Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2016
The US Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity, tasked by President Barack Obama, issued its final report with recommendations on cybersecurity. Cyber security is a primary issue in the agenda of many countries, the U.S. Presidential commission has recently issued recommendations to urge a proactive cooperation between private and public sectors. The collaboration aims to improve the security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2016
Criminal gangs like the Cobalt gang are now focusing their efforts on the banks to steal cash directly from the ATMs with jackpotting attacks. Security experts are assisting a change of tactics for the criminal organizations who target the ATMs and online banking credentials. Crooks are now focusing their efforts on the banks in the attempt to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2016
According to a study published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malicious search engine results has been increasing. The vast majority of the Internet users blindly trust data provided in response to their queries to the search engines. Actually, search engine results are increasingly poisoned with malicious links, the experts noticed a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2016
The Group-IB firm has published a report titled “High Crime Trends 2016” that includes interesting data about principal cybercrime trends. Group-IB, one of the global leaders in preventing and investigating high-tech crimes and online frauds, has published an interesting report titled “High Crime Trends 2016” that provides an interesting analyzing of current criminal activities. The Key Trends evaluate are evaluated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2016
Which are principal cities hostages of malicious botnets? Symantec has tried to reply the difficult questions with an interesting study. It is not a mystery, there is a strict link between cybercrime and Geography. Cyber criminal organization used different tactics and offer different products depending on the country where they operate. Russian criminal communities specialize in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2016
The US ICS-CERT published its annual vulnerability coordination report for FY 2015 that provided information about security holes reported to the agency. The US ICS-CERT has published its annual vulnerability coordination report for the fiscal year 2015. The report included detailed information about security vulnerabilities reported to the US ICS-CERT in 2015. “ICS-CERT is pleased to announce the release of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 26, 2016
Security firm Sucuri published a detailed study, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, on compromised websites on the Internet. According to the security expert Daniel Cid from Sucuri, at least 15,769 WordPress websites have been compromised this year. Sucuri has published a report, titled Hacked Website Report for 2016/Q2, related compromised websites on the web. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 21, 2016
The Shadowserver Foundation has conducted a scan of the Internet for CISCO devices running IOS software affected by the CVE-2016-6415 vulnerability. Recently experts from CISCO discovered a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6415, in IOS system,while investigating the Equation Group‘s exploits leaked by the Shadow Broker hacker group. In particular, experts from CISCO were evaluating the impact […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2016
Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have published a report on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 its criminal ecosystem. Security experts from the cyber threat intelligence firm Blueliv have conducted a technical investigation on the banking Trojan Vawtrak v2 and activities of the cybercriminal groups behind the threat. Vawtrak is a threat that has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2016
According to the Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months. The DDoS attacks continue to be privileged attack vectors for crooks, according to the last report published by Akamai (Akamai Q2 2016 report) the number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over […]
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