Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2016
Cloudflare firm has published a report that analyzes two recent attacks that were powered by large IoT botnets based on the Mirai Threat. The IoT botnets represent one the most dangerous threats in the security landscape, recently we have assisted to cyber attacks powered by these infrastructures that reached magnitude never seen before. The recent DDoS attacks powered […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2016
The users of the free version of the popular Spotify online music service have been served malicious advertisements. Spotify users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign, the malicious advertising served to the victims could automatically open a web browser and redirect victims websites hosting malware. Spotify is a popular online music service that allows its […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2016
The author of the FastPoS PoS malware issued an update that profoundly changes its behavior, preferring a quick exfiltration activity even if is noisier. Christmas is approaching, and the experts are already at work, including the authors of PoS malware that at that time maximize their profits. The criminal group behind the FastPoS PoS malware have updated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2016
A joint operation of international law enforcement agencies allowed the arrest of suspected Lizard Squad Hackers in the US and Netherlands. Law enforcement in the US and in the Netherlands have arrested last month two teenagers suspected of being members of the dreaded hacking groups Lizard Squad and PoodleCorp. Both hacking teams are known for powerful […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 06, 2016
Which are principal cities hostages of malicious botnets? Symantec has tried to reply the difficult questions with an interesting study. It is not a mystery, there is a strict link between cybercrime and Geography. Cyber criminal organization used different tactics and offer different products depending on the country where they operate. Russian criminal communities specialize in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2016
The notorious hacker Peace_of_Mind has hacked and defaced the official hacking and trading forum w0rm.ws and doxed its alleged owners. ‘Peace_of_Mind‘ (PoM) is a very active actor in The Real Deal Market and The Hell black markets, he offered for sale the dumps from clamorous data breaches, including Yahoo, LinkedIn and MySpace The w0rm.ws a famous hacking platform, it is an ‘invite only’ […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2016
A hacker released the source code of the Mirai malware that powered the record-breaking DDoS attack against the Brian Krebs Website, but … A couple of weeks ago the unknown hackers launched a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the website of the popular cyber security investigator Brian Krebs. Further investigation revealed the involvement of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 03, 2016
The UK Government confirms the opening of the UK first national anti-cybercrime centre, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). UK confirms to be one of the most advanced countries on cyber security and announce the imminent opening of the UK’s first national anti-cybercrime centre, the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The anti-cybercrime centre will open in London […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2016
Malware researchers from Kaspersky have spotted the TeamXRat gang spreading a new ransomware in Brazil via RDP brute-force attacks. Cyber criminals are using stolen or weak remote desktop credentials to access systems and deliver file-encrypting ransomware. This is not a novelty in the criminal ecosystem, in March experts discovered a ransomware dubbed Surprise that was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 01, 2016
According to a former Yahoo executive the number of affected user accounts in the Yahoo data breach may be between 1 Billion and 3 Billion. This summer 200 million Yahoo user accounts were offered for sale in a black market on the dark web. The company promptly started its investigation and last week confirmed the […]
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