Pierluigi Paganini
September 24, 2014
Ongoing cyber espionage campaign based on BlackEnergy malware hit targets in Poland, Ukraine and Belgium. Experts at ESET and F-Secure firms analyzed it. BlackEnergy malware is still in the wild representing a serious threat, a new âLite’ version of the malware has been detected by experts at ESET security firm. BlackEnergy is a popular DDoS Trojan, gained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 23, 2014
Security experts at Sophos have detected a surge in cyber attacks based on VBA malware, such threats are still very insidious but often underestimated. Experts at SophosLabs observed a surge in VBA malware, according their analysis macro-based malware accounted for 28 percent of all malware attack detected in July, up from just six percent in June, despite […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 22, 2014
Malwarebytes firm discovered a large scale malvertising exploiting Google’s DoubleClick and popular Zedo advertising agency to deliver malicious ad. Experts at Malwarebytes security firm discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting a number of popular websites to serve malicious advertisements designed to spread the Zemot malware. Online advertising networks are once again a target of cyber criminals, according to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2014
Another cache of nude photos and videos of celebrities was disclosed online, investigators believe that this wave is linked to the first Fappening archive. During the last weeks media have focused their attention on the celebrity iCloud hacking case, hundreds of naked pictures are available online raising the interest to the level of security offered by cloud […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2014
Home Depot announced that data related to 56 million cards were stolen by cyber criminals. Home Depot, the US largest home improvement retailer, confirms breach impacted 56 million customers. On Thursday the company Home Depot released an update on the evolution of the investigation of the data breach suffered by the company. Home Depot data breach is larger than the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Experts at IBM Trusteer security firms have discovered a massively distributed Citadel trojan targets Middle Eastern Petrochemical companies. Researchers at IBM Trusteer have recently discovered targeted cyber attacks using a variant of the popular Citadel trojan on several Middle Eastern petrochemical companies. The Citadel Trojan is a malware designed to steal personal information, including banking and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 15, 2014
Security experts at Dr.Web spotted a new strain of Android ransomware which sets unlock password on compromised devices and is also able to send SMS. Ransomware is one of most prolific cyber threats to criminal ecosystem and according to security firms cyber gangs are increasing use the malicious code improving its capabilities with new features. Recently, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2014
Extremists groups of ISIS and Al Qaeda are ramping up efforts to launch major cyber attacks on Western Critical Infrastructure to set up digital Caliphate. In time I’m writing the ISIS has released a new video purporting to show the beheading of British hostage David Haines, the group has started again to flood the social media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2014
CERT warns that DNS Cache Poisoning attacks could be used also to hijack email to a rogue server and not only to divert the Internet traffic. DNS attacks are very popular in hacking community, they could be run by cyber criminals and state-sponsored hackers for various purposes, including cyber espionage and financially motivated attacks. A DNS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2014
A Brazilian newspaper’s website has been hacked to serve a malware that tries to change the victimâs router DNS settings brute forcing the admin panel. A Brazilian political newspaperâs website has been compromised with malware that tries to change the victimâs router DNS settings. The security firm Securi has published a blog post on a […]
