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Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015

ZeroAccess botnet ‘reloaded’ again with click-fraud activity

The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team observed the ZeroAccess botnet resumes again with click-fraud activity. Law enforcement has destroyed the ZeroAccess botnet, also known as Sirefef, in December 2013 by a joint effort of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners. The ZeroAccess botnet is considered one of most insidious malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015

Spam campaign relies on macros embedded in empty Word documents

Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015

Cyberpol education is the key solution to fighting any global cyber crime

The CYBERPOL announced a series of training programs that aim to educate both law-enforcement and cyber security officers (CSO). CYBERPOL announced today that it has refined CYBERPOL’s focus arena and will be focusing on three main areas of cyber analytical research namely, Cyber Crime, Cyber threats and Cyber Intelligence CYBINT. The collective goal is to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015

Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” This ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report (ETL 2014) was prepared […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015

Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015

Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking

Gary Miliefsky explain how Spear Phishing works as well as Email Tracking that allow the sender to collect very useful data on the recipient. Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking In my 2015:Year of the RAT Threat Report (see: http://www.snoopwall.com/reports/), I described how I felt Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) was attacked by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015

Topface data breach – 20 Million records exposed

Topface, the Russian-based dating site, has been hacked, User names and e-mail addresses of 20 million visitors are offered for sale online. Nearly 20 Million User names and e-mail addresses of visitors to the Russian-based dating website Topface have been available for sale online, the news first reported by Bloomberg. According to Daniel Ingevaldson, chief technology […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015

Alleged Lizard Squad members hacked Malaysia Airlines. Are They linked to the IS?

The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by hackers that claimed to be from the Lizard Squad, but who referenced the IS and the cyber Cyber Caliphate. The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by alleged members of the popular collective “Lizard Squad”, the curious thing is that hackers also referenced Islamic State jihadists. Malaysia Airlines released […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015

Davos – experts warned about major cyberattacks

Davos World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2015 – The elite of experts confirms the rising technological risks, notably cyber attacks. The World Economic Forum in Davos brings together some 2,500 of the top players in the sphere of politics, finance and business. The elite of experts meeting in Davos for the World Economic Forum Annual […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2015

Click-fraud malware drives millions of views to YouTube videos

Scammers are earning advertising revenue by spreading click-fraud malware Tubrosa, which sends compromised computers to their YouTube videos. A new Click-fraud malware campaign aimed at earning money by using the victim’s machine to view YouTube videos and benefits from ads embedded in them. The malicious campaign, discovered by experts at Symantec, has targeted users around the world […]

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ZeroAccess botnet ‘reloaded’ again with click-fraud activity

Spam campaign relies on macros embedded in empty Word documents

Cyberpol education is the key solution to fighting any global cyber crime

Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report

Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking

Topface data breach – 20 Million records exposed

Alleged Lizard Squad members hacked Malaysia Airlines. Are They linked to the IS?

Davos – experts warned about major cyberattacks

Click-fraud malware drives millions of views to YouTube videos

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