botnet

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2012
On new generation of P2P botnets

Zeus is one of the longest-running malware that raged for months, appearing in various forms on the web thanks to the continuous changes made by the cybercrime industry. This time the news is really interesting, Symantec security researchers have detected a new variant of Zeus that not relies on command and control (C&C) servers for […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2012
The malware factory

Article Published on The Hacker New Magazine – June Edition “Malware” With the term malware we refer a heterogeneous family of malicious software designed with the purpose to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain unauthorized access to victims systems. With the term we indicate in fact several types of malicious code such as computer […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2012
McAfee Report on alarming growth of cyber threats

I find really interesting the report released by security firms regarding the principal cyber threats and the related evolution. This time I desire to share the data proposed in the by McAfee Labs in its McAfee Threats Report – First Quarter 2012. Let’s start observing that this first part of year have registered an impressive […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2012
Flashback Trojan, a business opportunity for all

Many people who do not work in our sector are asking me two questions with increasing frequency: Can a virus infect a MAC pc? Is it possible to monetize a malware development? How is it possible? Obvious my answers, we cannot think of a software system free of bugs and vulnerabilities. To those who I have […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2012
Flashback? Are you joking? There aren’t malware for Mac

Yesterday I discussed with a friend and colleague Francesco on the lack of awareness of Apple’s users on malware that plague products of the house in Cupertino. This consideration is one of the reasons of the success in malware development for Apple, the users totally ignore that Apple machines are equivalent to any other kind of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 16, 2012
DDoS, detailed analysis of the phenomenon

Last year we have observer an impressive grow of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks mainly related to operation arranged by group of hacktivists such as Anonymous. During a DDoS attacks multitude of compromised systems attack a single target causing denial of service for users of the targeted system. I desire to analyze with you the interesting results […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2012
Botnets and cyber warfare, a dangerous combination

The US Government is very close to the theme of warfare being among the countries that invest more in the field. In a cyber security context we can enumerate a huge quantity of cyber threats that daily are designed and enhanced, a heterogeneous world and that includes many different options that could harm military and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2012
Governments and gaming platforms, it’s time for warfare

The US government is financing several activities to investigate and hack into the technology spread in every device that ordinary surround us. This is the next step of the warfare, spy and attacks foreign enemy simply accessing to the devices that are presents in their offices, in their houses and in their cars. Every device […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2012
DNSChanger, FBI’s internet blackout postponed from 8 March to 9 July

Many people are asking me for updates on the case DNSChanger which held its breath many network users. During the last months the news circulating on internet on the planned blackout of Internet for million of users on 8 March decided by FBI to deal with cyber threats. The action must be done to stop […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 18, 2012
DNSChanger and the FBI’s internet blackout on 8 March

For several days the news circulating online about a planned blackout of Int the rnet for million of users on 8 March decided by FBI to deal with cyber threats. The enemy to fight is named DNSChanger Trojan, a malware that has infected milion of computers all over the world in more than 100 countries. The story begins […]