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Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2015

200,000 Comcast login credentials available on the Dark Web

During the weekend, nearly 590,000 Comcast email addresses and passwords were offered for sale on a BlackMarket in the dark web. It is now the turn of Comcast, over the weekend nearly 590,000 Comcast email addresses and passwords were offered for sale on a BlackMarket in the dark web. As proof of the authenticity of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2015

New insight on the Rocket Kitten Iranian hacking crew

Experts from Check Point firm published a new report on the Rocket Kitten APT that include more insight into the activities of the group. Do you remember the Rocket Kitten ATP? The Rocket Kitten group has been suspected to be active since 2011 and have been increasing their activity since 2014. The main targets are based in the Middle […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2015

Cryptowall 4.0 comes from Russia, Bitdefender released a vaccine

Security experts at Bitdefender speculate that the newborn Cryptowall 4.0 has a Russian origin. The company released a vaccine software. Security experts at Bitdefender seem to have no doubt, the authors of the last variant of the popular Cryptowall ransomware, Cryptowall 4.0 are Russians. The experts came to this conclusion through evidence collected during their investigations, for example, the servers used […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2015

British NCA revealed to have hacking abilities, aka equipment interference

Documents published by the UK Government reveal that the UK’s National Crime Agency has the hacking capabilities, so called equipment interference. We have debated for a long time about hacking capabilities of principal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Many documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the UK intelligence agency, the GCHQ has the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2015

Threat actors hacked the popular Touchnote company

On 4th November 2015, Touchnote company received information confirming that is has been the victim of a data breach that exposed customer data. Data breaches are becoming a daily event, the last one in the headlines it the hack suffered by the Touchnote postcard app. Hackers have stolen customer data from Touchnote database, the popular app that […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2015

Malvertising attack hit The Economist, anti-ad blocking service PageFair hacked

PageFair, the anti-ad blocking analytics service used by The Economist’s was hacked on Halloween and the attackers used it to serve malware. On Halloween, hackers have compromised the anti-ad blocking service PageFair used by The Economist exposing readers to malware infections. PageFair allows publishers to measure how many visitors block their ads, users who visited The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2015

Cracka hackers doxed more than 2,000 Government employees

Cracka hackers who took over the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have now doxed more than 2000 Government employees. The young hackers of the crew known as Crackas With Attitude (CWA) announced that they have doxed more than 2,000 Government employees. The hackers are the same that accessed into the AOL email account of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2015

Linux ransomware already infected at least tens of users

Researchers at Russian antivirus company Doctor Web have discovered a Linux ransomware that has already infected tens of users. Ransomware is a profitable instrument in the criminal ecosystem, security experts discover new variant on a weekly basis. This week the new variant of Cryptowall, the Cryptowall 4.0, appeared in the wild, meanwhile an offline ransomware is targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2015

Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria site used for phishing scam

According to Netcraft, the website of Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria is used to serve a webmail phishing site from the legitim site of the agency. The website of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria was used by cyber criminals in a phishing scam. According to the experts at Netcraft, the website of Financial Reporting Council of […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 06, 2015

ProtonMail paid a $6000 Ransom to stop DDoS Attacks

ProtonMail has paid a $6000 Ransom to stop prolonged DDoS attacks that knocked its services offline since Tuesday. Unfortunately, the attacks are continuing. The popular encrypted email service ProtonMail has suffered a prolonged major DDoS attack that knocked it offline since Tuesday. It was an extortion attempt, the attackers requested a ransom in order to stop the […]

Cyber Crime

200,000 Comcast login credentials available on the Dark Web

New insight on the Rocket Kitten Iranian hacking crew

Cryptowall 4.0 comes from Russia, Bitdefender released a vaccine

British NCA revealed to have hacking abilities, aka equipment interference

Threat actors hacked the popular Touchnote company

Malvertising attack hit The Economist, anti-ad blocking service PageFair hacked

Cracka hackers doxed more than 2,000 Government employees

Linux ransomware already infected at least tens of users

Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria site used for phishing scam

ProtonMail paid a $6000 Ransom to stop DDoS Attacks

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