Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2013
Russian underground is considered one of the most prolific black market, it provides various services that allow cybercriminals to arrange sophisticated scams and provide all necessary tools to arrange a cyber attack. To get an idea of the main dynamics of a market so organized I suggest you follow the investigations of principal security firms […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2013
WebSense has just released 2013 Threat Report, an interesting analysis of cyber threats based on data collected by the Websense ThreatSeeker Network. The study confirmed the growth of cyber threats able to elude traditional defense mechanisms and that mainly targeted mobile platforms and social media. Internet is confirmed as primary vector for cyber menaces, web threats […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2013
In recent weeks I wrote about an interesting article posted on Webroot by security expert Dancho Danchev, a careful observer of cyber criminal activities in the underground. The researcher described a new service offering access to thousands of malware-infected hosts, this time Danchev tried to estimate the cost to arrange a botnet composed of 10,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2013
Recent studies of principal security firms revealed that phishing activities in the last years have increased exponentially, cybercrime is targeting every sector from industry to government institutions and of course private citizens. RSA’s October Online Fraud Report 2012 confirmed a large increase in phishing attacks, up 19% over the second half of 2011. The total loss […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2013
Few days ago I was surfing on my favorite security web sites and I found an interesting post published by the great security expert Dancho Danchev on Webroot portal that released a profitable e-commerce of credentials related to compromised PayPal accounts. The security analyst found an underground web site that proposes Paypal account accesses categorizing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2013
When Apple revealed the hack to Reuters press agency I wrote that the last big enterprise not yet hacked was Microsoft, anticipating that was question of time. The last events have revealed how much vulnerable also major companies to cyber attacks, Facebook, Twitter and principal Press agencies such as NYT dedicate large investment to cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2013
Recently I published an article on the attacks against Japanese banks using a new variant of the popular Zeus, one of the most prolific malware of recent history, security experts in fact have detected various versions of the popular malicious code that hit also mobile and social networking platforms. Due its flexibility the malware has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2013
In this days it is circulating persistently the news that The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection act (CISPA) will be reintroduced by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and ranking member Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) before the US House next week. The controversial cyber bill raised an heated debate, the act will force any company to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2013
In this last months we have registered numerous clamorous attacks against intelligence agencies, government offices, media and social networking platforms. Twitter was last victim in order of time but the thought of security experts was focuses of Facebook, the biggest social networking with more than 1 billion members, a mine of information related to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2013
Internet is becoming a mine for criminals that in easy way are able to access to any kind of resources to arrange a cyber attacks, a cyber espionage campaign or a complex banking fraud. What is very scaring is the simplicity with which it is possible to acquire any kind of criminal services in the underground […]
