Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2014
New slides leaked by Snowden, and published by NBC NEWS, reveal that GCHQ ran DoS attack on chatrooms used by Anonymous and LulzSec. The last revelation on the investigation conducted by NBC News on Snowden case reveals that British intelligence GCHQ ran denial-of-service attacks against Anonymous and LulzSec. Documents leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden reports the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2014
Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player to fix a critical vulnerability exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign. Adobe has released today a new patch for the Flash Player product to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited. The vulnerability (CVE-2014-0497), allows an attacker to remotely take control of the targeted system […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2014
Security researcher Neal Hindocha has developed a Screenlogging malware that logs finger swipes on smart devices in combination with taking screenshots. Pattern lock are not enough to protect our Smartphone because  hackers are able to log swipe gestures with a malware. The news was reported by Forbes, Neal Hindocha, a senior security consultant for Trustwave, has designed a Screenlogging malware that can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2014
Security experts at Malcovery firm have detected a new Zeus variant bypassing the security traditional defenses with the usage of encryption. Zeus malware is hard to die, the availability of its source code in the wild caused periodically the born of a new variant, even more resistant  and sophisticated. Over the years, we saw variants […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2014
The last update for the Facebook Android app reads user’s text messages, is it an abuse of privilege or what else? Here you are the truth … maybe A recent update for Facebook Android raised a great concern for user’s privacy because it can read text messages on the smartphone. The climate of suspicion after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2014
Researchers at RSA discovered a new variant of Tor-based malware ‘ChewBacca’, is able to infect Point-of-Sale stealing Credit Card data. The recent data breaches at US retailers Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels have raised the alert level of malware-based attacks against POS systems. More than one hundred million Americans is victims of scams that mainly used a malware known as BlackPOS or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2014
Russian company Doctor Web detected Android.Oldboot, an  Android Trojan that resides in the memory of infected devices and starts on OS bootstrapping. The Russian security firm Doctor Web has detected the first mass distributed Android bootkit malware dubbed Android.Oldboot, its principal capability is to re-infect the Smartphone after reboot, even if all its components are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2014
Symantec experts recently came across a Windows malicious code that attempts to infect connected Android devices serving an Android malware. Researchers at Symantec antivirus firm have discovered a malicious code that is able to infect Android mobile device with a banking malware during synchronization. The Android malware that was designed to hit Windows user could compromise user’s Smartphone during file […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2014
Kaspersky Lab malware expert Dmitry Bestuzhev revealed a large-scale spam email campaign that is advertising the PC version of the mobile WhatsApp app to spread a banking trojan. A large-scale spam email campaign is advertising the PC version of the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, itâs a pity that the application does not actually exist […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2014
Thanks to efficient investigation conducted by private firms like IntelCrawler, BlackPOS author was identifyed and professes his innocence and good faith. I was within the official source to spot the 23-year-old teenager who developed the BlackPOS malware thanks to the revelations made by Cyber Intelligence firm IntelCrawler. The author of BlackPOS was known as “ree[4]” in […]
