Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2018
According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to 0.06% in Pie Google published the first Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report that revealed that the number of potentially harmful applications (PHAs) discovered on Android 9 Pie devices has been reduced by half compared to the previous versions. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2018
USB removable storage devices are the main vector for malware attacks against industrial facilities, states Honeywell report. According to a report published on by Honeywell, malware-based attacks against industrial facilities mostly leverage USB removable storage devices Experts from Honeywell analyzed data collected with the Secure Media Exchange (SMX), a product it has launched in 2017 and that was designed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2018
The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the efforts to secure the NHS IT infrastructure, with a focus on WannaCry overall costs. The UK’s Department of Health and Social Care provided an update on the spent to secure the IT infrastructure in a report titled “Securing cyber resilience in health […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
According to a new report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) almost any new weapon systems in the arsenal of the Pentagon is vulnerable to hack. The new generation of weapon systems developed by the Pentagon is heavily computerized and for this reason more exposed to cyber attacks. According to a new 50-page report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2018
Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2018
Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI, the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. Business email compromise (BEC) and email account […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2018
Experts at the Cybaze Z-Lab have analyzed the latest iteration of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, version 5.0. Malware researchers at Cybaze ZLab analyzed the latest version of the infamous GandCrab ransomware, version 5.0. Most of the infections have been observed in central Europe, but experts found evidence that the malicious code doesn’t infect Russian users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2018
According to Akamai’s latest State of the Internet report on credential stuffing, credential stuffing continues to be growing threat. According to Akamai report titled “[state of the internet] / security CREDENTIAL STUFFING ATTACKS“ the credential stuffing attacks are a growing threat and often underestimated. Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Experts at the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found a Gafgyt variant implementing the VanillaUPX technique recently presented in a cybersecurity conference A new variant of the Gafgyt botnet is spreading in the last hours and experts of the CSE Cybsec Z-Lab have found it with the support of the Italian cyber security experts @Odisseus and GranetMan. The new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2018
Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. What is infecting IoT devices and how? The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. The first data that emerged […]
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