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Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2014
Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform, the DIY Spy Drone

Vespid is amongst most the important espionage artifacts based on the Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform for the for the construction of a DIY Spy Drone. The Wireless Aerial Surveillance Platform is a small DIY drone that has the capability to crack Wi-Fi passwords, eavesdropping on Wi-Fi passwords, eavesdropping on cell phone calls and read text […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2014
Grinch Bug Could be worse than Shellshock, Says Experts

Researchers discover a vulnerability in Linux operating systems dubbed Grinch Bug, which is exploited to give malicious hackers Root access to a computer system. The flaw resides in the authorization system in Linux which allows privilege escalation through the wheel. A new privilege escalation bug similar to shellshock is giving Linux administrators sleepless nights just days after […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2014
Operation Tornado – FBI Used Metasploit to unmask Tor users

Operation Tornado is the first time that FBI deployed a tracking code broadly against every visitor to a website, instead of targeting a particular user. The Wired portal has published a detailed post to describe how the FBI used a collection of freely available exploits and hacking tool to de-anonymize users in the Tor network. Wired revealed […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2014
TSPY_BANKER Banking Trojan Targets banks in South Korea

Security experts at Trend Micro detected a new banking trojan dubbed TSPY_BANKER.YYSI which uses Pinterest as command and control system. According to researchers at Trend Micro once again, banks in South Korea are targeted by a new financial malware designed to target their customers. The attackers have targeted customers of the principal financial institutions of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2014
Sony Pictures Entertainment is fighting back

Sony Pictures is adopting various measures to contains damages including a “fighting back” activity against website that share the stolen data. We will talk about the Sony Pictures data breach for a long time, the cyber attacks conducted by the GOP hacking team is causing serious damages to the company. It is early to estimate the overall economic impact […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2014
Worm exploits Shellshock to infect QNAP systems

Security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm which exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Experts at Sans Institute have discovered a new series of attacks in the wild exploiting the Shellshock attack code to compromise disk storage systems made by the Taiwan-based QNAP firm. The threat actors used […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
SoakSoak Malware infected more than 100,000 WordPress Websites

Google blacklisted over 11000 domains that were infected with this SoakSoak malware which redirect user traffic and download malicious payloads on targets. WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) with more than 70 million websites on the Internet. For this reason, it is under continuous attack by threat actors that try to […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
Fixed a critical flaw in Blogger that allows to write posts on any blog

A security expert discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Blogger.com that allows an attacker to write posts in any blog hosted on the popular platform. The Egyptian security expert Mazen Gamal Mesbah (@MazenGamal) has discovered a critical CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability in the free weblog publishing tool Blogger.com. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to write posts […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
LogDog Internet Security Survey – November 2014

Mobile developers behind the Logdog app have conducted a rapid survey to analyze the trend in the hacking of accounts for the principal web services. A few weeks ago I was contacted by LogDog, a company that has developed is free protection app from hacking attacks and identity theft, the developer asked me to try the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 15, 2014
Stingray surveillance devices used to spy on the Norwegian Parliament

A newspaper discovers that bad actors are spying on cell phone communications of Norwegian politicians using the StingRay mobile surveillance equipment. The journalists of a daily newspaper in Norway have discovered a mobile phone surveillance equipment hidden around the Government and Parliamentary building and apparently there is no information on who has used it. Everyday we read about cyber […]