Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2014
Researchers at FireEye identified a new attack dubbed the Masque, which allows attackers to replace a genuine app with a malicious one. In these days Apple the community has discovered that is vulnerable to WireLurker, a new strain of malware that is able to infect Apple iPhone and iPad syphoning userâdata. The malware was discovered for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2014
State-sponsored hackers are suspected of breaching the systems of the United States Postal Service exposing the data of more than 800,000 employees. The U.S. Postal Service has suffered a major data breach that may have exposed the personal information of more than 800,000 employees, including data on customers who contacted Postal Service Customer Care Center […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2014
Kaspersky revealed that a crew of criminals dubbed Darkhotel targets executives traveling across Asia through hotel internet networks. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab uncovered the Darkhotel espionage campaign, which is ongoing for at least four years while targeting selected corporate executives traveling abroad. According to the experts, threat actors behind the Darkhotel campaign aim to steal sensitive data from executives while […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2014
A study published by Google demonstrates that manual phishing attacks are the simplest and most effective method for hacking email accounts. A study recently published by Google demonstrates that so-called manual phishing attacks are the simplest and most effective method for hijacking users’ email address. Let’s consider that the manual phishing attacks, as suggested by the name, doesn’t use […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2014
Security Experts at Palo Alto Networks have discovered a new variant of malware dubbed WireLurker that is infecting Apple mobile devices. A new strain of malware dubbed WireLurker  is threatening Apple users, the malicious code is able to infect Apple iPhone and iPad syphoning user’data. The malware was discovered for the first time by experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2014
Security experts at AppRiver firm uncovered Malicious Amazon phishing emails that aim to infect Holiday Shoppers in the U.S. and U.K. Researchers at AppRiver firm reported that cyber criminals are targeting holiday shoppers at Amazon UK with large a scale phishing campaign, which is spreading malicious emails. The emails sent by crooks include malicious Microsoft Word documents […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2014
Operation Onymous – Law enforcement and judicial agencies around the globe conducted a joint action against dark markets on Tor networks. This morning I have reported the news of the seizure for the underground black market Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its alleged manager, Defconâ Benthall. In reality, the shutdown of Silk Road 2.0 is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2014
Silk Road 2.0 shut down by the FBI that arrested Blake âDefconâ Benthall, alleged operator of the underground black market specialized in the sale of drugs. The FBI announced the arrest of Blake Benthall, also known as “Defcon,” the alleged owner and operator of black market Silk Road 2.0, Ars that is following the case […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2014
A two-year study conducted by researchers at Bitdefender analyzed more than 850000 Facebook scams identifying the most popular frauds. Experts at Bitdefender antivirus software provider have conducted a two-year study on the way crime exploit the popular social network Facebook, the analysis examines nearly 850,000 Facebook scams. The study on Facebook scams analyzed data from different […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2014
The attacks from humans against the humans as the preliminary phase of a bigger cyber attack will become harder to mitigate, let’s see how the cybercrime works. Standard incident response requires finding out the real extend of the incident. This is why we have all the monitoring tools where we can find any matching patterns. […]
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