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Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2015

ISIS hackers violated top secret British Government emails

According to an investigation by the GCHQ intelligence agency ISIS hackers targeted information held by some of David Cameron’s most senior ministers. According the experts at the British Intelligence GCHQ, ISIS hackers intercept top secret British Government emails. The investigation conducted by the GCHQ allowed the British intelligence to uncover a serious breach, terrorists linked […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015

Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS attacks on its customers. According the Akamai firm, the criminal crews known as DD4BC has carried out at least 114 DDoS attacks with an average peak bandwidth of around 13.34 Gbps on its customers since April […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2015

Another computer system at the Pentagon has been hacked

Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2015

Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab published a report on the Turla APT revealing the use Satellite links to control its botnet. According to a new analysis published by the experts at Kaspersky Lab reported that the popular Turla APT group exploited poorly secured satellite infrastructure to hide command-and-control operations. Turla APT was active in the last decade, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2015

Musical Chairs: Multi-Year Campaign relying on the Gh0st RAT

Security experts at Paloalto Networks have uncovered a multiyear espionage campaign dubbed Musical Chairs Involving New Variant of Gh0st RAT Malware. The Gh0st RAT malware is a popular remote administration tool (RAT) created in China in the early 2000s that was used in a number of cyber espionage operations. Targeted espionage operations on Tibetan activists, including the Operation Night Dragon and the GhostNet attacks, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015

Adult Player, pornography-focused ransomware takes secret photos of victims

Security firm Zscaler spotted Adult Player, a new malicious pornography-focused ransomware that takes secret photos of victims to blackmail. Security firm Zscaler spotted a new malicious Android app used in a classic extortion scheme to request a ransom to the victims. The malicious app dubbed Adult Player appeared offers pornographic content to its users, but in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2015

Hundreds million legit websites could serve Ransomware because of Script Injection compromise

Heimdal Security published an interesting post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve ransomware. Heimdal Security recently published an interesting blog post on the increase in malicious scripts that are being injected into legit websites in order to serve malware. The attackers compromise websites running […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2015

Chinese law enforcement arrested 15,000 for cybercrime under the op “Cleaning the Internet”

The Government of Beijing has arrested nearly 15,000 people involved in cybercrime as part of the operation “Cleaning the Internet.” The Chinese authorities have arrested nearly 15,000 people involved in criminal activities online as part of the operation against the cybercrime is dubbed “Cleaning the Internet.” The Chinese Government accused the suspect to have “jeopardized Internet security.” According […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2015

Ashley Madison Users victims of extortion and phishing

Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2015

DoJ defines new rules for spying with the Stingray technology

The US Justice Department issued guidelines for StingRay Surveillance devices, new rules define aim to ensure privacy protection and transparency. Do you know what is a StingRay? If you want further details give a look to a post I wrote for the Infosec Institute on the StingRay Technology: “StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber […]

Cyber Crime

ISIS hackers violated top secret British Government emails

Cyber criminal crew DD4BC extorts businesses via DDoS

Another computer system at the Pentagon has been hacked

Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Musical Chairs: Multi-Year Campaign relying on the Gh0st RAT

Adult Player, pornography-focused ransomware takes secret photos of victims

Hundreds million legit websites could serve Ransomware because of Script Injection compromise

Chinese law enforcement arrested 15,000 for cybercrime under the op “Cleaning the Internet”

Ashley Madison Users victims of extortion and phishing

DoJ defines new rules for spying with the Stingray technology

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