Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2015
Security experts at MalwareBytes discovered that unaware WordPress users are infected with a banking trojan served by a fake Pirate Bay website. Some WordPress websites are being used to redirect users to a fake Pirate Bay that is being used to make the reader to push malware, says Malwarebytes. WordPress websites were injected with the same iframe during the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
Symantec has discovered a cyber espionage campaign targeting energy companies around the world by infecting them with a new malware dubbed Laziok trojan. Security experts at Symantec have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that targeted the energy industry. The threat actors behind the campaign used uses a custom-developed malware dubbed Laziok trojan to exfiltrate sensitive data from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
President of ECIPS warns of cyber terror problems ahead at C I P R congress. Terrorism is evolving with cyber warfare capability. Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience meetings were attended by almost every agency in EU and US defense department. The Critical Border Cyber Defense Infrastructure of the EU Critical Infrastructure Protection & Resilience […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2015
Volatile Cedar APT group is a new hacking team, apparently from Lebanon, that compromised systems worldwide, most of those in Israel Security experts from Check Point Software Technologies have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign, dubbed Volatile Cedar, that targeted hundreds of entities from at least ten countries (Lebanon, Israel, Turkey, the UK, Japan, the US, etc.). The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2015
Find out more about online crime and understand why it can be so fruitful, unlike other forms of crime, in order to thoroughly protect your financial transactions and banking details. Unfortunately, nowadays due to the fact that we are used to going on vacation and hold a lot of money in our pockets, it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2015
Security experts at Symantec security firm have uncovered a persistent diet spam operation on Twitter that presents interesting aspects. In July 2014, experts at Symantec have uncovered a spam campaign offering the Green Coffee Bean Extract, a diet supplement, a few months later the experts discovered that the same operators behind campaign is continuing its activities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2015
Thomas Jiřikovský suspected of owning the black marketplace Sheep Marketplace, an alternative for Silk Road, was arrested while trying to buy a luxury house. The Operation Onymous and the seizure of the popular Silkroad black market have deeply influenced the underground ecosystem. The closure of Silkroad advantaged other black markets like Evolution and Sheep Marketplace. The Evolution […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
British Airways Executive Club member accounts were hacked, it isn’t a data breach but hackers used credentials available in the underground. The popular security expert Graham Cluley reported that Members of British Airways Executive Club are noticing suspicious activities for their accounts. The Members of British Airways Executive Club observed that their accounts were mysteriously emptied of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
Security experts have discovered al least two different vendors offering stolen Uber customer logins in a black market on the Dark Web. ArsTechnica has discovered that two vendors on a marketplace in the underground are offering active Uber credential. During the weekend the vendors “Courvoisier” “ThinkingForward” are claiming to sell valid Uber logins respectively for $1 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands of websites to exploit kits, a researcher has warned. Security experts at Germany’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-Bund) and Yonathan Klijnsma reveals that at least 3,000 websites have been compromised by attackers exploiting a known vulnerability in the […]
