Pierluigi Paganini
February 03, 2015
UNICRI published a study on the impact of the cybercrime on the economy in the Europen region with a specific focus on the effect suffered by enterprises. The UNICRI has recently published a study titled “Cybercrime and the risks for the economy and enterprises at the European Union and Italian level” that analyzed the impact of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2015
A third critical zero-day vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows, Linux and Mac. It is the third time in a few weeks that the security of Adobe users is menaced by a zero-day in Flash that affects Windows, Linux and OS X systems. The company is already working to provide a patch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2015
A report issued by FireEye revealed that hackers have stolen GigaBytes of data from Syrian opposition’s computers, including battlefield plans. A recent report issued by FireEye revealed that hackers tapped into Syrian opposition’s computers and have stolen gigabytes of secret communications and battlefield plans. In mid-2013, ten armed units belonging to the opposition to the Syrian Government were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2015
The Pirate Bay is online again, but many shadows obfuscate its rebirth. Angry staff members promise to open the full site back on a separate domain. The torrent-indexing website Pirate Bay has risen again after almost two months of total outage. The Pirate Bay it the most popular file-sharing website used to share copyrighted material free of charge, last year it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2015
IC3 and FBI warn about a significant increase of cases related to Business Email Compromise, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam. According to an online statement from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the FBI, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam that was extended to 45 countries and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2015
Researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a strain of the Zeus malware that includes a very sophisticated control panel and evasion techniques. Malware researchers at SentinelOne have spotted a new Zeus variant that was used to target major Canadian banks, including the National Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank of Canada. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team observed the ZeroAccess botnet resumes again with click-fraud activity. Law enforcement has destroyed the ZeroAccess botnet, also known as Sirefef, in December 2013 by a joint effort of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners. The ZeroAccess botnet is considered one of most insidious malicious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2015
The CYBERPOL announced a series of training programs that aim to educate both law-enforcement and cyber security officers (CSO). CYBERPOL announced today that it has refined CYBERPOL’s focus arena and will be focusing on three main areas of cyber analytical research namely, Cyber Crime, Cyber threats and Cyber Intelligence CYBINT. The collective goal is to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2015
The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” This ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report (ETL 2014) was prepared […]
