Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2014
Security Experts at Sophos explained the efficiency of the business model known as Cybercrime-as-a-Service in the specific case of Vawtrak botnet. The term Cybercrime-as-a-Service refers to the practice in the cybercriminal ecosystem to provide product and services for use by other criminals. In September 2014, a report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the 2014 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2014
Security experts involved in the investigation on the JPMorgan breach revealed that hackers exploited the lack of 2FA to compromise a server in the network. JPMorgan suffered months the biggest U.S. banking breach of all time, and now The New York Times provided more information on the case citing sources close to the experts involved in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2014
Security researchers discovered a criminal crew called Anunak that has already stolen $17 million from banks, retailers and others firms since 2013. Security companies Group-IB and Fox-IT have conducted a joint investigation on a cyber espionage group called called Anunak, which has been targeting banks and payment systems in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States countries, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
The annual IT security report issued by the German BSI reported that a sophisticated cyber attack on a steel factory caused severe damage. A cyber attack could cause serious damage to a production plant or a facility, we discussed several times this attack scenario that represents a nightmare for security experts and Intelligence agencies. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
A new strain of Zeus Trojan dubbed Chthonic has been discovered in the wild targeting more than 150 banks and 20 payment systems mainly in Europe. Experts believe they have seen everything about the Zeus trojan, P2P versions, versions that infect SaaS, agents that exploit the Tor network or that recruit money mules … then […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
An announcement by the FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, but Pyongyang refused accusations and offered support for the investigation. The cyber attack against Sony Pictures is monopolizing the attention of the media, in particular, the problem of the attribution is hard to solve. The FBI released the findings of its investigation that definitively […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
Experts at Dell Secure Works Counter Threat Unit (CTU) published a new report on the evolution of the hacking underground marketplaces. The monitoring of black hat markets is one the principal activities of security experts and intelligence agencies, it allows information gathering on evolution of cyber threats and emerging trends in the criminal ecosystem. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2014
The ICANN organization confirmed that several its systems were compromised via Spear Phishing attack. The company is investigating the case. ICANN revealed the details of a recent spear phishing attack that allowed unknowns to access its network. The attackers spoofed the ICANN domain, and deceived internal staff into revealing their email credentials. The ICANN is the organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2014
Members of the Anonymous collective have hacked several Swedish government email accounts over seizure of The Pirate Bay servers. Many cyber security experts consider hacktivists as a threat that is swarming, but it’s my opinion it is a serious error to underestimate their capabilities and the Stratfor case is probably the most blatant demonstration of their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2014
Operation Tornado is the first time that FBI deployed a tracking code broadly against every visitor to a website, instead of targeting a particular user. The Wired portal has published a detailed post to describe how the FBI used a collection of freely available exploits and hacking tool to de-anonymize users in the Tor network. Wired revealed […]
