Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have issued data related to the number of RDP brute force attacks on its clients which show a worrying trend. In the June Kaspersky Lab has included in its products an Intrusion Detection System, which allowed the company to analyze  more information on going attacks on its clients. Kaspersky has issued the data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2014
ENISA and Europol have signed an agreement with the intent to facilitate the cooperation in the fight to the cyber criminal activities. The fight to the cybercrime needs a joint effort of governments, law enforcement agencies and private entities. Cyber threats are becoming even more sophisticated and bad actors behind them are structured in efficient organizations difficult […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2014
Experts at AdaptiveMobile discovered a rare Android SMS worm dubbed Selfmite which spreads itself by sending SMS including a malicious link to the contact list. Security researchers at AdaptiveMobile have discovered a rare Android malware dubbed Selfmite that propagates via SMS text messages, the worm in fact sends malicious links to 20 contacts present in the device owner’s address book. Selfmite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2014
Security Experts at Trend Micro have detected a new banking malware, dubbed EMOTET, which uses also network sniffing capabilities to target bank customers. The number of malware families designed to hit the banking industry is in constant growth, in this first part of the year the number of malicious code used by cyber criminals for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2014
Trend Micro analyzed a targeted attack against a Taiwanese government entity which used a variant of the PlugX RAT that abuses the Dropbox service. Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that a targeted attack against a government agency in Taiwan was conducted using a variant of the PlugX remote access tool (RAT) which abuses the popular file hosting service […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2014
Security experts at Lookout mobile security discovered a phishing campaign against an Israeli bank based which exploited a cloned mobile application. Cloned mobile applications are increasily used as an attack vector for by bad actors, malicious code could be used to steal information, as an essential part of an extortion scheme or for fraudulent activities such as dialing premium numbers. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2014
Security Experts at F-Secure discovered a cyber espionage campaign based in the Havex malware targeting ICS/SCADA systems and vendors. Security Experts at F-Secure have conducted an investigation on the Havex Malware family in the past months, let’s remember that the malicious agent has been used in several targeted attacks against different industry sectors, and according […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2014
Security experts at Kasperky Lab has uncovered the Luuuk banking fraud campaign which stolen half a million euros in a single week from a single bank. Experts at Kaspersky Labs discovered new banking Trojan dubbed Luuuk which hit the customers of a single European financial institution. In one week, Luuuk trojan targeted a single European bank, not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2014
Askmen.com, one of the most popular websites on the Internet (Top 1000 Alexa), is compromised to sever the banking trojan Caphaw. Security experts at Websense have discovered that cyber criminals have compromised the popular website AskMen.com and they used it to serve malware. The attackers deployed several exploits to compromise the visitors, and if successful, the victim […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2014
Largest DDoS attack hit PopVote, Hong Kong Democracy voting website.  Experts at CloudFlare observed a three hundred gigabits per second DDoS attack. The largest ever and most severe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in the history has recently hit the online democracy poll promoting opinion on the upcoming Hong Kong elections. The system under attack is […]
