Digital ID

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2018
Leaked memo suggest NSA and US Army compromised Tor, I2P, VPNs and want to unmask Monero users

The image of a memo leaked online suggests US Army and NSA are able to unmask Tor, I2P, VPNs users and they are working to track Monero, US Army and NSA are able to unmask Tor, I2P, VPNs users and they are working to track Monero, this is the truth revealed by a photo alleged leaked […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2018
Japan’s Financial Services Agency raided the Coincheck headquarters in Tokyo after the hack

  Cryptocurrencies are in the middle of a Tempest, on Thursday India announced it would adopt measures to prevent the use of virtual currencies in the country, the value of Bitcoin dropped below $9,000 for the first time since November. Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, in his annual budget, explained its government would “take all measures to eliminate use […]

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 […]