Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2015
The Chinese Government is suspected for the large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that hit the popular GitHub website. The popular coding website Github suffered a large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that lasted more than 24 hours starting from Thursday night. The attack exploited the redirection of users who were connecting to many other websites on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2015
According to Trend Micro, crooks in Asia are conducting the sextortion practice to the next level, including the used of mobile malware to get huge profits. Trend Micro released a new report to bring to light a criminal activity known as sextortion. “Sextortion is a means of coercing cybercrime victims to perform sexual favors or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2015
Security experts at Proofpoint have discovered a new phishing campaign that exploits a Dridex variant that evades detection with AutoClose function. Criminal crews behind the Dridex banking malware are very prolific and are improving the popular malicious code. Recently we have discussed about a Dridex variant which was spread through phishing messages with Microsoft Office documents embedding malicious macros. The attackers exploited social engineering technique to lure […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2015
Cisco Security Team has spotted in the wild a new Point-of-Sale malware dubbed PoSeidon that is more sophisticated than previously detected PoS malware. Expert at Cisco have discovered a new Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed PoSeidon. The experts have discovered many similarities with the popular Zeus Trojan and use sophisticated methods to find card data respect other POS malware like BlackPoS, which was used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2015
Security experts at Trend micro uncovered a new hacking campaign dubbed Operation Woolen Goldfish likely run by a threat actor group known as Rocket Kitten. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign that is targeting a number of European organisations and businesses. The attackers run a spear phishing campaign that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
The Evolution Black Market, the most popular an online black marketplace appears to have vanished, it seems that admins of the website exit scamming. The security community is paying attention to the evolution of dark markets following the operation Onymous conducted by law enforcement in November. Law enforcement in a joint effort against cybercrime seized dozens of black […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
US health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced its network had been hacked, potentially exposing data from 11 million individuals. A few weeks after the disclosure of the data breach suffered by from Anthem Blue Cross, which exposed 80 million customer records, another US health insurer was victim of a major attack that is affecting 11 Million customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
Hacker who posted online information on Nuclear Plants in South Korea demands money for not selling other sensitive information to other governments. The Government of Seoul has issued a report blaming North Korea for cyber attacks against computers at Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP), a subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2015
A research conducted by experts at Symantec highlights disturbing security failures in the IoT devices present in today connected home. The purpose of IoT is connect all type of devices that we have at home, let’s say I am at my work and I want to arrive at home and have my air conditioner at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
71 percent of organizations were victims of successfully cyber attacks in 2014 according to the “2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report” report. The CyberEdge Group published an interesting report, titled “2015 Cyberthreat Defense Report” that in line with similar studies confirms the increase in the number of successful cyber attacks against organizations. The report analyzed data provided by 814 organizations, it […]
