Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2015
A group of cyber criminals hacked systems the systems of the France Televisions and have stolen data on 100,000 contacts stored by the French state TV. Another cyber attack hit a French TV, this time the hackers compromised the computers at the network of the broadcaster stealing  personal data belonging 100,000 contacts. According to an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2015
The victims of CoinVault ransomware can now decrypt the files encrypted by the malicious code by using a free removal tool released by Kaspersky firm. There is good news for you, dear reader, if you are facing this problem with CoinVault Ransomware, Kaspersky just found the solution to end your problems. Now it’s possible to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2015
The elite cyber crime group Hellsing strikes back after attack by the rival APT crew known as Naikon. This is the first documented case of APT-on-APT attack. What happens when an APT group running a cyber espionage campaign target a second distinct APT group? The events occurred last year, when a group involved in a cyber espionage campaign […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 14, 2015
A group of Turkish hackers shut down the official website of the Vatican City to protest against Pope Francescoâ statements on the Armenian Genocide. Turkish hackers have taken down the Vatican City official website for revenge against the recent statements by Pope Francesco on the Armenian genocide. The hacking group named Herakles (@THTHerakles) announced that he will continue the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2015
Law enforcement dismantled the Simda botnet in an international joint effort that involved also most important private security firms. Another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide and private firms has dismantled the Simda botnet, investigators seized 14 Command and control servers, ten of which located in the Netherlands. Other C&C servers were located found […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2015
A group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Deep Web and discover how far does it get after a data breach. Early detection of a data breach is crucial to limit the data exposure, unfortunately sometimes they are necessary many months before a breach is detected by security experts. To […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Unknown hackers have gained access to the user personal accounts of the website of Lufthansa airline (LH.com) and used frequent-flyer miles. Unknown hackers have breached the system of the German flag carrier Lufthansa, the news was reported first by the German magazine Der Spiegel. The attackers accessed individual passenger accounts on the company’s website LH.com as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Experts at Trustev discovered on the Nucleus black market lifetime subscriptions to popular streaming services and fake NYPD badges. In the last months, we have assisted numerous operations run by law enforcement against illegal activities in the dark web, in particular against the numerous black markets that sell any kind of product and services. Everyone could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
The security Expert Michael Fratello provide us a closer look at the Dridex Trojan following its investigation on the malicious agent. The Dridex Banking Trojan is a part of a family of Trojans classified as “banking trojans“.  An article describing the Dridex Trojan and some of its inner-workings were published by TrendMicro in November of 2014. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2015
A TV5Monde staffer accidentally revealed a password used to access the social media account of the broadcaster in an interview. Following the successful attack against the network of the TV French Channel TV5Monde, law enforcement and French Intelligence started to investigate the attach chain. Investigators speculate that one of the possible way hackers obtained credentials for systems […]
