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Pierluigi Paganini June 04, 2016
Pro-ISIS Hackers Have Been Flexing Their Muscles – But Is There Any Real Cause For Concern?

Lion Caliphate, of Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) and United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) notoriety, briefly left Facebook last week but returned as Lion Back. Lion Caliphate, of Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) and United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) notoriety, briefly left Facebook last week but returned with a new name– Lion Back. Site Intel Group, which tracks numerous hacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2016
Windows zero-day offered for sale in a crime forum for $90,000

The researchers from the Trustwave’s Spiderlabs team discovered that a Windows zero-day is available for sale in a popular crime forum for $90,000. A Windows zero-day flaw was offered for sale at US$90,000 on the Russian crime forum exploit.in. The flaw could be exploited by hackers to gain a full deep access to an already compromised […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2016
Hacker Interviews – Claudio Nex Guarnieri

Hacker interview – Today I have the honor to interview Claudio Guarnieri, aka Nex, one of the most talented hackers and security researchers. Claudio is known as one of the most active civil rights advocate, he is known for his researchers at the Citizenlab, he is creator of the @cuckoosandbox and @malwr. Enjoy the interview! Hi Claudio, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2016
What is a SOC (Security Operations Center)?

What is a SOC? What is its mission? Which are the Security tools and technology components of a SOC? Here come all the answers. A definition What is a SOC? A Security Operations Center (SOC) is an organized and highly skilled team whose mission is to continuously monitor and improve an organization’s security posture while […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2016
Cyberespionage against RUAG, from Red October to Turla, who is the culprit?

Security experts from Melani published a detailed technical report about the strain of Turla used in the cyberespionage attack against the RUAG firm. A few weeks ago I reported about the cyber espionage attack on the Swiss Defense Department that was revealed after a presentation on cyber espionage to the Federal Intelligence Service. The cyber attack […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016
Journalists get scammed trying to buy an AK47 in the Dark Web

Producers from the German broadcaster ARD have conducted an interesting experiment to demonstrate how to buy a weapon on the dark web. When journalists write about the black markets hosted on the dark web always describe these places as crucial aggregators where it is possible to buy any kind of illegal product and service. A keyboard, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 61 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that I’m one of the finalists for the best European Security Blog, please vote for SecurityAffairs in all the sessions it is mentioned. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/secbloggerwards2016 #securityaffairs Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2016
Phineas Fisher hacked a bank to support anti-capitalists in the Rojava region

Phineas Fisher, the notorious Hacking Team hacker, stole $10,000 from a bank and donated the equivalent in Bitcoin to Kurdish anticapitalists in Rojava. Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR), revealed on Reddit that he breached a bank and turned the stolen money to a Kurdish anti-capitalists that operate in the Rojava autonomous region. The region in located in the north of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
Watson Is Getting Ready from IBM to Deal with Hackers

IBM has targeted hackers, bringing Watson (its computer brain) in the game, with the help of eight prominent US universities IBM’s computer brain, or else Watson, has been known to multitask, already involved in fighting cancer and cooking and so many other things. Right now, the focus of IBM has been placed towards dealing with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. These cyber attackers are employing the same tactics used to hack online banks and retailers. […]