Pierluigi Paganini
April 13, 2015
Law enforcement dismantled the Simda botnet in an international joint effort that involved also most important private security firms. Another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide and private firms has dismantled the Simda botnet, investigators seized 14 Command and control servers, ten of which located in the Netherlands. Other C&C servers were located found […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2015
A group of experts at Bitglass used watermarks to track data through the Deep Web and discover how far does it get after a data breach. Early detection of a data breach is crucial to limit the data exposure, unfortunately sometimes they are necessary many months before a breach is detected by security experts. To […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Unknown hackers have gained access to the user personal accounts of the website of Lufthansa airline (LH.com) and used frequent-flyer miles. Unknown hackers have breached the system of the German flag carrier Lufthansa, the news was reported first by the German magazine Der Spiegel. The attackers accessed individual passenger accounts on the company’s website LH.com as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Experts at Trustev discovered on the Nucleus black market lifetime subscriptions to popular streaming services and fake NYPD badges. In the last months, we have assisted numerous operations run by law enforcement against illegal activities in the dark web, in particular against the numerous black markets that sell any kind of product and services. Everyone could […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
The security Expert Michael Fratello provide us a closer look at the Dridex Trojan following its investigation on the malicious agent. The Dridex Banking Trojan is a part of a family of Trojans classified as “banking trojans“. An article describing the Dridex Trojan and some of its inner-workings were published by TrendMicro in November of 2014. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2015
A TV5Monde staffer accidentally revealed a password used to access the social media account of the broadcaster in an interview. Following the successful attack against the network of the TV French Channel TV5Monde, law enforcement and French Intelligence started to investigate the attach chain. Investigators speculate that one of the possible way hackers obtained credentials for systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 10, 2015
ESET has discovered a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap based on a family of spyware targeting vulnerabilities within the Russian Windows System. Late in 2014 analysts at ESET uncovered CVE-2012-0158, a buffer overflow vulnerability in the ListView / TreeView ActiveX controls in the MSCOMCTL.OCX library. This particular malicious code can be activated by a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2015
The Beebone botnet has been shut down in a joint operation between U.S. and European law enforcement and a number of private security companies. A new joint operation run by US and European law enforcement and a number of private security firms took down the polymorphic Beebone botnet, also known as AAEH. The operation was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2015
Members of the ISIS Cyber Caliphate hacking crew attacked French TV network TV5Monde on Wednesday evening disrupting the broadcast of its TV channels. The French TV Channel TV5Monde was targeted by a serious cyber attack on Wednesday that compromised broadcasting of transmissions across its medium.the attackers also hijacked the Channel TV5Monde website and social media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2015
The FBI is warning that individuals sympathetic to the ISIS are running mass-hacking websites exploiting known vulnerabilities in WordPress. The FBI is warning administrators of WordPress websites about the possibility of cyber attacks carried out by sympathizers of the ISIS terrorist group. Unfortunately, it is quite simple to compromise websites based on the popular content management system (CMS) that […]
