Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
A quick tour in the Black Markets, the places on the web where it is possible to acquire or rent âmaliciousâ services and illegal products. Black Markets are places on the web where it is possible to acquire or rent âmaliciousâ services and products, these markets are growing fast and are becoming very popular in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
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. Yemen Cyber Army will release 1M of records per week to stop Saudi Attacks The Importance of Operational Security and User Education CIA Chief: Ending NSA Spying Would Boost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2015
The silent war between black markets in the deep web, Mr Nice Guy hired a blackmailer to hit TheRealDeal and its competitors. TheRealDeal hacked back. Today I desire to tell you a story of ordinary war among operators behind principal black markets. A few weeks ago I have published a detailed analysis of a new black market […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2015
Fraudsters are spreading a Facebook UnfriendAlert app that notifies users whenever someone removes them from friend list, in reality it collects credentials Curiosity Killed the Cat, everybody wants to know who is visiting his profile on every social media platform. The new scam scheme is targeting Facebook users that want to control who visit their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2015
Eataly NYC confirmed that New York retail location has been victim of a security incident, hackers used a PoS malware to steal customers’s card data. The Italian food market Eataly has confirmed a data breach occurred earlier this year. According investigators the data breach could have exposed data related to payment cards over a four-month period. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
A new malicious phishing campaign is spreading CryptoWall ransomware in the wild, the expert Michael Fratello has analyzed it for us. Just a reminder to all — CryptoWall 3.0 is still very much active, with phish tactics that I think are less effective, but who knows; maybe they’re seeing great success with this method. Â Personally, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
US Government announced that a major data breach likely backed by Chinese hackers caused the exposure of data belonging to millions of government workers. Once again a data breach interested systems of the US government, the Obama administration on Thursday confirmed to have been the victim of a major cyber attack. According to the US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
Security experts involved in investigation on the attack against the Bundestag suspect that the hack was part of a large-scale espionage campaign backed by the Kremlin. Last month, the German Bundestag suffered a serious cyber attack by unknown hackers, in the days following the incident the German parliament officially confirmed media reports about a hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
A new Facebook scam in the wild that aim to steal sensitive data proposing a âFacebook Recoveryâ Accounts that share malicious links. It’s not new that Facebook itâs the perfect place to try to get precious information and financial gain since it aggregates many people, crossing all generations. The popular social network is very attractive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
Security experts at ClearSky have published a report on the a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir that is targeting entities in the Middle East. Security experts at ClearSky have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Thamar Reservoir due to the name of its target Thamar E. Gindin. The investigation led the experts to date the Thamar Reservoir […]
