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Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2015
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Russia has a new anti wiretapping System Did terrorists use PlayStation 4 for communications in Paris attacks? Anonymous announced #OpParis against the ISIS in response to the Paris […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2015
The collective of hackers Anonymous claimed Tuesday to have taken out 5,500 Twitter accounts used by the Islamic State organization. The hacking collective Anonymous launched the operation #OpParis against the ISIS in response to the dramatic Paris attacks. The hackers belonging to Anonymous are targeting social media accounts used by members of the terrorist organization. Anonymous released […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 16, 2015
The popular security expert Scot Terban (aka @krypt3ia ) discovered a few hours after the Paris attacks, a new ISIS propaganda hub appeared on the Darknet. The Paris attacks shocked the world, the war is overwhelmingly coming into our homes and the intelligence experts fear that this is just the beginning. The ISIS knows how to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2015
Experts at BitDefender have discovered a Cryptolocker/Cryptowall Ransomware Kit offered for sale at $3,000, source code included. Yesterday I wrote about a new Ransomware-as-a-service, the FAKBEN, surfaced from the criminal underground, requesting customers 10 percent profit cut. In the previous days I reported other cases involving ransomware, such as a malicious code that infected the UK […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2015
U.S. Authorities have charged other three men in huge cyber fraud targeting JPMorgan, and at least another nine financial institutions. The US authorities have charged three individuals over the hack of the JPMorgan Chase and other financial institutions. The data breach suffered by the JPMorgan Chase is considered the largest ever hacking case in financial history, data related nearly 76 million households […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 10, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux.Encoder1 that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. Last week security experts at Russian antivirus firm Doctor Web reported the discovery of a new Linux ransomware dubbed Linux.Encoder1 that is targeting Linux systems. It has been estimated that tens of users have already […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2015
Researchers at Russian antivirus company Doctor Web have discovered a Linux ransomware that has already infected tens of users. Ransomware is a profitable instrument in the criminal ecosystem, security experts discover new variant on a weekly basis. This week the new variant of Cryptowall, the Cryptowall 4.0, appeared in the wild, meanwhile an offline ransomware is targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2015
ProtonMail has paid a $6000 Ransom to stop prolonged DDoS attacks that knocked its services offline since Tuesday. Unfortunately, the attacks are continuing. The popular encrypted email service ProtonMail has suffered a prolonged major DDoS attack that knocked it offline since Tuesday. It was an extortion attempt, the attackers requested a ransom in order to stop the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
Security Experts at InfoArmor discovered GovRAT, a malware-signing-as-a-service platform that is offered to APT groups in the underground. In the past, I have explained why digital certificates are so attractive for crooks and intelligence agencies, one of the most interesting uses is the signature of malware code in order to fool antivirus. Naturally, digital certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]
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