Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
Malicious version of PuTTY is spreading in the wild

Bad actors have released a malicious version of the popular open source tool PuTTY to steal access credentials of computers worldwide. Be careful, there is an unofficial version of Putty in the wild and it seals information. This version was compiled from the legitimate source, but isn’t hosted on the official website project, instead, attackers redirect […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2015
CareFirst data breach affects about 1.1M people

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield fall victim of a major data breach, personal information belonging more than one million individuals could have been exposed. Health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is notifying more than one million individuals that it was the victim of a data breach which may have exposed personal information used by attackers to gain limited, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2015
Rombertik destroys the MBR to prevent unauthorized use of the malware

According to the experts at Symantec, the Rombertik malware attempts to destroy the MBR to prevent unauthorized use of the Trojan. Early this month, the experts at Cisco have published a report on the Rombertik, a high sophisticated strain of malware that wipes hard drive to prevent analysis. According to Symantec, Rombertik is a new […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2015
The Naikon APT, one of the most active APTs in Asia

Experts at Kaspersky Lab published an interesting report on the activities of the Naikon APT revealing details on their infrastructures and TTPs. Naikon  is one of the Asian largest APT gangs which has been active for several years, its operations targeted entities in various industries including governments and the military. The hacking crew targeted diplomats, law enforcement, and aviation […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2015
New Intel Security study shows that 97% of people can’t identify phishing emails

Intel Security published an a curious study to test consumer knowledge about phishing practice and measure the ability to detect phishing emails. For this study, Intel Security presented 10 emails where people were asked to identify which emails were phishing with the purpose of steal personal data, and which were legit, legal emails. The data for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2015
Expo 2015 – Anonymous has stolen 1TB data from Best Union ticketing service

The Anonymous collective continues the wave of cyber attacks against the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition, the last victim in order of time is the Best Union. Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
ISIS – Cyber Caliphate hackers are threatening Electronic War

Pro-Isis Hackers belonging to Cyber Caliphate hacking team threaten ‘Electronic War’ on US and Europe. Which are ISIS cyber capabilities? Is the Islamic State group able to engage a cyber war against Western countries? According to prominent hackers affiliated with the terrorist, the ISIS hackers have the abilities to hit computer systems in US and Europe. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 9 – 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. Hiring hackers, how much is it? US SOCOM and The Special Forces to Scrutinize Social media Skynet, the US top-secret program to track terrorists PHP hash comparison flaw is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
Chinese hackers hit Penn State University, 18K people impacted

The Penn State suffered a high sophisticated cyber attack that that seems to be originated from China and that exposed data belonging to 18K people. The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering confirmed that it has been targeted by two “highly sophisticated” cyber attacks over the last two years. “Today (May 15), University leadership announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2015
FBI: researcher hacked plane in-flight, causing it to “climb”

The computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that he obtained the control of at least one commercial flight causing it to “climb”. A new search warrant filed in a federal court in New York state published Friday by the Canadian website APTN revealed that the aviation computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that […]