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Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2015

Terracotta VPN, the Chinese VPN Service as Hacking Platform

A Chinese-language Virtual Private Network service provider dubbed Terracotta VPN offers a network of compromised servers as a stealth hacking platform. According RSA Security, a China-based virtual private network (VPN) service provider offers hacking crews a network of compromised servers which can be used to carry out stealth cyber attacks. The attacks appear to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015

The CTB-Locker Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance: Windows 10 Social Engineering

The CTB-Locker Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance, the security experts noticed that bad actors Leveraging the Release of Windows 10 as an Attack Vector. A false sense of hope that the presence, or rather the active spread, of crypto-ransomware in-the-wild has begun to slowly die out has been quickly diminished thanks to the group behind the CTB-Locker ransomware. While […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015

Interpol is training Police officers to fight crime on the Darknet

Police officers from dozen countries have just completed the first training program on Darknets, Tor hidden services and illegal marketplaces. Cybercrime becomes even more sophisticated and explores new technologies for its illegal activities. A growing problem for law enforcement agencies world worldwide is to track illegal activities in the Dark Web. Not only cyber criminals, but also groups […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015

BIND Flaws exploited in DNS server attacks

Recently we reported a new vulnerability affecting Bind, now experts at Sucuri confirmed that the flaw is being exploited in DNS server attacks. A few days ago we wrote about the BIND software flaws that were discovered, affecting important companies, and last week a patch was released for the denial-of-service flaw (CVE-2015-5477), which was affecting […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015

RIG Exploit Kit 3.0 infected over 1.3 Million PC worldwide

Version 3.0 of the RIG exploit kit has been released with new significant improvement. It has already infected more than 1.3 million PC worldwide. Early 2015, part of the source code for the 2.0 version of the RIG exploit kit was leaked online due to a dispute between the main developer and a reseller. According […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2015

Operation Potao – hackers used a trojanized version of TrueCrypt

ESET issued a report on a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Potao that relied on the diffusion of a trojanized Russian language version of TrueCrypt. Despite TrueCrypt development was mysteriously interrupted last year, the popular open-source encryption tool still represents the ideal choice for individuals that need to encrypt their data. Recently ESET published an interesting report […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2015

Security Affairs newsletter Round 20 – 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. HORNET, the High-Speed Tor-Like encrypted anonymous network Anonymous’s team GhostSec thwarts Isis terror plots Drone Firing Semi-Automatic Handgun, what’s next? Advertising hijacking made by Invisible rogue mobile apps are […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2015

Bitdefender Hacked, customer data being sold In the underground

Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. Hackers requested a $15,000 ransomware. Hackers are raising the bar, one of the most popular Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. The data breach highlighted serious security issues in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2015

A variant of the Angler Exploit Kit used to infect PoS Systems

Experts at Trend Micro discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting the popular Angler Exploit kit to find and infect PoS systems. The popular Angler Exploit kit is used by criminal crews to find and infect PoS systems, this is the last disconcerting discovery made by the experts at Trend Micro. The security researcher Anthony Joe […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 31, 2015

APT 29 use Twitter to control its Hammertoss data stealer

Experts at FireEye discovered a new APT group dubbed APT 29 that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. Experts at FireEye uncovered a group of alleged Russian hackers, dubbed APT 29, that is exploiting Twitter to mask the activities of their data-stealer malware. The hackers belonging to the APT 29 […]

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Terracotta VPN, the Chinese VPN Service as Hacking Platform

The CTB-Locker Ransomware is Back with a Vengeance: Windows 10 Social Engineering

Interpol is training Police officers to fight crime on the Darknet

BIND Flaws exploited in DNS server attacks

RIG Exploit Kit 3.0 infected over 1.3 Million PC worldwide

Operation Potao – hackers used a trojanized version of TrueCrypt

Security Affairs newsletter Round 20 – Best of the week from best sources

Bitdefender Hacked, customer data being sold In the underground

A variant of the Angler Exploit Kit used to infect PoS Systems

APT 29 use Twitter to control its Hammertoss data stealer

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