Pierluigi Paganini
April 24, 2013
Verizon has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Verizon’s RISK Team, in collaboration with other 18 partners, has issued the “2013 Data Breach Investigations Report” that investigates on a series of documented data breaches. Since 2008 the company yearly publishes data related to principal incidents occurred during […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 23, 2013
In the last months of 2012 a group of hackers known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” conducted a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions including the U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. Security experts noted that the hackers adopted an anomalous strategy for the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2013
The Internet is full of news regarding malware more or less sophisticated that are used for various purposes, cybercrime, cyber espionage, hacktivism or cyber warfare but not all these agents demonstrated their efficiency over the time. This time thousands of UK companies have been targeted by a smart malware, dubbed “Magic Malware”, that has gone undetected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 17, 2013
Security worldwide community is alarmed by the explosion of number of cyber threats that are becoming even more sophisticated and are exploring new channel to infect a larger number of machines for various purposes, from cyber espionage to the realization of complex fraud. Antivirus company AVG has published an interesting study on games hacks that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 16, 2013
Cyber espionage is considerable as one of the most aggressive and dangerous cyber threats, its silent operation could steal sensitive information, company secrets and intellectual properties for a long time. Recently many cyber espionage campaigns have been discovered, last in order of time is the Winnti campaign but we cannot forted also Red October and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 12, 2013
Another cyber espionage campaign has been discovered by Kaspersky Lab Team, I start to get the feeling that whatever is done online we cannot avoid being spied. What is singular this time is the sector hit by the attackers, the gaming industry, that using a malware signed with a valid digital certificate has been used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2013
Not a day goes by that we’re talking about powerful cyber attacks and the sensational cyber espionage campaigns, the dangerous trend is also sustained by the increased offer of tools and services in the underground. Unfortunately the underground market is very dynamic and very difficult to monitor and to aggravate the situation is the leak […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2013
Last week was monopolized by the discussion on cyber attacks that hit North and South Korea, but I found a news equally stunning, researchers at Hungary-based CrySyS Lab have discovered a decade-long cyber espionage campaign that targeted high-level political and industrial entities in Eastern Europe. The attackers, dubbed by security researchers TeamSpy, used the popular remote-access […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2013
Many times we discussed about the fact that FinFisher was discovered in the wild, the use of popular spyware has been abused by governments and intelligence agencies all around the world. The spyware is for law enforcement and government use, but it seems to be preferred for those regimes that desire to monitor representatives of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2013
One of the leading computer security companies of Russia, Group-IB and its CERT (CERT-GIB), found that Android malware is available for sale by cybercriminals. With explosion of mobile market and increase of Android users, more devices can be infected by malware downloaded through Android Market or Google Play or from 3d party WEB-sites. “Nowadays it is […]
