Pierluigi Paganini
November 23, 2012
French weekly news magazine L’Express has reported that offices of France’s former president Sarkozy were hit by a cyber espionage campaign back in May 2012. Few days before the second round of the presidential election won by Hollande the Presidentâs office was infected by Flame malware, within the compromise PCs also the one of Sarkozyâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2012
Yesterday I wrote about a new variant of malware able to use Google Docs function to hide communications to C&C servers, but daily we read about malicious agents that compromise  every OS, also the ones considered most secure from security community. Recently security experts have detected a rootkit designed to infect Linux machines implementing an infection schema […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2012
The ways explored by malware creators are unlimited, recently Symantec has announced the discovery of a new operational mode for backdoor trojan Makadocs, the security firm has in fact reported that a variant of malware hides its command-and-control (C&C) server communications using a legitimate Google Docs function. Backdoor.Makadocs is a Trojan horse that opens a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2012
Once again Middle East area is the scene of a series of cyber attacks, several malware attacks have hit over the last year Israeli and Palestinian systems apparently having a common origin. A group of experts from Norwegian antivirus and security firm Norman ASA  have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign against the countries that used various […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2012
F-Secure  security firm has recently published the âMobile threat report Q3/2012â related the past quarter that presents the mobile threat landscape, a scenario that has been characterized by Androidâs dominance. The rapid diffusion of Android devices has had the effect of increasing the number of malware developed for the famous OS,  during the third quarter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2012
Do you remember the case of the Anonymous OS proposed during last months? Who developed that OS and why? Difficult to say, maybe law enforcement to track members of the collective or someone else that desired to benefit of the popularity of the group to exploit a large number of users. A similar case has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2012
Trend Micro published a very interesting report on the Russian underground market, the document written by Max Goncharov analyzed the services and the products marketed by cyber criminals. The study is based on data obtained from the analysis of online forums and services attended by Russian hackers such as antichat.ru, xeka.ru, and carding-cc.com. Trend Micro […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2012
Trend Micro has released the report “3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP -Android Under Siege: Popularity Comes at a Price” that presents a worrying trend for malware growth increased of 483%. The increment include cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform. Malware targeting Android platform increased […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 21, 2012
After much work during the last months I’m proud and happpy to announce the publishing of The Deep Dark Web book. It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website  http://www.amazon.com/The-Deep-Dark-Web-hidden/dp/1480177598 PAPER BOOK It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009VN40DU KINDLE It is AVAILABLE @SmashWords website  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/247146 It is AVAILABLE @Barnes & Noble website    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-deep-dark-web-pierluigi-paganini/1113594408?ean=2940015852837 and we have uploaded it also to Amazon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2012
Last May The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) detected a new targeted malware which hit the country, that has been named Flame, also known as Flamer or Skywiper, due the name of  its main attack module. MAHER wasnât the only one to detect the agent, also Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab identified the new dangerous malware, recognized […]
