Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2016
Twitter investigated account login credentials recently offered for sale on the dark web, locked the accounts and reset their passwords. This week a Russian hacker offered for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials on the Dark Web. The alleged Russian hacker offered Twitter account credentials for 10 Bitcoins (over $5,800). In response to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2016
The Necurs Botnet, one of the world’s largest malicious architecture, used to spread the dreaded threats appears to have vanished since June 1. In the last months, we have read a lot of news regarding the activities on one of the largest botnet in the wild that was used by crooks to deliver the Dridex […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2016
Security experts from the SANS observed that new CryptXXX ransomware campaigns are leveraging on the Neutrino Exploit Kit instead the Angler Exploit Kit. Crooks behind the CryptXXX ransomware have launched a new campaign leveraging on the Neutrino Exploit Kit instead the Angler Exploit Kit. It was a significant change in the attack chain that was discovered by the experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2016
A hacker is offering for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials with plans to sell the account details on the Dark Web. Recent news of massive data breaches suffered by IT giants LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com shocked the security industry. Millions of login credentials are available for sale in the principal black markets, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2016
China is ready to launch its first hack proof quantum communication satellite, are we entering a new era of telecommunications. Satellites have a crucial role in our digital society, almost every industry is benefiting from their services for this reason their security is a pillar of the cyber security strategy of governments worldwide. Attackers are posing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
New research conducted by Citrix indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast in case of ransomware attacks. New research conducted by Citrix, a corporate networking company, indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast, if their data is held ransom by malicious software. Ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
The ÎŒTorrent team announced its community ÎŒTorrent forum has been hacked. Hundreds of thousand records belonging its users have been exposed. Are you a Torrent user? Are you one of the users of the popular ΌTorrent Forum? You might be in trouble because the ÎŒTorrent Forum was hacked. ÎŒTorrent is one of the most popular BitTorrent clients, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
The FTCâs chief technologist gets her mobile phone number hijacked, she shared her experience of a victim of such kind of Id Theft. The incident that I’m going to tell you is worrisome, the US Federal Trade Commission’s chief technologist Lorrie Cranor gets her phone number hijacked. The FTC’s chief technologist was hacked by someone posing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2016
The FBI has issued a warning that individuals should be on their guard against extortion email scam linked to recent high-profile data breaches. The FBI states that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has identified this new variety of extortion through the increased instance of reports to the Centre from individuals who have fallen victim […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2016
Security experts from FireEye have observed attacks leveraging on Angler EK to deliver exploits capable of evading the Microsoft EMET security Tool. Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is a free security tool designed by Microsoft to implement a supplemental security layer of defense against the exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting applications running on Windows Systems. […]
