Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2015
The Cleaver group is once again in the headlines managing a well-developed network of fake LinkedIn profiles for cyber espionage purpose. Do you remember the Iran-based APT Cleaver? In December the security firm Cylance released a detailed report on the hacking Operation Cleaver that was run by state-sponsored hackers linked to the Iran. The Iranian hackers targeted critical infrastructure worldwide, ten of which […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2015
The Cisco Talos Group has performed in-depth research on the threat actors behind the Angler Exploit Kit, and even had behind-the-scenes access. The Cisco Talos Group has performed in-depth research on the threat actors behind the Angler Exploit Kit, and even had behind-the-scenes access, allowing statistical information as well as Anglerâs inner-workings to be examined. Note that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2015
Experts at Kaspersky have discovered that Winnti Group has enhanced its attack platform infecting organizations in South Korea, UK and Russia. In 2013, security experts at Kaspersky Lab uncovered a cyber espionage that targeted the gaming industry with a malware signed with a valid digital certificate. The threat actor behind the campaign was dubbed the Winnti group, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
The nuclear industry is still unprepared to respond cyberattacks exposing civil nuclear facilities worldwide at risk of cyber attacks. Civil nuclear facilities worldwide are privileged targets for cyber attacks, according to a new report published this week by the Chatham House. The Stuxnet attack that targeted Iranian nuclear facilities demonstrated the risks for cyberattacks, for the first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2015
Researchers have discovered an advanced malware that can breach organizations by infecting their Outlook Web Application (OWA) mail server. According to the experts at the Cybereason security firm threat actors breached an unnamed organization network and maintained persistence for months via a webmail server. The victim was a midsize public services company based in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2015
Security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered a new strain of the Fareit Info stealer that uses a different File hash for each attack to avoid AV Detection Security experts at the Cisco Talos team have detected a new strain of the Fareit malware. Fareit is an info stealer that has been around since 2012, it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2015
The UNICRI published in September a new study about the security of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which are a very attractive target for crooks. UNICRI (United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute) published in September 2015 a new study about the IT security of Italian small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This research […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2015
Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign spreading a bogus PayPal app to steal German users’ banking credentials. A spam campaign is targeting German Andoird users, the malicious emails impersonate PayPal trying to trick the recipient into downloading a bogus PayPal app update that hides a banking Trojan. “Mobile banking is now used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
Online stock brokerage Scottrade has suffered a major data breach that exposed the personal information of 4.6 million customers. Data breach news are making the headlines, while I’m writing about the hack of the crowdfunding website Patreon and the hack of Experian, the news of a data breach suffered by the online stock brokerage Scottrade is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2015
The Crowdfunding website Patreon has been hacked and about 15 gigabytes of data including names, addresses and donations have been published online. The data have been available on different servers online locations, including this source. The Patreon website collects donations to artists for projects, according to the information provided by the chief executive Jack Conte, credit card […]
