Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2014
New private Exploit-Kit “Infinity” available on the underground

Security Experts at Intercrawler have discovered in the underground a new Exploit-Kit dubbed “Infinity” which might be a new replacement of “Blackhole” Security expert at IntelCrawler, a cyber threat intelligence firm based in Los Angeles, discovered a new private exploit-kit called “Infinity” in the underground. It isn’t a distribution on a large-scale, authors reserved it […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2014
Al-Qaeda is developing new Encryption tools in response to NSA surveillance

Recorded Future published a report to show that members of Al-Qaeda are developing a series of new encryption software in response to NSA surveillance. The revelation based on the document leaked by Edward Snowden on the NSA surveillance programs have had also a serious impact on the methods of terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda. The information revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2014
ECIPS INVITED TO HOLD DISCUSSIONS WITH INTERPOL

The ECIPS recently held discussions with INTERPOL in aim to assist the development of a global legal framework for Cyber Policing The European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) recently held discussions with INTERPOL in aim to assist the development of a global legal framework for Cyber Policing. Some of the talks focused on the lack of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2014
DDoS Protection Services hacked to arrange powerful DNS DDoS attack

Security Experts at Incapsula have recently detected a powerful DNS DDoS attack organized by attackers abusing DDoS Protection Services servers. Experts at Incapsula have detected early this month a powerful DNS DDoS attack that was launched from high-capacity servers, but the alarming news is that the attackers have abused resources of two separate DDoS protection service […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2014
A new phishing scheme is being used to steal Google Account credentials

Security experts at Bitdefender discovered a new ingenious phishing scheme that is being used by hackers to steal Google Account credentials. Security experts at Bitdefender have discovered a news phishing scheme adopted by hackers to steal Google Account passwords. The new phishing attack is hard to catch with traditional heuristic detection, it mainly affects Google Chrome and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2014
Ajax Security Team lead Iran-based hacking groups

FireEye published a report titled “Operation Saffron Rose” to document the activities of the Iranian hacking group named Ajax Security Team According to a recent report titled “Operation Saffron Rose” published by cybersecurity company FireEye, a group called the Ajax Security Team is the principal Iranian hacking group, it is responsible for different espionage campaigns on custom-built malicious software. “This group, which […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2014
Hackers have stolen files on Ukraine crisis from Belgian Foreign Ministry

Unknown hackers have stolen files on the Ukraine crisis from the Belgian Foreign Ministry, causing the crackdown of targeted servers. A new cyber espionage campaign hit the Belgian foreign ministry, unknown hackers have stolen data related to the Ukraine crisis last week. The cyber attack has caused the crackdown of targeted servers which has left diplomats without […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 09, 2014
Alleged members of hacking Team Digi7al arrested for violating government networks

Alleged members of the hacking Team Digi7al were arrested by NCIS and charged for Hacking more than 30 government and private sites. The US attorney’s Office in Tulsa charged two men for involvement in anti government conspiracy, they are accused to have violated the computer systems of dozens of government and commercial organizations, including the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2014
Orange hacked for the second time in the year, 1,3M records exposed

French telecom giant Orange has suffered the second data breach of the year on April 18th. Hackers violated its website stealing 1,3 customer records. Orange company was hit again by hackers, client database was breached by unknown attackers which have stolen the personal information on 1.3 million customers. According first news on the incident the hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2014
Shiqiang APT cyber espionage using RAT signed with stolen certificates

Security experts at McAfee Labs have discovered a new cyber espionage based on the malware digitally signed with stolel certificates. A recent research of McAfee Labs has identified a series of spear phishing attacks against non governmental entities and activists, the offensives which interested mainly organizations in China were conducted using malicious code signed with stolen digital […]