Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015
China spies on airline passengers with IMSI-catchers

The popular expert John McAfee claims passengers with four Chinese airlines are spied with the IMSI-catchers technology by the Government of Beijing. The former owner of McAfee security firm, John McAfee was always known to have made some controversial comments in the IT industry, but also to have good sources that let him get precious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015
Targeted attacks on 4Chan and 8Chan exploited bot code in Imgur

Recently a serious vulnerability was discovered in the Imgur service that allowed the injection of malicious code into an image link on the popular website. Is your website popular? Great you are a privileged target for crooks, just yesterday I reported the last malvertising campaign that hit Forbes and today I decide to present a […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 23, 2015
Malvertising campaign targeted the Forbes Website, million users at risks

Security researchers at FireEye have uncovered a new malvertising campaign that exploited the popular Forbes.com news website. Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a new malvertising campaign that exploited the popular Forbes.com news website. The malvertising campaign was discovered earlier this month, according to the analysis published by FireEye, the attackers exploited the Forbes.com website […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
New updates on Cyber Conflict Agenda 2016 and what’s new in ‘Cyber power’

The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, what’s new? The 8th International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon 2016) will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from 31st of May to 3th of June next year, in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2015
New attacks on critical communications infrastructure in the US

Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California. Someone continues to target critical communications infrastructure in a region of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2015
D-Link firmware accidentally includes Code Signing Keys

The Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer D-Link has accidentally published its private code signing keys in the source of one of its firmware update. According to the Dutch news site Tweakers, the Taiwan-based networking equipment manufacturer D-Link accidently published its private code signing keys inside its open source firmware packages. One of the readers of the Dutch news […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 19, 2015
w0rm hackers hacked another hacking crew

The popular group of hackers dubbed w0rm breached the hacking forum “Monopoly” offering for sale all data present in its database. This is the classic example of the lack of rules within underground communities, today we will speak about a group of hackers who targeted another group and is offering their data for sale at $500. […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
Thousands of legitimate WordPress sites are serving malware

Sucuri has noticed a spike in the number of compromised websites as part of a malware campaign which relies on thousands of compromised WordPress sites. According to security experts at Sucuri, threat actors have hijacked thousands of websites running the WordPress CMS to serve malware. The technique is not new, legitimate compromised websites host malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
The Differences between Targeted Attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats

Although Advanced Persistent Threats and Targeted Attacks are often confused, in their core these are two different things in the field of online security. Most businesses out there need only worry about one of these two types of attacks, focusing their efforts to remain thoroughly protected against both enemies and threats. Many people get confused over […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 18, 2015
MWZLesson POS Trojan borrows code from other malware

Security experts at Doctor Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan dubbed MWZLesson that borrows code from other popular malicious software. Security experts at Dr. Web have discovered a new PoS Trojan that was designed by mixing code from other malware. The new PoS Trojan, dubbed Trojan.MWZLesson, was designed reusing the code of other popular malware, including the Dexter PoS […]