Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2015
Security firms discovered a significant increase in the number of targeted attacks aimed at stealing the code related trading algorithms. Cyber criminal organizations appear more interested in target trading algorithms, patents, trade secrets than other kinds of information, this is the new trend observed by security experts. Cyber criminals are increasing their activity against private […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2015
Onion.City the new search engine specialized for the black markets in the Deep Web simply accessible from a common browser. We have described several times the not indexed portion of the web known as the Deep Web, an impressive amount of content that the majority of netzens totally ignore. Deep Web is also known for the anonymity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 02, 2015
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Portsmouth revealed that over 80 Percent of Tor network visits is related to pedo sites. In the last couple of years a growing number of security experts are focusing their research on Darknet, a portion of the Deep Web often used by the criminal underground to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2014
The Tor network could be seriously impacted by the seizure of directory authorities operated by law enforcement, despite it is a precious resource for all. The overall architecture of Tor network relies on nine directory authorities locate in the Europe and United States. The servers working as directory authorities provide a signed list of all the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2014
The research revealed that more than 81 percent of Tor clients can be de-anonymized by exploiting a new traffic analysis attack based on Netflow technology. A team of researchers conducted a study between 2008 and 2014 on the de-anonymization of the Tor users, the team worked to disclose their originating IP addresses. A group led by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2014
The Digital Citizen’s Alliance provided an updating to the study which analyzes online black markets, focusing on the sales of illegal drugs. The cybercrime ecosystem has no limit, it is a prolific industry that evolves with time and is always full of new players as reported in a recent report published by the Digital Citizen’s Alliance. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2014
A new malvertising campaign has been spotted by experts at Fox-IT, the researchers discovered malicious ads on high-profile websites including Java.com. Experts at Fox-IT revealed in a blog post the Internet firm AppNexus is the origin of a new “malvertising” campaign, which is based on the Angler Exploit Kit to redirect visitors to malicious websites serving the Asprox malware. AppNexus provides a platform […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2014
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have issued data related to the number of RDP brute force attacks on its clients which show a worrying trend. In the June Kaspersky Lab has included in its products an Intrusion Detection System, which allowed the company to analyze  more information on going attacks on its clients. Kaspersky has issued the data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2014
Symantec discovered a new HTTP Android Remote administration tool, named Dendroid, available on the underground market for only $300. Symantec researchers have discovered a new android malware toolkit dubbed Dendroid, early 2014 the company also detected AndroRAT, an Android Remote admin tool which is believed to be the first malware APK binder. Thanks to the diffusion of the Google […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2014
Hold Security firm discovered more than 360 million newly stolen credentials and around 1.25 billion email addresses available for sale on the black market. The Hold Security firm has discovered a huge volume of data for sale on the online black market, it includes credentials from more than 360 million accounts and around 1.25 billion email addresses. […]
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