Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2015
GitHub Again Hit by a new DDoS attack

GitHubhit by another major DDoS attack to because Chinese developers have been forced by police to remove projects of tools to circumvent “Great Firewall.” The software collaboration site GitHub was hit by another DDoS on Tuesday morning that made the website unavailable to many users for several hours. The GitHub platform already suffered a major DDoS attack in March, in that […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Be aware enterprises, it’s time to block Tor network

A research conducted by the IBM X-Force team reveals that a growing number of cyber attacks against big IT enterprises relies on the Tor network. With the increase of Tor-based attacks, something needs to change, and IBM is advising companies to start blocking Tor. A research conducted by the IBM X-Force team reveals that SQL […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
Sphinx, a new variant of Zeus available for sale in the underground

A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2015
SysAdmin admin tool AutoIt used in targeted attacks to serve malware

Security experts at Cisco have uncovered a targeted attack leveraging on AutoIt to serve a RAT and other malware by evading detection. Security experts at Cisco uncovered a targeted hacking campaign that leveraged AutoIt to spread RAT and other malware via Word documents. The RATs were used to compromise computer of a small number of organizations. “AutoIt […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2015
The relentless ascent of DDoS attacks

The report Q2 2015 State of the Internet published by Akamai states that there has been a multiplying growth in the quantity of DDoS assaults year over year There has been a multiplying growth in the quantity of DDoS assaults year over year, as per Akamai. Keeping in mind assailants’ planer preferred less capable yet […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 25, 2015
Ashley Madison offers a $500,000 reward for the culprits

Nearly 37 million users of Ashley Madison have been impacted, the company that owns the adultery website is offering a $500,000 reward to arrest the hackers. Avid Life Media, the company that owns the Ashley Madison is offering a $500,000 reward for information that could allow law enforcement to identify and arrest the hackers behind […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 24, 2015
Thousands Britons’s hard drives easy to hack with Shodan info

Thousands Britons have been exposed in massive new data hack, their personal and financial data are easy to access online with a simple query on Shodan. Thousands of Britons are exposed to cyber crime after the content of their PC was exposed on the Internet by Shodan, a website dubbed the “Google for hackers.” The leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 23, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 23 – 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. Dark marketplaces raked from $300,000 to $500,000 a day How to hack a Parrot drone on the fly How BitTorrent could let lone DDoS attackers bring down big sites […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2015
Thousands of WordPress sites host Neutrino Exploit Kit

Experts from security company Zscaler have uncovered a malware campaign which relies on thousands of hijacked WordPress sites hosting the Neutrino Exploit Kit. According to the experts at the Zscaler security firm, cybercriminals have compromised more than 2,600 WordPress websites over the past month and deployed malicious iframes on 4,200 distinct pages. The criminals exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2015
Blue Termite APT group focuses on Japanese organizations

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have analyzed the cyber attacks run by the Blue Termite APT, a hacking crew group focused on Japanese organizations. According to the experts at Kaspersky security firm, an ATP group dubbed Blue Termite has been active since at least November 2013 focusing its attacks on Japanese organizations. The Blue Termite APT […]