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Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2014
Gang of Romanian and Moldovan crooks stole £1.6m from ATMs

A gang of criminals has stolen nearly £1.6m in raids on ATM (Automated Teller Machines) in UK. The group used a malware to compromise more than 50 ATMs. According to the police, a group of Romanian criminals has stolen nearly £1.6 million in series of jackpotting attacks. The technique of the jack spotting was presented for the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2014
ISIS issued a manual for a safe use of Twitter and other media

The ISIS has released a manual for its militants, titled “How to Tweet Safely Without Giving out Your Location to NSA”, that explain how avoid surveillance. Security and media consider the ISIS a group with great cyber capabilities, last news of the IS is related to the diffusion of a Training Guide for its members to prevent the NSA spying. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2014
Google Drive once again exploited in a sophisticated phishing attack

Cybercriminals and states-sponsored hackers are leveraging Google Drive site and other cloud storage to operate in a stealthy way and avoid detection. Cybercriminals and attackers are exploiting once again Google Drive infrastructure to avoid detection. The exploitation of Google Drive cloud storage by cyber criminals is not a novelty, a few days ago experts at […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2014
Bad actors are using Gmail Drafts to control their bots

Security company Shape Security discovered a new strain of malware which is exploiting Gmail service as a communication channel with control server. Security experts at Shape Security announced to have found a new strain of malware that implements a smart technique to communicate with command and control servers, the commands are hidden in unassuming Gmail drafts that are never even […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2014
Facebook Tor hidden service is online

The popular social network has launched the Facebook Tor hidden service to provide a method to use its site securely. Write down the onion address! We discussed many times about the right to online anonymity and how anonymizing networks like Tor could protect it. The Tor Project is an Internet-traffic anonymization service that is able to anonymize the Internet […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2014
The number of Keyless cars thefts is rising

According to a UK motoring industry group and authorities keyless cars ‘increasingly targeted by thieves, which are using computers e dedicated equipment. According to a UK motoring industry group, criminal organizations are increasingly targeting high-end cars with keyless security systems.  The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) confirmed that car thieves are using dedicated equipment to access […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2014
What is the CyberEurope2014 and why is it so important?

Which is the importance of the CyberEurope2014 organized by the ENISA? It is the largest and most comprehensive EU cyber-security exercise to date. Cyber security is considered today a pillar for the stability of any government, a growing number of cyber attacks every day hit private companies, government entities and critical infrastructure, these offensive appear even more […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2014
ASUS Wireless Routers RT Series updates vulnerable to a Man in the Middle attack

The security expert David Longenecker discovered that the update process for ASUS Wireless Routers RT Series is vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks.  The security expert David Longenecker discovered that ASUS Wireless Routers RT Series are vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. The researcher explained that that the routers download updates via HTTP without an encryption protocols as explained in the blog post by Longenecker. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2014
Drupal community under attack due to a critical SQL injection flaw

A security advisory issued by Drupal assumes that every installation of the popular CMS based in the version 7.x was compromised unless patched. Earlier this month, Drupal patched a critical SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2014-3704) that exists in all Drupal core 7.x versions up to the recently-released 7.32 version, which fixed the issue. There is an emergency in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2014
Voxis, the platform for automating rogue credit card charges is available in the underground

A group of cybercriminals is proposing in the underground an application for automating rogue credit card charges dubbed Voxis platform. The cyber criminal ecosystem has a new tool in its arsenal called Voxis, the Voxis Platform is a payment gateway application which can send batches of stolen card charges to multiple gateway processors automating their returns before acquiring banks […]