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Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 56 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Security experts shut down the dreaded Linux Mumblehard botnet Cyber Justice Team claims a massive Data Leak from the Syrian Gov Security Affairs newsletter Round 55 – News of the week Be careful Amazon is selling products […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2016
JBOSS Backdoor opens 3 million servers at risk of attacks

Experts at Cisco Systems discovered more than 3 million vulnerable servers exposed on the Internet while scanning for the presence of JBOSS Backdoor According to Cisco Systems, more than 3 million servers exposed on the Internet are potentially open to Samsam ransomware-based attacks because they’re running vulnerable software. Attackers are targeting vulnerabilities in servers to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2016
Mapping the Dark Web searching for illegal content

Recently the intelligence firms Intelliagg and Darksum have issued an interesting report on the Dark Web and related mapping. We have discussed several times about Deep Web and Dark Web, discussing the reason why the hidden part of the web is even more dangerous. However the darknets aren’t a prerogative of criminal organizations, a good portion […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 11, 2016
What are Panama Leaks and how huge they are?

The Panama Leaks are an unmatched leakage of 11.5M data from the data source of the globe’s 4th most significant overseas law office, Mossack Fonseca. The Panama Leaks were acquired from a confidential resource by the German paper Süddeutsche Zeitung, which discussed them with the International Consortium of Investigative Reporters (ICIJ). The ICIJ after that […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 55 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs The website of the Hungarian Government temporarily shut by cyberattack CloudFlare considers 94 percent of the Tor traffic as per se malicious Security Affairs newsletter Round 54 – News of the week Hacking connected lightbulbs to breach […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 07, 2016
TA530 group, spear phishing meets ransomware

A threat actor named TA530 group, has been targeting executives in an attempt to infect their machine with various malware, including ransomware. Ransomware continues to represent one of the greatest threat for the Internet users, the FBI recently issued a confidential urgent “Flash” message to the businesses and organizations about the Samsam Ransomware. Security firms […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 04, 2016
US and UK Will Simulate a Cyber Attacks on nuclear plants in 2016

US and UK are planning to simulate a cyber attacks on nuclear plants, to test their resilience in the light of the nuclear security summit. In the light of the recent events with the terrorist attacks in Europe, the fear of other similar threats becomes greater by the minute. Coordinates cyber attacks on nuclear plants would […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
Terrorists and dark web, what is their relationship?

A new study reveals that terrorist organizations are largely uninterested in using resources and services hosted on the dark web. Every day I receive a lot of requests about terrorist activities in the Dark Web, and contrary to what you might think anonymizing networks like Tor and I2P aren’t cyber places preferred by terrorist organizations. My […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2016
Nuclear Plants in Germany Are Vulnerable to Terrorism Threats

According to a recent report, Germany nuclear plants are vulnerable to terrorists and there needs to be some serious dealing with this problem. According to a recently released report, Germany is not adequately equipped to prevent terrorist attacks in its nuclear plants. According to the Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) news agency, the report was presented by Oda Becker, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2016
Japan – Police discovered 18 Million Stolen login Credentials

Japan – The police has found on a server of a company more than 18 million login credentials, 90% of which belongs to customers of Yahoo Japan. The Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the president and a number of employees at the Tokyo-based Nicchu Shinsei Corp in November. […]