Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2018
A new report from MALWAREBYTES titled “Malwarebytes Annual State of Malware Report” reveals a rise of 90% on ransomware detection in business. The report brings to light new trends on hackers activities and threats especially the rise of ransomware as a tool of choice. Researchers from MALWAREBYTES had gathered an enormous amount of data from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 22, 2018
Malware experts at CSE Cybsec uncovered a massive malvertising campaign dubbed EvilTraffic leveraging tens of thousands compromised websites. Crooks exploited some CMS vulnerabilities to upload and execute arbitrary PHP pages used to generate revenues via advertising. In the last days of 2017, researchers at CSE Cybsec observed threat actors exploiting some CMS vulnerabilities to upload […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2018
The Skygofree spyware analyzed by Kaspersky today was first spotted by the researcher Lukas Stefanko and the first analysis was published last year by the CSE Cybsec ZLab. Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have made the headlines because they have spotted a new strain of a powerful Android spyware, dubbed Skygofree, that was used to gain full control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2018
IOACTIVE researchers warn that critical infrastructure mobile applications are being developed without secure coding compliance that could allow hackers to target SCADA Systems. In a report released today, by IOACTIVE, researchersâ advice that critical infrastructure mobile applications are being developed without secure coding compliance that could allow hackers to target Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2018
A new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware spread in the wild and adopts a new advanced evasion technique dubbed Double Process Hollowing. Whereas the malware LockPos, famous for its new incredibly advanced and sophisticated evasion technique, spread and affected many Points of Sale, another variant spread in the wild and adopts a similar but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2018
Turla APT group’s espionage campaigns now employs Adobe Flash Installer and an ingenious social engineering technique, the backdoor is downloaded from what appears to be legitimate Adobe URLs and IP addresses. Security researchers from ESET who have analyzed recent cyber espionage campaigns conducted by the dreaded Turla APT group reported that hackers leverage on malware downloaded from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2017
For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password found in data dumps in 2017 despite the numerous warning of using strong passwords. For the second year in a row, “123456” was the top password among the millions of passwords exposed online due to the numerous data breaches suffered by organizations and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2017
NTT Security, a company of the tech giant NTT Group focused on cyber security, has released its 2017 Global Threat Intelligence Center (GTIC) Quarterly Threat Intelligence Report. The research includes data collected over the last three months from global NTT Security managed security service (MSS) platforms and a variety of open-source intelligence tools and honeypots. The report […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2017
According to a report recently published by the security firm Corero the number of DDoS Attacks doubled in the First Half of 2017 due to unsecured IoT. Denial of Service (DoS) attacks have been around as long as computers have been networked. But if your business relies on the Internet to sell products or collaborate, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2017
Freedom of the Net report – Online manipulation played a crucial role in elections in at least 18 countries over the past year, including the United States. While cyber security experts still debate cyber attacks against 2016 Presidential Election, according to the independent watchdog Freedom House at least 18 countries had their elections hacked last year. The […]
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