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Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2017
The Federal Bureau of Investigation report reveals that Business email compromise scams caused losses to businesses for 5 billion dollars over four years. Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a profitable attack technique for crooks and a serious threat to businesses. The FBI has published data related to this specific criminal practice, and financial […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2017
Travel giant Sabre investigating a data breach that could have exposed payment and customer data tied to bookings processed through its reservations system. Another day, another data breach, this time the victim is the Travel Tech Giant Sabre that in a SEC filing confirmed it is “investigating an incident involving unauthorized access to payment information contained in a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 21, 2017
Security firm Flashpoint published an interesting paper titled, ‘Cybercrime Economy: An Analysis of Cybercriminal Communication Strategies‘ about cybercriminal communications of threat actors. A recent research by the threat intelligence firm Flashpoint has uncovered how malicious threat actors communicate to share information between them. The research has found out that there is a growing economy in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2017
Cyber criminals exploited the recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerability CVE-2017-5638 in the wild to deliver the Cerber ransomware. A recently patched Apache Struts 2 vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-5638, has been exploited by crooks in the wild to deliver the Cerber ransomware. The remote code execution vulnerability affected the Jakarta-based file upload Multipart parser under Apache […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2017
A series of phishing campaigns is targeting airline consumers with messages crafted to trick victims into handing over personal or business credentials. A wave string of phishing campaigns is targeting airline consumers with messages crafted to trick victims into handing over personal or business credentials. The phishing messages pretend to be sent from a travel agency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html · Arbor Networks linked a new Acronym Malware to the Potao Express campaign · Security Affairs newsletter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2017
US federal prosecutors speculate the involvement of North Korea in the cyber heist of $81 million from Bangladesh’s account at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The news was reported by The Wall Street Journal, prosecutors suspect the involvement of Chinese middlemen who helped the Government of Pyongyang to organize the cyber theft. In February 2016, unknown hackers transferred […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2017
Assange sent an email to tech firms including “a series of conditions” that they need to fulfill before gaining access to details included in the Vault 7. A couple of weeks ago Wikileaks published the Vault 7 archive, a huge trove of files detailing CIA hacking tools and capabilities. The files allegedly originated from a high-security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2017
Turkey vs Holland – Hackers launched a massive hacking campaign that hijacked hundreds of High-Profile Accounts to spread political messages against Holland. A huge number of high-profile Twitter accounts have been hijacked following the recent diplomatic crisis between Turkey and the Netherlands. The hackers posted through many Twitter accounts political messages in the Turkish language including a link […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2017
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all, let me inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html · Metasploit team released Metasploit Vulnerable Services Emulator · Security Affairs newsletter Round 102 – News of […]
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