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Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2013

My read of WebSense 2013 Threat Report

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

Botnet organization, easy and cheap!

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

Is phishing really going down? No, it is only migrated to mobile

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

Cybercriminals sell hacked PayPal credentials in underworld

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

Also Microsoft in the club of hacked companies

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

What does the Poetry with Citadel trojan?

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

Government networks totally vulnerable to cyber attacks

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

Facebook compromised by zero-day Java exploit

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

Botnets for rent, criminal services sold in the underground market

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2013

Adobe 0-days exploited for IEEE aerospace spearphishing attacks

Last week Adobe released a patch for Adobe Flash that fixed a zero day vulnerability, CVE-2013-0633, that is being exploited using Microsoft Office files with embedded flash content delivered via email. The vulnerability is not isolated, it is circulating the news of a new one coded CVE-2013-0634 being exploited trough web browsers such as Firefox and Safari […]

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My read of WebSense 2013 Threat Report

Botnet organization, easy and cheap!

Is phishing really going down? No, it is only migrated to mobile

Cybercriminals sell hacked PayPal credentials in underworld

Also Microsoft in the club of hacked companies

What does the Poetry with Citadel trojan?

Government networks totally vulnerable to cyber attacks

Facebook compromised by zero-day Java exploit

Botnets for rent, criminal services sold in the underground market

Adobe 0-days exploited for IEEE aerospace spearphishing attacks

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