Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Why are we all silent on the surveillance?

Silicon Valley with its bright minds has come to a point where almost every day they collect information about individuals. Why are we all silent on the surveillance? NSA spying apart, what Facebook, Apple, and Google know about their usual users is quite overwhelming. Each of these major players is trying to find more about us. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
DDG, the second largest mining botnet targets Redis and OrientDB servers

Researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab analyzed a new campaign powered by the DDG botnet, the second largest mining botnet of ever, that targets Redis and OrientDB servers. A new Monero-mining botnet dubbed DDG was spotted in the wild, the malware targets Redis and OrientDB servers. According to the researchers at Qihoo 360’s Netlab, the DDG botnet […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
WannaMine, the sophisticated crypto miner that spreads via NSA EternalBlue exploit

Researchers from security firm CrowdStrike spotted a new Monero crypto-mining worm dubbed WannaMine that spreads leveraging the NSA-linked EternalBlue exploit. This morning I wrote about the Smominru botnet that used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems, and I explained that other threat actors are using similar techniques to mine cryptocurrency. This is the case of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2018
Mining Smominru botnet used NSA exploit to infect more than 526,000 systems

Researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that is using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. The number of cyber attacks against the cryptocurrency sector continues, vxers are focusing their efforts on the development of cryptocurrency/miner malware. Recently security experts observed cryptocurrency miners leveraging the NSA EternalBlue SMB exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2018
Military personnel improperly used Fitness Strava Tracker exposed their bases

Military worldwide have publicly shared online their exercise routes recorded through the fitness tracker Strava revealing the fitness sessions conducted inside or near military bases We discussed many times privacy risks related to IoT devices, here we are to discuss an alarming case, fitness tracker Strava revealed details of Military Bases. American and allied military worldwide have publicly shared their exercise […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2018
Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck to refund to customers after cyberheist

Coincheck announced it will refund about $400 million to 260,000 customers after the hack, the company will use its own funds. On Friday the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck caused the drop in the value of the major cryptocurrencies, the incident had a significant impact on the NEM value that dropped more than […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s DoubleClick to deliver Coinhive Miner

Trend Micro uncovered a spike in the number of Coinhie miners over the past few days, including Coinhive, apparently linked to Google’s DoubleClick ads that are proposed on YouTube and other sites. The number of cyber-attacks against cryptocurrencies is increased due to a rapid increase in the value of currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Cryptocurrencies Black Friday – Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck hacked

It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, after the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck the value of major cryptocurrencies dropped. It is a black Friday for cryptocurrencies, the news of the hack of the Japan-based digital exchange Coincheck had a significant impact on their value. Coincheck was founded in 2012, it is one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2018
Monero Crypto-Currency Mining Operation impacted 30 Million users

Security experts from PaloAlto Networks uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation that involved around 30 million systems worldwide. Security experts from PaloAlto Networks have uncovered a large-scale crypto-currency mining operation active for over 4 months. Experts believe the activity involved around 30 million systems worldwide to mine the Monero cryptocurrency using the open-source XMRig utility. The threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2018
A look into the cyber arsenal used by Lazarus APT hackers in recent attacks against financial institutions

Security experts at Trend Micro have analyzed malware and a tool used by the Lazarus APT group in the recent attacks against financial institutions. Security experts at Trend Micro have analyzed the attacks conducted by the notorious Lazarus APT group against financial institutions. The activity of the Lazarus Group surged in 2014 and 2015, its […]