Pierluigi Paganini
May 23, 2014
Security experts at Symantec have discovered a new phishing scheme based on Google Drive that is being used by hackers to steal Google Account credentials Phishing scammers are exploring new technique to conduct illicit activities, in the recent weeks we have already discussed on the efficiency to use Google Docs and Google Drive for phishing campaigns. Google Drive popularity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 22, 2014
A team of British researchers discovered a series of security flaw, Pre-Play Vulnerability, which allow Chip-and-PIN Payment Card Cloning. The recent incident to the US giant retailers Target and Neiman Marcus has raised the debate on the real level of security of credit/debit cards used by US citizens, in response VISA and Mastercard are accelerating the migration […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2014
The United States has filed criminal charges against five Chinese military PLA officials for cyber espionage and hacking against several US companies. The United States early this week charged five Chinese military PLA officers and accused them of hacking into computers of American companies. US authorities accused the China’s People’s Liberation Army officers of hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2014
Criminals are exploiting news tactics to steal user’s PIN from ATMs, capturing them over wireless network instead risky tampering of the banking machine. Cyber criminals are adopting even more creative and sophisticated methods to collect user’s personal information, of course banking data is very attractive for hackers that could decide to directly use it for cyber frauds, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 18, 2014
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
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