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Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
A serious vulnerability in the FancyBox WordPress plugin makes it easy for a hacker to compromise any website based on the popular CMS. Last week SecurityWeek reported about another a zero-day flaw found in a WordPress plugin. This time, a new vulnerability found in the popular FancyBox for WordPress plugin could be exploited to inject […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that unknown hackers have compromised Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US … it’s security emergency. Researchers at Trend Micro and many other security firms have observed a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against systems in oil and energy industries. Another worrying trend observed by the experts is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
DARPA has publicly presented for the first time a new set of search tools called Memex which will improve also researches into the “Deep Web”. In 2014, the U.S. Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a the MEMEX project to design advanced search tools that could be also used to scan the deep web, which isn’t indexed by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Cisco experts discovered a phishing campaign that is spreading fake Volume License Trojan Chanitor to corporate users and is able to evade sandboxes. A few weeks ago, multiple Cisco Managed Threat Defense (MTD) customers received an email that appeared as sent by the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), which contains a link to login to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Security experts at Sophos spotted a new phishing campaign targeting iCloud users. The attackers are interested in the victims’ financial data. Sophos security firm reported that threat actors are running phishing campaign against Apple iCloud users to steal financial data. The messages sent by bad actors are tailored to appear as legitimate security alerts issued by Apple. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2015
WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool that could allow an attacker to access Whatsapp user information related to his activity. WhatsSpy Public is a web-based tool created by Maikel Zweerink that can trace the moves of a WhatsApp user. WhatsSpy is able to display user information in a friendly dashboard that includes events being displayed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2015
Following the Anthem data breach, cyber criminals launched phishing campaigns to harvest customers’ personal information and credentials. A few hours after disclosure of the news of the data breach suffered by the nation’s second largest health insurer Anthem cyber criminals started sending phishing emails related to the cyber attacks. The Anthem incident could potentially impact millions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2015
Anonymous announced the OpISIS and launched a series of attacks against the jihadist websites supporting the ISIS and its propaganda on the Web. As promised the Anonymous collective has launched a massive cyber attack against Islamic State (ISIS) terror group, the popular group shouted revenge in the aftermath of the vicious against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. After […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2015
Researchers at Veracode discovered that nearly 41% of enterprise applications using GNU C Library employ the Ghost-ridden ‘gethostbyname’ function. GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability, named as the GHOST vulnerability, was released by Qualys Guard on 27th January 2015. Severity of this vulnerability is “CRITICAL” and listed in CVE database as CVE-2015-0235. Vulnerability is termed as […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2015
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 […]
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