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Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2013
Cyber security expert Dancho Danchev profiled a new OPSEC training services in the underground, a new trend that is converging to standardization of knowledge sharing in the cybercrime ecosystem. Speaking of cybercrime, with the term OPSEC are usually referred the basic operational security activities conducted by cyber criminals to avoid being tracked and monetize their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2013
Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new Tor-based banking trojan named “ChewBacca”, it is the last malware exploiting Tor network. Tor network is a territory of exploration for cybercriminals that are increasing their attention in the popular anonymizing network for make more resilient malicious botnets. The principal advantages for adoption of hidden service in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2013
ENISA releases the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013, it a collection of information on top cyber-threats that have been assessed in the reporting period. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, a document that was annually issued to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. The ENISA has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2013
Researchers at ReVuln demonstrated how gain the control of an entire render farm exploiting the vulnerability affecting NVIDIA mental ray. Researchers at ReVuln recently published a paper that details a vulnerability affecting NVIDIA mental ray which allows an attacker to take control over a mental ray based render farm. Probably not all know what is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 19, 2013
Cryptolocker is considered one of most insidious threat for Internet users, a recent spam campaign targeted 10M UK Users, let’s learn how fight it Recently the UK’s National Crime Agency has issued an alert on a large spam campaign based on CryptoLocker ransomware that is targeting more than 10 million UK based email users. CryptoLocker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2013
A new version of the popular black market Silk Road has been launched, the greatest illegal marketplace on Tor network has risen again. The Silk Road is up again, the biggest black market of the Tor network came online on Wednesday. Silk Road was seized by the FBI last October, law enforcement has also identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2013
What is an E-shop for iFramed traffic and how does cybercrime exploit it? In this post thanks to the investigation of the incredible Dancho Danchev I’ll try to answer to these questions. On numerous occasion I remarked the need to carefully observe the evolution of the underground market to identify dangerous trends that can leave portend a new wave of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2013
FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road and identified its owner. The site was producing earning for more than $1.2 billion in business. The FBI has closed the popular black market Silk Road after many years of investigation, the website hosted in the Tor Network was seized by US law enforcement. Last year a research made by the Carnegie Mellon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2013
IT security firm F-Secure has published its Threat Report H1 2013, the document proposes a focus on Java exploits, mobile threats, Bitcoin mining, APTs and Mac malware. F-Secure security firm has released the Threat Report H1 2013 that provides an overview on cyber security landscape analyzing the events that characterized the first part of the year. The primary cause of incidents according the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 28, 2013
An identity theft service that sells personal information on millions of US citizens has been hacked. Millions of US citizens exposed to Id Theft. Around 5 Millions of Americans are exposed to the concrete risk of identity theft, this is one of most clamorous and grotesque case of data breach, hackers stolen data on US citizens that were stored in the […]
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