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Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2016
Security experts from the firm SentinelOne monitored a recent CryptXXX Ransomware campaign that allowed crooks to make $50,000 in a few weeks. Security experts from security firm SentinelOne have analyzed the activity related to CryptXXX ransomware’s operators. They discovered that the gang made around $49,700 from the payment of ransoms between June 4 and June 21, 2016, the money […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 13, 2016
The newfound critical vulnerability on Twitter seems to allow remote code execution! Which is the reason behind the recent Twitter security issues? The newfound critical vulnerability on Twitter seems to allow remote code execution! The last days we have seen some cases that have to do with Twitter’s security making us wonder if the famous […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 12, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Old CVE-2014-3704 flaw in Drupal still exploited in attacks Sh0ping.su hacked, stolen card data and accounts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 11, 2016
CERT-Bund released a warning that corporate executives may be being targeted with malicious emails using data from the LinkedIn data breach. The cascading effects of the 2012 LinkedIn breach are still being felt throughout the business world. On Monday, CERT-Bund, Germany’s Computer Emergency Response Team for federal agencies, released a warning that corporate executives may […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2016
Twitter investigated account login credentials recently offered for sale on the dark web, locked the accounts and reset their passwords. This week a Russian hacker offered for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials on the Dark Web. The alleged Russian hacker offered Twitter account credentials for 10 Bitcoins (over $5,800). In response to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2016
A hacker is offering for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials with plans to sell the account details on the Dark Web. Recent news of massive data breaches suffered by IT giants LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com shocked the security industry. Millions of login credentials are available for sale in the principal black markets, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2016
The FBI has issued a warning that individuals should be on their guard against extortion email scam linked to recent high-profile data breaches. The FBI states that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has identified this new variety of extortion through the increased instance of reports to the Centre from individuals who have fallen victim […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale on the Dark Web. Another day another data breach, this time 100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale. Some experts estimate that the number of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2016
Experts at Flashpoint published an interesting analysis of a ransomware campaign organized by a small gang of cyber criminals. Cybercrime is a profitable business, last week we reported that according to security experts at Check Point, the creators of the Nuclear EK are gaining nearly 100K USD each month, most victims are in Europe and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2016
According to a new analysis published by experts at Heimdal Security a new Ransomware campaign targeted millions by spoofing Telco giant Telia. Ransomware continues to represent one of the most insidious and aggressive cyber threats, a new campaign launched by threat actors in the wild is impersonating the telecom giant Telia. According to the experts at the […]
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