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Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2014

Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit by foreign hackers

Nuclear Regulatory Commission systems were hacked three times in the last three years. According to investigators the bad actors are foreign hackers. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has been hit by cyber attacks three times during the past three years, bad actors behind the offensives have conducted spear phishing attacks to compromise the internal network […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 20, 2014

New malware based attacks hit opponents in Syria and all over the world

Security Experts at Kaspersky Global Research & Analysis Team have discovered several malware based attacks targeting opponents of the Regime in Syria. Malware is the most diffused cyber threat used by governments to track opponents and foreign governments, in the past security experts have already detected malicious codes targeting individuals oppose to the regime of Bashar al […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 19, 2014

Kaspersky revealed that Stuxnet Exploits is still used worldwide

Experts at Kaspersky discovered that Stuxnet exploits targeting a Windows Shell Vulnerability is still largely used in cyber attacks. Stuxnet has changed the history of malware development, it is considered the fist cyber weapon used by a government in an act of Information Warfare. As remarked by most popular security experts, the militarization of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2014

Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU confirmed data breach

US Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU have confirmed a data breach that could impact customers who acquired product in national stores. The Grocery giants Albertsons and SUPERVALU posted on Thursday a data breach notification related to an Incident Involving Payment Card Data Processing. Albertsons is the second largest grocery store chain in the US, meanwhile SUPERVALU is […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2014

Replica of the Tor website used to serve malware

A security researcher discovered the Torbundlebrowser.org,web site that is a replica of Tor Project site, but it is used to serve a malware. The increasing popularity of Tor network is attracting cyber criminals, recently the French security researcher Florent Daigniere discovered a website (torbundlebrowser.org) that is the replica of the original Tor Network but a […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014

Bad Actors rebuild from scratch the Gameover Zeus Botnet

Experts at Arbor networks discovered a new variant of GameOver Zeus Botnet which implement DGA scheme. Recently law enforcement agencies have taken down the GameOver Zeus botnet with a multinational effort, but a few weeks later, researchers at Seculert spotted a new variant in the wild, which implements a domain generation algorithm.Investigators from FBI and Europol […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2014

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

RedSocks Malware Research Labs issued the Malware Trend Report Q2 2014, which contains data evolution of principal cyber threats observed in the second quarter of the year. The Dutch company specializing in Malware detection RedSocks Research Lab. Has published the second quarterly trend report for 2014. The experts have analyzed large numbers of malicious files […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2014

AdThief malware infected jailbroken Apple devices

Malware expert Axelle Apvrille explained how the iOS AdThief malware infected more than 75000 jailbroken iOS devices hijacking millions advertisements. More than 75,000 jailbroken iPhones have been infected by a Chinese malware which were used by cyber criminals to hijack nearly 22 million advertisements and steal revenue from developers on the iOS jailbreak community. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2014

Espionage campaign hit embassies of former Soviet states

Security experts at Symantec detected a large-scale cyber espionage campaign which hit personnel at embassies of former Soviet states. Security researchers at Symantec discovered a large-scale cyber attack which is targeting embassies of former soviet states worldwide. The experts detected a huge cyber attack that has been carried out across more than 15 countries, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2014

CVE-2014-0546 vulnerability is being exploited in limited attacks

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a vulnerability in Adobe solutions coded as CVE-2014-0546 which has been already exploited in limited attacks. Kaspersky Lab was the first team of experts to report the CVE-2014-0546 vulnerability in Adobe solutions, the Adobe firm has issued a security bulletin to describe the security update provided by the company to […]

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission hit by foreign hackers

New malware based attacks hit opponents in Syria and all over the world

Kaspersky revealed that Stuxnet Exploits is still used worldwide

Grocery giants ALBERTSONS and SUPERVALU confirmed data breach

Replica of the Tor website used to serve malware

Bad Actors rebuild from scratch the Gameover Zeus Botnet

Reading the Malware Trend Report, Q2 2014 issued by RedSocks

AdThief malware infected jailbroken Apple devices

Espionage campaign hit embassies of former Soviet states

CVE-2014-0546 vulnerability is being exploited in limited attacks

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