Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2014
Security researchers at Symantec have spotted a series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks during the Christmas Holidays. DDoS attacks are very simple methods of offence that could cause serious problems to targeted systems, behind the word DDoS there are numerous techniques that could be exploited by attackers to reach their goals. Last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2014
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The âFind Friendsâ exploit and the âBulk […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2013
Two German researchers at the last Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg revealed how cyber thieves steal money from ATMs win infected USB Sticks. Cyber criminals are exploiting new techniques to attack ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) infecting the devices with specifically crafted malware. Security researchers discovered a new series of attacks against ATMs, the criminals cut […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2013
CDM (CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE) PRESENTS: CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 EDITION The December edition of the free Cyber Defense Magazine is out. Don’t miss it.  SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 Read each FLIPBOOK edition electronically, online and flip through the page: CYBER WARNINGS E-MAGAZINE: DECEMBER 2013 CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE: ANNUAL EDITION FOR 2013 Download a color PDF […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 31, 2013
The Russian hacker known as “HASH” and “Rev0lver” took control of a BBC server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals. A hacker compromised a server at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and started a Christmas Day campaign to sell the access to the machine to other cyber criminals. The evidences of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2013
Security experts at Arbor Networks have found a couple of servers used to arrange a malicious campaign against PoS with Dexter malware. At the end of 2012, Israel based company Seculert  notified about Dexter malware, used for parsing memory dumps of specific POS software related processes, looking for Track 1 / Track 2 credit card data. Dexter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2013
How cyber criminals could exploit typosquatting? The case of MtGox proposed by MalwareBytes, a fake domain used to serve malicious codes. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a common form of hacking which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when typing the website address into the address bar of their browser. Should a user […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2013
The hackers behind Target data breach are selling stolen card data including localization info. Why? In numerous posts I have highlighted the possibility to acquire stolen card data on the black market, different website on the underground and within the Deep Web proposed the precious commodities at varying prices depending on several factors like, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2013
A group of hackers has threatened Israeli banks to disclose stolen data belonging 3.7 million customers unless the organizations pay up. The Israel Hayom news revealed that at least three Israeli banks report extortion attempt by hacker demanding payoff in Bitcoin, the criminal threatens the financial institutions to reveal sensitive information of banking customers. The cyber […]
