Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
SysAdmin admin tool AutoIt used in targeted attacks to serve malware

Security experts at Cisco have uncovered a targeted attack leveraging on AutoIt to serve a RAT and other malware by evading detection. Security experts at Cisco uncovered a targeted hacking campaign that leveraged AutoIt to spread RAT and other malware via Word documents. The RATs were used to compromise computer of a small number of organizations. “AutoIt […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2015
The relentless ascent of DDoS attacks

The report Q2 2015 State of the Internet published by Akamai states that there has been a multiplying growth in the quantity of DDoS assaults year over year There has been a multiplying growth in the quantity of DDoS assaults year over year, as per Akamai. Keeping in mind assailants’ planer preferred less capable yet […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2015
Ashley Madison offers a $500,000 reward for the culprits

Nearly 37 million users of Ashley Madison have been impacted, the company that owns the adultery website is offering a $500,000 reward to arrest the hackers. Avid Life Media, the company that owns the Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward for information that could allow law enforcement to identify and arrest the hackers behind […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2015
Thousands Britons’s hard drives easy to hack with Shodan info

Thousands Britons have been exposed in massive new data hack, their personal and financial data are easy to access online with a simple query on Shodan. Thousands of Britons are exposed to cyber crime after the content of their PC was exposed on the Internet by Shodan, a website dubbed the “Google for hackers.” The leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 23 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2015
Thousands of WordPress sites host Neutrino Exploit Kit

Experts from security company Zscaler have uncovered a malware campaign which relies on thousands of hijacked WordPress sites hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit. According to the experts at the Zscaler security firm, cybercriminals have compromised more than 2,600 WordPress websites over the past month and deployed malicious iframes on 4,200 distinct pages. The criminals exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2015
Blue Termite APT group focuses on Japanese organizations

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed the cyber attacks run by the Blue Termite APT, a hacking crew group focused on Japanese organizations. According to the experts at Kaspersky security firm, an ATP group dubbed Blue Termite has been active since at least November 2013 focusing its attacks on Japanese organizations. The Blue Termite APT […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2015
Web.com hacked, at least 93,000 credit card data exposed

The US-based web hosting company Web.com has been Hacked, it admitted that credit card information of 93,000 customers have been compromised. Web.com is the last victim of a data breach, the US-based web hosting company has up to 3.3 Million customers. According the first news circulating in the Internet the hackers may have compromised personal information and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers released a second dump of Ashley Madison data

The hackers behind that data breach of the Ashley Madison website, who call themselves “Impact Team,” have released another dump of 20 GB. A few hours ago, Joseph Cox, contributor at MotherBoard confirmed that the hackers behind the Ashley Madison data breach released a new dump of website database. In the last days, 10GB of data apparently […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2015
Hackers have leaked Ashley Madison dump online

The hacking crew who breached the online adultery website Ashley Madison has leaked online a dump of the company’s websites containing user data. In July, the popular online cheating site Ashley Madison has been hacked and a big amount of data was stolen by hackers who posted part of this information online as proof of […]