Pierluigi Paganini
June 05, 2015
US Government announced that a major data breach likely backed by Chinese hackers caused the exposure of data belonging to millions of government workers. Once again a data breach interested systems of the US government, the Obama administration on Thursday confirmed to have been the victim of a major cyber attack. According to the US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2015
A new Facebook scam in the wild that aim to steal sensitive data proposing a âFacebook Recoveryâ Accounts that share malicious links. It’s not new that Facebook itâs the perfect place to try to get precious information and financial gain since it aggregates many people, crossing all generations. The popular social network is very attractive […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2015
The APWG Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 seeks to understand what the phishers are doing, and how, by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published the “Global Phishing Survey 2H2014“, a report that comes with some interesting numbers on phishing activities. The Global Phishing Survey 2H2014 report states […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
ThreatConnect has conducted further investigations on the Rombertik malware and traced a malicious sample they analyzed to a Nigeria-based man. Lately Rombertik have been making the headlines of security related news, I wrote on SecurityAffairs about the malware a few weeks ago, last update from security researchers at ThreatConnect is that a new analysis traced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2015
Security experts discovered a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. A recent post published on http://blog.0x3a.com/ it was described a new njRat campaign using old tactics, making use of compromised websites as a third layer, communication proxy. Using FakeAV tactics was in vogue some years […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. The use of malicious Chrome extensions in the criminal ecosystem, so Google decided to restrict the use of extensions not available on the Chrome Web Store. With new policies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 01, 2015
US financial industry is under persistent attacks, the number of incidents that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of data are increasing. Financial industry in US maintains symptoms of persistent cyber-attacks among surprising cyber incidents and large-scale data breaches that compromised confidentiality, integrity and availability of userâs information. Several advanced hacking methods and the exploitation of zero-day flaws […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts to the public. Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts worldwide to the public. The “author” claims that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2015
The cyber security expert Michael Fratello has made a detailed analysis of the locker ransomware that implements a unique delivery mechanism On May 25th, 2015, a wave of reports came flooding in from users around the globe, claiming that their computers have become compromised. Messages from users looking for help began appearing on forums such […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2015
Linux/Moose is a malware family that targets Linux-based consumer routers turning them into social network bots to use for illegal activities. ESET released a study about a new malware known as Moose worm that is compromising devices that have a weak or default credentials. The principal target of the Moose worm are the linux-based routers, […]
