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 […]
F-Secure  security firm has recently published the “Mobile threat report Q3/2012” related the past quarter that presents the mobile threat landscape, a scenario that has been characterized by Android’s 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 wasn’t the only one to detect the agent, also Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab identified the new dangerous malware, recognized […]
Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 7th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins Bank (in)Security:   Between the 1880s and the 1930s, physical bank burglaries were a substantial problem.  To counter these threats bank’s employed vaults to protect their contents from theft, unauthorised use, fire, natural disasters, and other […]
What could happen if a malware compromises a communication system adopted daily by 663 million users (info dated September 2011)? Security experts have spread an alert to Skype users about an ongoing attack that try to induce them to load a link that spreads malware. The famous voice-over-Internet application is totally changed from its original […]
It’s known that military sector represents a privileged incubator for new technologies than in many cases are subsequently used in civil. The mobile sector represents one of the most vulnerable environments due the lack of awareness on cyber threats and the increasing number of malware that are affecting devices devoid of any defense system. These […]