Securi security firm detected a new sophisticated  Apache backdoor used to hijack traffic  to malicious website serving the popular Blackhole exploit kit. Securi security firm detected a new sophisticated  Apache backdoor used to hijack traffic to malicious website serving the popular Blackhole exploit kit. The company published a blog post describing the new Apache backdoor that according […]
The charge is heavy, according to some experts, Nokia analyzes userâs traffic officially to increase performance compressing data on some of its mobile devices. According many experts the popular company is responsible of the hijacking of userâs traffic on its servers, that is the case for the Nokia Asha models, for this reason on internet […]
The news is circulating for days, the Iranian head of the national security forces , Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, declared that low enforcement  of the country is developing a software for “smart control” of social-networking sites, the authorities have understood that the control of the powerful platforms is more important filtering. Moghadam exposed the consideration made […]
The ways explored by malware creators are unlimited, recently Symantec has announced the discovery of a new operational mode for backdoor trojan Makadocs, the security firm has in fact reported that a variant of malware hides its command-and-control (C&C) server communications using a legitimate Google Docs function. Backdoor.Makadocs is a Trojan horse that opens a […]
Last May The Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team (MAHER) detected a new targeted malware which hit the country, that has been named Flame, also known as Flamer or Skywiper, due the name of  its main attack module. MAHER wasnât the only one to detect the agent, also Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab identified the new dangerous malware, recognized […]
The malware diffusion is assuming dimension difficult to control, no matter if we are facing with a state-sponsored attack or with a cyber scam, malicious agents are around us, they have infected a huge quantity of machines with dramatic consequences. But what’s happen if we discover the malware inside the controller of ordinary object that […]
No doubts, one of the most advanced cyber threat to the technological evolution is the malware diffusion, we read daily news regarding new unknown agents developed by cybercriminals, governments or hacktivists, but are we really ready to reduce the exposure of our resources? Some weeks ago a news has passed without too much noise but […]
Many experts are sure, the new horizons of intelligence are in the social media and in the ability to control them. Governments are more careful on the analysis of social media and the vast amount of information which they hold. Intelligence agencies have learned that Social networks and forums are exceptional instruments for information gathering […]
Every day we read about new powerful variants of malware of increasing complexity, they are used in fraud schemas by cyber criminals and in cyber attacks during state sponsored operations in cyber warfare scenarios. This malicious software presents a wide range of purposes and functionalities, they are used to steal information or to destroy control […]
We daily assist to continuous violations to user’s privacy, mobile apps that expose its data, communication channels apparently secure that reveals law enforcement interferences or network devices suspected to contains a secret backdoor. The imperative is the monitoring of users, for commercial and national security purposes, we have read in many occasions of the development […]