Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2015
Signal amplification and brute-force attack for car thieves

A recent wave of car burglaries raises the debate on possible hacking techniques adopted by car thieves .. Signal amplification and brute-force attacks. A few months ago the journalist Nick Bilton wrote about his car being broken into in front of him. Bilton believes that his car was stolen by using snatched with the help of a signal […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 14 – 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. OPM hack: White House orders the adoption of best practices Researcher found Wind turbines and solar systems vulnerable worldwide OPM data offered for sale on the Dark Web Wikimedia […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2015
Password Recovery Scam – how to hack a Gmail account

Security experts at Symantec are warning about a new password recovery scam targeting Gmail users worldwide mainly for intelligence gathering. Every day scammers propose new techniques to steal personal information and other sensitive data. Today we will speak of a new social engineering technique used in the wild by crooks that allow them to hack into […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2015
Cyberspace under a shadow of Cyber Poisons and Antidotes

Period 2015 has become a continuous process of turbulent scenarios in cyberspace because new potential threats, by dealing new opportunities for cybercrime. Period 2015 has become a continuous process of turbulent scenarios in cyberspace because new potential threats, by dealing new opportunities for cybercrime with massive Cyber Poisons. Nevertheless, Antidotes are also part of a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2015
#OpC51 Anonymous hit systems at Canadian Government

Anonymous claimed responsibility for running DDoS attacks on Canadian government systems against the approval of anti-terror law C-51. An ongoing cyber attack is targeting systems of the Canadian Government, including Government websites and email systems. The cyber attack started a few days after members of the Canadian parliament were warned of an impending attack. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2015
Banking trojan used in a second round attack against Bundestag

Security researchers at the GData security firm discovered a second stage of the cyber attack on the German Bundestag that exploited a banking trojan to steal data. In the last weeks, I have reported the various news related to the cyber attack against the Bundestag and a possible involvement of Russian state-sponsored hackers. The media reported that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2015
Cyber attacks against VOIP systems on the rise

Security experts at Nettitude reported that VoIP (Voice over IP) infrastructures worldwide are targeted by a growing number of cyber attacks. A new wave of attacks against Voice over IP (VoIP) systems is targeting UK businesses, security experts believe that a surge was advantaged by the greater availability of hacking tools in the criminal underground. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2015
Application LastPass has been compromised

The cloud-based application, LastPass has been compromised but encrypted user vault data doesn’t look to have been accessed by hackers. The popular cloud-based password management service LasPass has been compromised, exposing user account email addresses, password reminders, server per use salts, and authenication hashes. It seems that encrypted user vault data haven’t been accessed. “We […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2015
Chancellor Merkel’s PC was the first one infected in the Bundestag hack

Experts say the cyber attack on the German Bundestag alleged began with the compromise of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s personal computer. I have written many posts regarding a recent attack against the German Bundestag with caused a major data breach. We discussed the possibility that the cyber attack against the German Parliament was coordinated by Russian state-sponsored hackers that spread a […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2015
$38 an hour is the cost of destructive DDos Attacks

DDOS attacks have become cheaper than one can think, just because of the era of DDOS-for-hire services. However, such attacks are easier to launch now and don’t cost much, but when it comes to the victim – it costs $40,000 per hour to them considering the loss. Incapsula revealed in its annual Report of DDoS […]