Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2014
Security researchers at AIRBUS have uncovered a new APT, named Pitty Tiger, involved in a cyber espionage campaign which targeted mainly private companies. Security experts at AIRBUS Defence & Space – CyberSecurity unit have recently disclosed the results of their investigation on a new APT dubbed Pitty Tiger involved in a cyber espionage campaign which targeted mainly private companies. Also in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2014
Experts from Cyphort Labs have discovered an extensive data theft campaign named Nighthunter that has been active since 2009 stealing victim’s credentials. Security experts at Cyphort firm have recently uncovered a five-year-old attack campaign dubbed NightHunter arranged to steal user credentials for Dropbox, Facebook, and other web services. The malicious campaign is cross sector, every industry […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2014
Experts from Malcovery Security have discovered that the Gameover Zeus botnet is reborn, a new improved version has emerged from the underground. A few weeks ago we have praised a multinational effort for the takeover of the Gameover Zeus botnet, one of the most long-lived and dangerous malicious infrastructure composed by a number of compromised computers ranging from 500,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 11, 2014
Security Experts at Danish CSIS Security Group have discovered that source code of Tinba banking trojan was published on an underground forum. The source code for Tinba banking trojan, aka Tinybanker, has been leaked in the cybercrime ecosystem, the malware is recognized as the smallest banking malicious code in the wild and it is available on an underground forum. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2014
Analysis of the compliance measures to be put in place in order to face data protection issues affecting the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is expected to lead to 50 billion connected devices by 2020 collecting and exchanging personal data about their users, their lives, their preferences and tastes. This will lead not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2014
Facebook in a joint operation with the Greek Cyber Crime Division dismantled the Lecpetex botnet, which infected 250,000 Computers in different countries. Facebook has announced to have successfully conducted the takeover of the Lecpetex botnet in Greece. The bad actors operating in Greece were using the popular social media platform for illicit activities, including data stealing, malware distribution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2014
Google Security experts have detected and blocked unauthorized digital certificates for a number of its domains issued by the NIC of India. Google announced to have blocked unauthorized digital certificates for different of its domains issued by the National Informatics Centre of India, which holds several intermediate CA certificates trusted by the Indian Controller of Certifying Authorities (India CCA). […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2014
Cisco’s Threat Research Analysis and Communications (TRAC) uncovered an extremely targeted spear phish attack on high-profit companies in Europe. A new APT has been discovered by CISCO targeting high-profit companies in Europe, including businesses working in banking, oil and entertainment industries. The attackers adopted as attack vector the email in a spear phishing campaign. According to the alert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2014
The APWG Report on Phishing Activity Trends analyzes phishing attacks observed by its member companies and reported to the APWG group. According to the APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report for the first quarter of 2014, the phishing activities have increased in the first months of the year. According to the APWG report, the number of malicious websites used for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2014
RSA Security has discovered a large-scale malware campaign, which hijacked Boleto payments causing an amount of financial losses for 3,75 USD billion losses. Security experts at RSA Security have recently discovered a large-scale malware campaign that’s been operating at least for two years, the malicious code implements the man-in-the-browser technique to exploit vulnerabilities in popular browsers, including Chrome, Firefox […]
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