Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016
Fancy Bear Hackers use a new Mac Trojan against aerospace industry

Researchers at Palo Alto spotted a new campaign of the Russian Fancy Bear APT using a new Mac OS X Trojan against companies in the aerospace industry. In the last weeks, we have discussed a lot about a string of attacks that targeted the US  Democratic National Committee (DNC), security experts collected evidence of the involvement […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2016
Microsoft removed Windows Journal from its OSs due to security flaws

Microsoft encourages Windows users to remove the Windows Journal application by following the steps found in Microsoft update KB3161102. Microsoft has removed the Windows Journal application from its OSs due to the presence of multiple security flaws that can be exploited by hackers through specially crafted Journal files (.jnt) which are used to store notes […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016
The Libyan Scorpions group is behind a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia

The Cyberkov Security Incident Response team spotted a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia conducted by a group named Libyan Scorpions. Thinking of Libya we have in mind a non-stable political country where various forces fight for the control of strategic territories and oil productions. but only a few experts know about cyber malicious activities in the area. Evidently, something […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016
A nation-state actor is testing methods for a massive takedown of the Internet

According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet? Is it possible? Our society heavily depends on technology and the Internet is the privileged vector of the information today. Blocking the Internet could […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016
Security firm Sucuri analyzed tens of thousands of compromised websites

Security firm Sucuri published a detailed study, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, on compromised websites on the Internet. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year. Sucuri has published a report, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, related compromised websites on the web. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2016
OVH hosting hit by 1Tbps DDoS attack, the largest one ever seen

The hosting company OVH was the victim of a 1 Tbps DDoS attack that hit its servers, this is the largest one ever seen on the Internet. The hosting provider OVH faced 1Tbps DDoS attack last week, likely the largest offensive ever seen. The OVH founder and CTO Octave Klaba reported the 1Tbps DDoS attack on Twitter […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2016
Australian Police warns of malware-laden USB drives left in letterboxes

The Police in the Australian State of Victoria issued a warning to the local population of malware-laden USB drives left in letterboxes. USB drives are a privileged vector of attack, security experts have demonstrated that it is possible to hide malicious code in memory stick that could compromise almost every computer. We are aware that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2016
Pippa Middleton private photos stolen in an Apple iCloud hack

In what could be another serious celebrity hack, 3,000 photos have been stolen from Pippa Middleton ’s account and they are being offered for sale. The UK Police is investigating the Pippa Middleton iCloud hack and consequent theft of private photos. According to The Sun newspaper the stolen photos were offered for sale, it seems that someone had […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Anonrising freesec

Today we will speak with Anonrising freesec, a hacker that is very active online and that is also fighting online terrorism. You are a talented hacker that has already participated in several hacking campaigns, could you tell me more about you. Sure, I’ve been working with OPDdosISIS mainly against ISIS, taking sites down (2013-2015) also Im […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2016
Cyber crooks focus on the future as ATM Biometric Skimmers go on Sale

Kaspersky Lab presented an investigation on the future of ATM Biometric Skimmers and how cybercriminals could exploit them. A recent investigation by Kaspersky Labs reports that a number of underground sellers are offering skimmers, which have the capability of stealing users biometric data such as fingerprints. A number of others are researching iris scanning and […]