Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini July 14, 2015
Hacking Team, the third Flash Zero-Day is out: CVE-2015-5123

Following the Hacking Team data breach, the security researchers discovered the third Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. A third Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been discovered since the HackingTeam breach. Thanks to the breach of the Hacking Team‘s private files, the third Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible. “After two Adobe Flash player zero-days disclosed […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Cloudminr Mining Service hacked, DB available online for 1 Bitcoin

According to TheHackerNews the Cloudminr.io Bitcoin Mining Service has been hacked, its database is available online for 1 Bitcoin. Colleagues at The Hacker News just reported that Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and the scaring news is that the entire database is available online for sale for 1 Bitcoin. The hackers have compromised the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
1 Million Android Users were infected by Gaming Apps

Researchers discovered a malicious Android Trojan disguised as gaming app that was served through the official Google Play more than 1 Million times. We already explained that Google Play Store was abused several times to serve malicious applications, a practice that is very common and everyday new bogus apps are proposed on the official store […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Hacking Team supported Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack

Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed how the Italian firm supported the Italian Special Operations Group with BGP Routing Hijack. We are following day by day the evolution of the recent Hacking Team hack, the hackers posted online 400 GB of source code, company emails and documents, a treasure for hackers, cyber spies and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Europol and Spanish police dismantled a very active cyber gang

A joint effort of the Europol with the Spanish Police allowed to dismantle a very active cyber criminal gang operating in Barcellona. The Europol has supported the Spanish Police (Grupo de fraudes en el uso de las telecomunicaciones de la Brigada Central de Seguridad Informatica-U.I.T Madrid) to dismantle cyber criminal group, the joint operation is […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Hacking Team by Numbers – The Infographic

The infographic that resumes the most interesting numbers published by principal media agencies on the Hacking Team data breach. Sources: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacking-team-in-numbers https://news.vice.com/article/mexico-is-hacking-teams-biggest-paying-client-by-far [adrotate banner=”9″] Pierluigi Paganini (Security Affairs – Hacking Team, Infographic)

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Hacking Team Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122

Following the Hacking Team data breach, yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122 Yet another Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been found actively exploited in-the-wild. Thanks to the breach of the HackingTeam’s private files, another Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible and hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
A new Zero-Day Vulnerability arises from Hacking Team hack

Security Researchers at Trend Micro have discovered a second Zero-Day Vulnerability that arises from Hacking Team cyber attack. Just Three days ago, Adobe released a new version of Flash to patch the zero-day vulnerability that was disclosed as part of the Hacking Team hack. Security experts at Trend Micro confirmed that the Adobe Flash vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 12, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 17 – 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. Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30 Million records Cisco Unified CDM platform open to cyber attacks Argentine finds messenger to shoot after e-vote vuln allegations […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2015
Three UK politicians hacked while using open WiFi networks

A team of experts hacked three UK politicians while they were using unsecured WiFi networks to demonstrate the risks they are daily exposed. Public Wi-Fi networks are dangerous places for our digital identity, we have explained several times the risks related to the connections to open WiFi hotspots. Security  experts have explained these risks to […]