conducted by the StrongPity APT. The group is very sophisticated, its operations leverage on watering holes attacks and malware to target users […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2016
The TV5Monde director-general has told the BBC that his TV was almost destroyed by a targeted cyber attack conducted by the Russian APT28 group. On April 2015, the TV5Monde was hit by a severe cyber attack that compromised broadcasting of transmissions across its medium. The attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media accounts of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2016
The users of the free version of the popular Spotify online music service have been served malicious advertisements. Spotify users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign, the malicious advertising served to the victims could automatically open a web browser and redirect victims websites hosting malware. Spotify is a popular online music service that allows its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2016
As the Hurricane Matthew batters the South Carolina coast, authorities are warning of a series of cyber attacks against residents. Cyber criminals have no scruples and are ready to bring in any tragic event in their favor. In the past crooks exploited the media interest in tragic events like the Boston Marathon attack and the […]
