Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2017
The Necurs botnet is evolving and recently the experts at BitSight’s 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 BitSight’s […]
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2017
A few days ago experts at antivirus firm ESET spotted a new MacOS ransomware, a rarity in the threat landscape, but it has a serious problem. Malware experts from antivirus vendor ESET have discovered a new file-encrypting ransomware, dubbed OSX/Filecoder.E, targeting MacOS that is being distributed through bittorrent websites.“Early last week, we have seen a new ransomware campaign for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2017
Researchers at ESET are monitoring the activity of a cybercrime group tracked as RTM that focuses its criminal operations on Remote Banking Systems. Experts at software firm ESET are monitoring the activity of a cybercrime group tracked as RTM that using a sophisticated malware written in Delphi language to target Remote Banking Systems (RBS). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2017
At the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the experts at Google Research explained that Corporate email addresses are privileged targets for hackers. At the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the experts at the Google Research team at the Google Research team have shared the results of an interesting study on cyber attacks against emails accounts. Corporate […]
