Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The presence of the Superfish software in Lenovo laptops exposes the users to serious risks of hacking. The researcher Graham explained the reason. The news of the presence of Superfish adware in the laptops sold by the Chinese Lenovo has shocked the IT industry. The company has intentionally pre-installed a malware on laptops, but which are the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
The Lenovo computer company knowingly shipped laptops with pre-installed Superfish malware. And ‘controversy on the web, users are outraged. Lenovo is in the storm one again, security experts discovered that the company is shipping laptops with Superfish malware , a malware that allows to steal web traffic using man-in-the-middle attacks. SuperFish is considered by many antivirus companies as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
Attackers behind the Arid Viper and the Yanbian Gang exploited sex content for their campaigns against victims in Israel and Kuwait, and South Korea. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign, dubbed Operation Arid Viper, that targeted Israeli institutions. The Operation Arid Viper is run by Arab-speaking hackers that sought to extract […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2015
A Chinese hacking crew dubbed Yanbian Gang has siphoned data from mobile banking customers in South Korea during the past two years, according to a new report. According to researchers at Trend Micro, the cybercriminals used fake banking apps having the same appearance (i.e. icons and user interface) of the legitimate mobile apps, to trick users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2015
Adrian Nish of BAE System presented the results of its investigation on the Ali Baba APT group operating from the Middle East that hit Western companies. Yesterday the Kaspersky Lab team revealed the results of its investigation on the hacking crew dubbed the Equation group, a team of hackers that demonstrate extraordinary capabilities and sophisticated tactics, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2015
Experts at Kaspersky Lab revealed that the capabilities of the Equation Group Surpass anything known in terms of sophistication of hacking techniques. Security experts at Kaspersky revealed the existence of a hacking group operating since 2001 that targeted practically every industry with sophisticated zero-day malware. According to a new report from Kaspersky Lab, this group, dubbed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2015
It has been outlined that most antivirus software do not detect all the malware and other threats that they should, leaving room for infection and motivating companies to look deeper for more effective solutions to the problem of online security. The safety of an internet user against a threat of a virus infection is analogous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 13, 2015
A recent study published by Alcatel-Lucent’s Motive Security Labs reported that 16 million mobile devices worldwide have been infected by malware. Security experts noticed a significant increase in cyber threats to mobile and residential devices and attacks on communications networks in 2014. A growing number of sophisticated attacks are threatening personal and corporate information representing a serious […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2015
The experts at TrendMicro detected a new variant of the DYRE /Dyreza banking malware with new propagation and evasion techniques. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the Dyre (Dyreza) financial malware (Dyreza), which is targeting a larger number of banks. The new variant of Dyre implements some sophisticated propagation and evasion techniques. According to Trend Micro this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
A recent study published by RiskIQ security firm revealed that more than 11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code. With the rapid spread of mobile banking services has increased significantly the number of cyber crimes targeting users of major financial institutions. According to an interesting research conducted by the company RiskIQ more than 11 […]
