Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
The hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Holdings announced Tuesday that cyber criminals stole credit card information from some of its point-of-sale systems. The hotel chain Hilton Worldwide Holdings admitted that crooks stole credit card information from some of its PoS systems, but hasn’t provided detailed info on the extent of the data breach. The company Hilton Worldwide is warning its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
Pearson VUE, the world biggest learning, testing and certification company has announced that its Credential Manager system (PMC) has been breached. On their website, Pearson VUE gives us some details of what might have happened, even though they donât share who is the responsible for this breach. “We recently were made aware that an unauthorized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2015
A new RAT dubbed GlassRAT was discovered by RSA, it targets mainly Chinese citizens working in multinational companies in and outside China. According to the experts at RSA a remote access Trojan (RAT) dubbed GlassRAT managed to avoid detection by most antivirus software for several years. The researchers explained that GlassRAT was used by threat actors in highly targeted attacks, the threat […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 24, 2015
ModPOS is new POS malware discovered in systems of US retailers after the rush of Thanksgiving and experts speculate it is the most complex POS malware ever seen. A new POS malware was discovered in US retailers, after the rush of Thanksgiving, and it looks like millions of US bank cards were affected. The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
“Want to keep using the pacemaker? “” pay us 2 bitcoins” Experts fear that ransomware will start targeting medical devices. Technology has a huge role in our lives, we depend on it even more, including our smartwatch and also our medical device. Unfortunately, we usually forgot that even our medical devices, the ones they help […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2015
According to Kaspersky Lab, bad actors in the Russian underground have stolen more than $790 Million over 3 years, from 2012 to 2015. According to the experts at Kaspersky Lab, Russian criminal rings have stole roughly $790 Million over 3 years (from 2012 to 2015), more than $500 million of that is from victims located outside the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2015
The hacking group that behind the Dark Seoul Operation that hit entities in South Korea in 2013 may be back with new targets. According to the experts at Palo Alto Networks, the hacking group behind the attacks that targeted banks, financial institutions, government websites and news agencies in South Korea is still active. The attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2015
The developers of the Dyre banking Trojan have released a new version of the malware that includes support for Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. The security firms Heimdal Security and F5 Networks have uncovered a new version of the Dyre (Dyreza) banking Trojan that includes support for Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge. The new variant of Dyre now also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2015
Telegram messaging service announced its actions against the abuses made by members of the ISIS, but it still allows communications in private groups. In the wake of recent Paris attacks the experts increased their investigation on the communication channels used by members of the ISIS organization. A few hours after the Paris attacks, investigators speculated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2015
The experts at Malwarebytes have noticed that threat actors in the wild are reusing the Blackhole Exploit Kit despite its limited effectiveness. The Blackhole exploit kit has reappeared in the wild surprising the security industry after that in October 2013 its author, know as Paunch, was arrested. Paunch was the author of two of the most popular exploit […]
