Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2014
Kaspersky Lab suspects that the bad actor who is managing a new campaign dubbed CloudAtlas is the same that run the Operation Red October two years ago. Red October is the name of a cyber espionage campaign discovered by security experts at Kaspersky Lab in late 2012 and disclosed in January 2013. The threat actors behind the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2014
GOP released a new archive of Sony Pictures Entertainment confidential data including private information of employees, celebrity phone numbers, film scripts and many more. The Sony Pictures data breach is becoming a never ending history, the GOP is leaking company data and much more since the attack while security firms are providing the details of their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a strain of Destover Malware that has been digitally signed with the certificates stolen during Sony attack. Security experts have detected a new strain of the Destover malware that was used in the recent Sony Pictures Entertainment breaches characterized by a singular feature, the sample is signed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Lizard Squad claims to have hacked also Sony PlayStation Network that suffered a DDoS attack. A week ago the hacking team known as the Lizard Squad brought down the Xbox Live online service with a DDoS attack. Microsoft users were not able to access the online platform for several hours, the service has several problems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Trend Micro has analyzed the diffusion of Crypto-Ransomware in the EMEA Region, such attacks are very effective and Italy is in the Top infected countries. The holiday season is the period of the year in which cybercrime appears more active because it is advantaged by a fervid online activity of the Internet users. This is the period of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Xbox Live online service was not available for the second time in a few days due to a new DDoS attack by the Lizard Squad hacking team. Just a week ago the hacking team Lizard Squad has hit the Xbox Live service with a DDoS attack that caused its interruption. The Microsoft’s Xbox Live servers were not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2014
Security experts at AlienVault discovered further elements of the wiper malware used for the attack on Sony Pictures that link it to North Korean hackers. New evidence has emerged from the investigation on the clamorous cyber attack against the Sony Pictures, experts at Alien Vault provided further elements to link the attack to the North Korea. Last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2014
Hackers behind the major attack against the Sony Pictures Entertainment hit again the company by sending threatening emails to its employees. The massive cybar attack that compromised the corporate computer network at Sony Pictures Entertainment is having a serious impact on the organization and its employees. The GOP crew, aka the Guardians of Peace, that hacked Sony Picture accessed a huge […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2014
A non-public report realized by the US Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers exploits the anonymizing the Tor network. A report from the U.S. Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers by cyber criminals, affected organizations over the past decade, exploited the anonymizing Tor network. The news is shared by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2014
TrendLabs has analyzed the Destructive malware mentioned in the FBI warnings recently issued and they have linked it to cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Researchers at TrendLabs announced that they have identified the strain of malware that appears to have been used in the cyber attack against Sony Pictures systems by GOP (Guardians of Peace). The hackers […]
