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Pierluigi Paganini February 19, 2015
Lenovo sold laptop with pre-installed Superfish malware

The Lenovo computer company knowingly shipped laptops with pre-installed Superfish malware. And ‘controversy on the web, users are outraged. Lenovo is in the storm one again, security experts discovered that the company is shipping laptops with Superfish malware , a malware that allows to steal web traffic using man-in-the-middle attacks. SuperFish is considered by many antivirus companies as […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2015
How attackers use phishing kits for their campaigns

How cyber criminals use several phishing kits to run malicious campaigns and which is the economy behind this category of attacks? Most of the major banks and companies that suffer this type of attacks make people aware of phishing, but despite the high level of awareness of the threat, the phenomenon does not slow down, indeed seems to accelerate […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2015
New DYRE banking malware in the wild

The experts at TrendMicro detected a new variant of the DYRE /Dyreza banking malware with new propagation and evasion techniques. Researchers at Trend Micro have identified a new strain of the Dyre (Dyreza) financial malware  (Dyreza), which is targeting a larger number of banks. The new variant of Dyre implements some sophisticated propagation and evasion techniques. According to Trend Micro this […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2015
Experts uncovered a massive CTB-Locker ransowmare campaign

Security researchers at the CERT team at Société Générale uncovered a new malware campaign which is spreading the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. Security experts at the CERT team at Société Générale discovered a new malware campaign delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. In the past, the criminals used the popular Angler exploit kit in order […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2015
Sony hackers hacked. Lizard Stresser database leaked online with credentials in plaintext

Database of the Lizard Stresser DDoS tool proposed by the Lizard Squad was leaked on like revealing that the group stored client’s credential in plaintext. Last week the another alleged member of the popular Lizard Squad was arrested by UK authorities, the British Police in collaboration with the FBI identified a 18-year-old boy that is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2015
CryptoWall 3.0 hides C&C Communications with I2P Anonymity Network

Security Experts at Microsoft discovered a new variant of CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware that adopts I2P Anonymity Network for C&C Communications. A new version of CryptoWall ransomware has been detected in the wild by experts at Microsoft, just a week after I reported that Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group detected a new strain of the same […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2015
Silk Road Reloaded, an important development in the world of black markets

The newborn Silk Road Reloaded black marketplace adopts I2P Anonymous Network and different virtual currency scheme to protect illegal business. The Operation Onymous conducted by law enforcement allowed the seizure of dozens of black markets on Tor Networks. While all the underground marketplaces in the DeepWeb, including Silk Road 2.0, went down due to the operation of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2015
83 Percent of Tor hidden service traffic flowed to Pedo websites. Study finds.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Portsmouth revealed that over 80 Percent of Tor network visits is related to pedo sites. In the last couple of years a growing number of security experts are focusing their research on Darknet, a portion of the Deep Web often used by the criminal underground to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2014
Hacking 4G USB modems and SIM Card via SMS

A group of experts managed to uncover USB modem vulnerabilities that allow a potential attacker to gain full control of the connected system. A team of researchers at Positive Technologies conducted a study on how to compromise USB modems and attack SIM cards via SMS over 4G networks at the PacSec and Chaos Computer Club […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2014
TorrentLocker ransomware campaign hit Spain and Italy

Experts at S21sec firm recently detected a new ransomware campaign based on TorrentLocker that infected users prevalently in Italy and Spain. The last report published by Trend Micro revealed that ransomware represents a serious cyber threat in the EMEA region, where countries like Italy and Spain observed over 80% of the affected users. Recently S21sec detected […]