Pierluigi Paganini
April 29, 2014
TrendMicro has published an excellent study on the evolution of the Russian underground, detailing products, services and related prices. Max Goncharov has published a new interesting study on the Russian Underground, titled Russian Underground Revisited, one year after the previous report “Russian Underground 101”. Trend Micro report continues its analysis of the services and products offered by cyber criminals in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2014
FireEye Research Labs has identified a new IE zero-day vulnerability exploited in a series of targeted attacks part of the Operation Clandestine Fox. FireEye Research Labs has identified a new Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day vulnerability exploited in a series of targeted attacks. The zero-day flaw affects a wide range of versions of the popular browser, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 26, 2014
A researcher discovered a flaw in the section “notes” of the social network Facebook that could be exploited by anyone to conduct a powerful DDoS attack. The Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13, discovered a vulnerability in the section ‘Notes’ of the popular social network Facebook that could be exploited by anyone to launch the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2014
A user raised an alert on Reddit, on the presence of a malicious Chrome browser extension, on the official store, that is able to steal digital coins. Security experts have recently observed a significant increase for the number of malicious browser extensions, malware authors are exploiting the usage of browser addons to conduct illicit activities. Today […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2014
Distil Networks security firm has published an interesting report on the Bad Bot Landscape, it is full of data on the evolution of malicious architecture. Surfing on the Internet I have found The Bad Bot Landscape Report Q1 2014 and interesting study issued by the Distil Networks security firm which provides an interesting analysis of botnet evolution detected by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2014
It has been officially announced the launch of the beta version of Grams Darknet Market Search Engine specialized for researches in the underground markets. All my readers know my involvement in the researches conducted on Tor Network, and more in general on the Deep Web. Recently, many events have shocked the Tor community, the revelation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2014
Reflession on the necessity to adopt a shared regulatory for the security of critical infrastructure. Eugene Kaspersky point of view on the topic. Security of critical infrastructure is a critical urgency of any government, the NIST announced the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Security, a document that proposed cybersecurity standards and practices to build out a security program. The cybersecurity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2014
Security experts at Mandiant uncovered attackers exploiting the Heartbleed vulnerability to circumvent Multi-factor Authentication on VPNs. We have practically read everything about HeartBleed bug which affects OpenSSL library, we have seen the effects on servers, on mobile devices and also on Tor anonymity, now lets focus on the possibility to exploit it to hijack VPN […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2014
Unflod Baby Panda is the name of a new mobile malware which is targeting jailbroken versions of Apple iPhone. The threat seems to have China origin. The number of cyber threats against mobile users is in constant increase, on the other hand bad habits like the practice of jailbreak/root the devices and the lack of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2014
After Target and Neiman Marcus, also US retailer Michaels Stores confirms card data breach occurred early this year, the second one in the company hystory. Early this year was spread the news that Michaels Stores Inc, the biggest U.S. arts and crafts retailer, was the victim of a severe data breach. Michaels Stores Inc. retailer was […]
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