Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2013
FireEye report on the evolution of sophisticated cyber threats and their diffusion on global scale FireEye security firm has published another interesting report, titled “FireEye report -The Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape”, that provides an overview of advanced cyber attack landscape, these events are a widespread global activity and during 2012. FireEye experts detected  12 million malware communications seeking instructions, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 25, 2013
Public offer of Zeus FaaS service on Facebook My readers know very well the dynamic of cybercrime enterprise and in particular of the growing interest in monetization malicious codes such as malware, ransomware and more in general botnets. One of the most targeted sector is banking, the evolution of banking services, their introduction on mobile platforms made attractive targets for cyber criminals, one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2013
Verizon has issued the â2013 Data Breach Investigations Reportâ that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Verizonâs RISK Team, in collaboration with other 18 partners, has issued the â2013 Data Breach Investigations Reportâ that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Since 2008 the company yearly publishes data related to principal incidents occurred during […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2013
In the last months of 2012 a group of hackers known as âIzz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fightersâ conducted a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions including the U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. Security experts noted that the hackers adopted an anomalous strategy for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2013
When the HTTP protocol was born in 1999, no one ever thought it will be used by one of the most dangerous Cyber threats called Botnet. A bot is an application that can perform and repeat a particular task faster than a human. When a large number of bots infect different targets (e.g. Computers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2013
Security firm Group-IB has detected a new variant of malware that targets the popular Russian stock-trading platform QUIK (Quik Broker, Quik Dealer) provided by Russian software developers ARQA Technologies. The malware has been used during various attacks staring in last November (2012) with the purpose to gather detailed information on the respective owners of the accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2013
We all remember the debated attacks of Anonymous collective against Israeli government that targeted various websites of the country last April 7th. The data on the cyber attacks reported by Israel government are really different from the one provided by the group of hacktivists in the damage report for #OpIsrael that account for a Total […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2013
To fight the cybercrime we must start thinking like criminals, they are people motivated solely by money and the need to monetize every operation. I wrote, like many other colleagues, various articles on phishing attacks and their potential effects, of course the success of this attack is based on the capacity of attackers to deceive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2013
Cyber espionage is considerable as  one of the most aggressive and dangerous cyber threats, its silent operation could steal sensitive information, company secrets and intellectual properties for a long time. Recently many cyber espionage campaigns have been discovered, last in order of time is the Winnti campaign but we cannot forted also Red October and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 15, 2013
As can be imagined and anticipated the soar of Bicoin value has attracted the interest of cybercrime, recently we read of malware authors and botmasters that trying to exploit new and old channels to steal virtual currency or mine it using computational resources of the victims. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab found variant of malware spread via […]
