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Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2014
How to rob ATMs with a couple of SMS messages

Symantec experts demonstrated how to rob ATMs using a mobile device and sending a couple of SMS. Cybercriminals are increasing sophistication of attacks. What will happen after that Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system on 8th April? The question was approached by numerous security experts on different media. The impact could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 24, 2014
Cisco on large-scale attacks against unpatched or not updated servers

Cisco observed 400 hosts were infected on daily base and more than 2,700 URLs have been used in a multistage attack against websites running older OS versions. In the last months a growing number of large-scale attacks hit systems all over the world, many of them, like the Snake campaign, are attributable to state-sponsored hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 22, 2014
New variant of Zorenium Bot can infect iOS devices

Security analysts at SenceCy which are monitoring the advancement of a new Zorenium Bot discovered that it is able to infect also iOS devices. Security analysts at SenceCy are monitoring the evolution for the Zorenium Bot, a new and unknown malware which has been advertised in the underground since January 2014. This is the third […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2014
Fraudulent infrastructure behind 5M harvested Russian phone numbers service

Danchev profiling a service which proposes more than 5M harvested mobile phone numbers has discovered a fraudulent architecture used for illicit purposes. Cybercrime has targeted mobile industry more than ever, the number of attacks is on the rise and the proposal in the underground of tools and services for mobile market is rapidly growing. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2014
FireEye discovered Android spying components in Winspy RAT

FireEye experts investigating on a spear-phishing campaign on an US-based financial institution discovered that common WinSpy RAT was adapted to hit Android devices. FireEye Security Researchers have recently identified a new variant of Winspy RAT that can infect users’ PC and also their Android Devices during synchronization operations. We have a long discussed about the increment for […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2014
Linux Operation Windigo hit 500000 PC and 25000 dedicated servers

Antivirus Firm ESET has been tracking and investigating the operation behind Linux_Ebury uncovering a sophisticated campaign called Operation Windigo. Operation Windigo is the name of a sophisticated malware-based campaign uncovered by security Experts at ESET, that exploiting the Linux/Ebury backdoor has impacted more 500,000 computers and 25,000 dedicated servers. ESET Researchers collaborated with CERT-Bund, the European Organization […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2014
Google Public DNS Server Traffic Hijacked, Millions users impacted

Google DNS public server was hijacked yesterday for 22 minutes, the victims were hijacked to the Latin America division of BT in Venezuela and Brazil. Google is undoubtedly the main targets for hackers, its services are accessed daily by billions of Internet users, a wide audience desirable for attackers. The last successfully attack against Google […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2014
Bitcoin stealer malware disguised as application to access MtGox DB

The MtGox data leaked by the popular exchange was invented by hackers to infect a large audience with a Bitcoin stealer malware. Last month the biggest MtGox exchange filed for bankruptcy after it lost nearly 850,000 Bitcoins, it is a fraud, according an unknown hacker who breached into the personal blog and Reddit account of MtGox CEO, Mark Karpeles. As usual […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2014
A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated.  Principal security firms and CERTs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2014
TURBINE, how NSA has plundered botnets to the cybercrime

TURBINE is the codename for a sophisticated hacking platform to take control of C&C servers managed by cybercrime. The NSA has been hijacking the botnets managed by cybercrime to its own purpose, this is the last revelation on questionable activities of the agency. Also this last revelation is based on documents leaked by Snowden, the news was […]

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