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Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2016

Watch out! URL shorteners could leak sensitive content

Two security researchers from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way exposing sensitive data. The security researchers Vitaly Shmatikov and Martin Georgiev from Cornell Tech discovered that web URL shorteners operate in predictable way, and this could result in the disclosure of sensitive information. The duo analyzed the most popular URL shorteners, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2016

Mapping the Dark Web searching for illegal content

Recently the intelligence firms Intelliagg and Darksum have issued an interesting report on the Dark Web and related mapping. We have discussed several times about Deep Web and Dark Web, discussing the reason why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous. However the darknets aren’t a prerogative of criminal organizations, a good portion […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 02, 2016

A NIST guide tells enterprises how to secure email systems

For the first time in a decade, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its secure email guide. The last effort of the NIST Agency in the development of email security guidelines is dated 2007 when it published the NIST SP 800-45, Version 2 – Guidelines on Electronic Mail Security. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016

Terrorists and dark web, what is their relationship?

A new study reveals that terrorist organizations are largely uninterested in using resources and services hosted on the dark web. Every day I receive a lot of requests about terrorist activities in the Dark Web, and contrary to what you might think anonymizing networks like Tor and I2P aren’t cyber places preferred by terrorist organizations. My […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2016

Nuclear Plants in Germany Are Vulnerable to Terrorism Threats

According to a recent report, Germany nuclear plants are vulnerable to terrorists and there needs to be some serious dealing with this problem. According to a recently released report, Germany is not adequately equipped to prevent terrorist attacks in its nuclear plants. According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) news agency, the report was presented by Oda Becker, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2016

Cyber attacks on systems at a water utility, a scaring reality

According to the recent Verizon breach digest for March 2016 hackers breached a water utility and manipulated systems for water treatment and flow control. The story that I’m telling you is very disturbing, according to the Verizon breach digest for March 2016 a group of hackers breached a water utility and manipulated systems for water treatment and flow […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2016

Buhtrap group stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian banks

From August 2015 to February 2016 Buhtrap group managed to conduct 13 successful attacks against Russian banks for a total amount of $25.7 mln. Since August of 2015, the Buhtrap group has conducted 13 successful attacks against financial institutions stealing more than ₽1.86 billion RUB ($27.4M USD). In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2016

KeRanger, the new MAC OS X ransomware that hit Apple users on the weekend

Over the weekend Apple customers who were looking for the latest version of Transmission were infected by KeRanger MAC OS X ransomware. Bad news for Apple customers, their systems were targeted for the first time over the weekend by a ransomware campaign. The experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 who discovered the malicious campaign reported that Apple […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2016

Which are principal cybercriminal ecosystems in the Deep Web?

TrendMicro published an interesting analysis of the principal cyber criminal underground communities in the Deep Web worldwide. A new interesting report published by the experts at TrendMicro highlights the differences between the principal underground ecosystems worldwide. Thinking of a unique “global” underground ecosystem is an error, every community has its own characteristics, the criminal crews that […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2016

Operation Transparent Tribe targets Indian diplomats and military

ProofPoint uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe targeting Indian diplomatic and military entities. A new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe is targeting diplomats and military personnel in India. The researchers at Proofpoint who have uncovered the hacking campaign confirmed that threat actors used a number of hacking techniques to hit the […]

Reports

Watch out! URL shorteners could leak sensitive content

Mapping the Dark Web searching for illegal content

A NIST guide tells enterprises how to secure email systems

Terrorists and dark web, what is their relationship?

Nuclear Plants in Germany Are Vulnerable to Terrorism Threats

Cyber attacks on systems at a water utility, a scaring reality

Buhtrap group stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian banks

KeRanger, the new MAC OS X ransomware that hit Apple users on the weekend

Which are principal cybercriminal ecosystems in the Deep Web?

Operation Transparent Tribe targets Indian diplomats and military

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