Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2013
A reading of an interesting study on the criminal abuse of Facebookâs Paid âSponsor Adsâ system to deliver nefarious websites to the users. In the last weeks I presented on an interesting study of the techniques adopted by the cybercriminals organizations to abuse of the popular social network Facebook. The researchers Frank Angiolelli, Eric Feinberg, Ian Malloy issued a follow up […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2013
China hit by DDoS attack. The CINIC confirmed that the country suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours. During the weekend China’s Internet was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack, according to security experts behind the offensive there is a group of skilled hackers that on Sunday hit the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2013
The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous thanks the long series of arrests that hit principal cells of the collective such as LulzSec, Antisec and SABU. FBI in the last months has intensified the investigation on the Anonymous collective, various members of the popular group of hacktivist have been identified and arrested. Lulz Security (Lulzsec) team recognized its responsibility for the Sony Picture […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 25, 2013
Security vendor FireEye has published a detailed analysis on the popular Poison Ivy RAT, releasing also a set of tools to analyze infections. Security firm FireEye published an interesting analysis on the popular malware Poison Ivy, a remote access trojan (RAT) used in RSA SecurID attack. Poison IVY was also used in the 2011 Nitro […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2013
Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individuals and businesses, this appears to be the last trend observed for recent attacks against numerous US banks. The wire payment switch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2013
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled one of the numerous hacking services offered in the underground highlighting new trends in the cybercrime ecosystem. With the term attack-as-a-service model is indicated the practice to outsource all the phases of an attack to specialists instead to rent tools and architecture to conduct personally the illegal activities (Malware-as-a-Service). Danchev […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2013
Security experts at Kaspersky have detected numerous Android malicious applications that uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C. Android malware exploits the Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM) as Command and Control server. The Google service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON format to installed apps, but hackers exploited it for malicious purposes. The discovery has been made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2013
Bitcoin.org has released a security advisory related to a serious security flaw related to Android wallet apps that could allow money theft. Yesterday Iâve written on RAT for Android today we will speak of a weakness in some Android wallet apps for the popular mobile operating system that exposes Bitcoin users to risk of theft. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2013
AndroRAT is just one of the numerous open-source tools that was created and published on the undergroud forums to allow the hack of Android mobile devices. AndroRAT is an open-source tool that was created and published on the Internet in November 2012, it is a RAT (Remote Access Tool)  for Android OS and exactly as any other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2013
Cybercriminals are exploiting the possibility of DNS impairment to redirects visitors of thousands legitimate websites to compromised domains used to serve malware. DNS impairment or rather compromising DNS to distribute malicious code, cyber criminals are very attracted by the possibility to use DNS servers to redirect users that trying to visit a legitimate domain are hijacked […]
