Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2015
Cyber criminals have hacked the popular online dating websites Adult FriendFinder leaking the highly sensitive sexual information on a forum in the dark web. The popular dating website Adult FriendFinder was hacked, it suffered a massive data breach that potentially exposed personal details of nearly 4 Million users. According to Channel 4 News, the information was offered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2015
Law enforcement warns thieves are using the mini-helicopters and commercial drones to carry out reconnaissance on homes to burgle. Security and privacy issued related to the use of drones must be carefully addressed in order to avoid dangerous effects due to their diffusion, there are several ways to abuse of such complex and powerful machines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2015
A security researcher has compiled the Ransomware Removal kit that could be used in the process of responding to ransomware infections. CryptoLocker, CoinVault, and TeslaCrypt are the names of some of the most dreaded ransomware that infected million of users worldwide. The extortion is a very common practice in the cyber criminal underground and ransomware are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2015
Bad actors have released a malicious version of the popular open source tool PuTTY to steal access credentials of computers worldwide. Be careful, there is an unofficial version of Putty in the wild and it seals information. This version was compiled from the legitimate source, but isnât hosted on the official website project, instead, attackers redirect […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 21, 2015
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield fall victim of a major data breach, personal information belonging more than one million individuals could have been exposed. Health insurer CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is notifying more than one million individuals that it was the victim of a data breach which may have exposed personal information used by attackers to gain limited, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2015
According to the experts at Symantec, the Rombertik malware attempts to destroy the MBR to prevent unauthorized use of the Trojan. Early this month, the experts at Cisco have published a report on the Rombertik, a high sophisticated strain of malware that wipes hard drive to prevent analysis. According to Symantec, Rombertik is a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2015
Experts at Kaspersky Lab published an interesting report on the activities of the Naikon APT revealing details on their infrastructures and TTPs. Naikon  is one of the Asian largest APT gangs which has been active for several years, its operations targeted entities in various industries including governments and the military. The hacking crew targeted diplomats, law enforcement, and aviation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
Intel Security published an a curious study to test consumer knowledge about phishing practice and measure the ability to detect phishing emails. For this study, Intel Security presented 10 emails where people were asked to identify which emails were phishing with the purpose of steal personal data, and which were legit, legal emails. The data for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2015
The Anonymous collective continues the wave of cyber attacks against the Expo 2015 Universal Exposition, the last victim in order of time is the Best Union. Anonymous Italy continues to target the Expo 2015Â Universal Exposition being hosted in Milan with a series of attacks under the Operation Italy (#OpItaly). The collective of hackers it targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2015
Pro-Isis Hackers belonging to Cyber Caliphate hacking team threaten âElectronic Warâ on US and Europe. Which are ISIS cyber capabilities? Is the Islamic State group able to engage a cyber war against Western countries? According to prominent hackers affiliated with the terrorist, the ISIS hackers have the abilities to hit computer systems in US and Europe. […]
