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Pierluigi Paganini January 04, 2015

CYBERPOL PUBLISHES THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CYBERBOK BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ON CYBER CRIME RISK MANAGEMENT

CYBERPOL PUBLISHES THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CYBERBOK BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ON CYBER CRIME RISK MANAGEMENT. The cyber crime body of knowledge is the application of risk management to cyber crime context in order to manage virtual space risk and vulnerabilities, i.e.: The business risk associated with the use of: cyber space, cybernet, e-cyber operation, virtual space […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2014

FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, Pyongyang wants a joint investigation

An announcement by the FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, but Pyongyang refused accusations and offered support for the investigation. The cyber attack against Sony Pictures is monopolizing the attention of the media, in particular, the problem of the attribution is hard to solve. The FBI released the findings of its investigation that definitively […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 24, 2014

Sony Pictures corporate network compromised by a major attack

The Sony Pictures corporate network was targeted by a major cyber attack that has brought off-line every computer within the company. The corporate network of Sony Pictures is reportedly breached and taken offline, the news was published on TheNextWeb website. Sony Pictures manages distribution of the Sony film and TV productions. The attackers breached the service this morning, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2014

Darkhotel – Cybercrime crew targets execs using hotel Internet

Kaspersky revealed that a crew of criminals dubbed Darkhotel targets executives traveling across Asia through hotel internet networks. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab uncovered the Darkhotel espionage campaign, which is ongoing for at least four years while targeting selected corporate executives traveling abroad. According to the experts, threat actors behind the Darkhotel campaign aim to steal sensitive data from executives while […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2014

An automated DDoS reflection attack tool used in the wild

A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm. For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of the firm Melbourne-based Micron21, the attack occurred on August 2nd. The experts […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2014

Compromised data of 27 million people South Korea. 70 percent of the population suffered a data breach.

Authorities confirmed that 27 million individuals in South Korea suffered a data breach, nearly 70 percent of the population aged between 15 and 65 was hit. A new massive data breach hit more that 27 million people in South Korea, according to the authorities stolen data comes from the gaming industry. It isn’t the first time that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2014

Fake Android WeChat app used to spread banking trojan in China

Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new banking trojan, dubbed Banker.AndroidOS.Basti.a, hidden in a fake WeChat application. Cyber criminals are abusing of the brand WeChat, the popular mobile application designed by Chinese company Tencent, to arrange a malware campaign which hit Chinese users. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have discovered that cybercriminals are using an […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2014

Facebook ‘Naked Video’ scam hits 2 million users

Security Experts at Bitdefender discovered a clickjacking Naked Video scam that already infected more that 2 millions Facebook users. Sex and social media is a dangerous mix abused by cyber criminals to hit a large number of users of most popular social networks. In the last couple of years the number of illicit activities on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2014

SOHO pharming attack hit more that 300,000 devices worldwide

Researchers at Team Cymru published a detailed report on a large scale SOHO pharming attack that hit more that 300,000 devices worldwide. Another mass compromise of small office/home office (SOHO) wireless routers has been uncovered by researchers from security firm Team Cymru. The hackers adopted different techniques to exploit the numerous flaws discovered in the last months […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2014

CERT POLSKA detected large-scale DNS hacking on home routers

Attackers changed the DNS configuration of vulnerable home routers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks on a large scale against Polish online banking users. The Polish Computer Emergency Response Team has documented a series of cyber attacks observed in Poland involved cybercriminals hacking into home routers and changing their DNS settings so they can conduct MITM attacks on […]

Cyber Crime

CYBERPOL PUBLISHES THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CYBERBOK BODY OF KNOWLEDGE ON CYBER CRIME RISK MANAGEMENT

FBI stated the North Korea hacked Sony Pictures, Pyongyang wants a joint investigation

Sony Pictures corporate network compromised by a major attack

Darkhotel – Cybercrime crew targets execs using hotel Internet

An automated DDoS reflection attack tool used in the wild

Compromised data of 27 million people South Korea. 70 percent of the population suffered a data breach.

Fake Android WeChat app used to spread banking trojan in China

Facebook ‘Naked Video’ scam hits 2 million users

SOHO pharming attack hit more that 300,000 devices worldwide

CERT POLSKA detected large-scale DNS hacking on home routers

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