Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2015
Hackers have accessed details of 1,827 Vodafone customers

According to Vodafone UK, criminals used the stolen data obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts. Personal details belonging to roughly 2,000 Vodafone customers have been compromised. According to Vodafone, cyber criminals used the stolen data (emails and passwords) obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts between […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2015
How CoinVault or Bitcryptor victims could try to recover their files

Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2015
Second teen arrested in Connection with the TalkTalk breach

A few days after the arrest of 15-year-old in Northern Ireland, the British Police arrested a second in connection with the TalkTalk breach. There is a second arrest for the TalkTalk hack, the UK Police have arrested a second individual as part of the investigation into the recent data breach suffered by the company. Also in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2015
Chikdos cross-platform DDoS botnet hit SQL servers worldwide

Experts at Symantec have discovered a new variant of  the Chikdos DDoS-Trojan that is targeting MySQL servers worldwide. There is a malware in the wild that abuses MySQL Servers for DDoS Attacks, the experts named it Chikdos. The threat was detected for the first time by the Polland CERT and according to the experts it has […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2015
Iranian Hackers focus their efforts in Android RATs

A research published by RecordedFuture demonstrates that the interest in Android RATs of Iranian Hackers is rising, DroidJack and AndroRAT are most popular. According to the threat researcher Rodrigo Bijou (@rodrigobijou), Iranian malware authors are focusing their efforts on mobile RATs, in particular, malicious codes designed to compromise Android devices. The security experts confirmed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2015
Free Web Hosting 000Webhost hacked, 13 Million users impacted

Free Web Hosting 000Webhost company hacked, data belonging to more than 13 Million customers have been leaked online by the attackers. Another company has suffered a major data breach, this time in the headlines there is the world’s most popular Free Web Hosting company 000Webhost. The 000Webhost data breach has exposed more than 13.5 Million […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2015
Joomla SQL Injection Vulnerability exploited in the wild

Security experts at Sucuri reported a number of attacks exploiting a critical SQL injection flaw recently disclosed in the Joomla Content Management System. A few days ago, security experts disclosed a critical SQL injection vulnerability in the Joomla Content Management System (CVE-2015-7858), but as expected, threat actors in the wild are exploiting it in attacks against websites […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015
Dridex Botnets are still active and effective

The Dridex Banking Trojan has risen again despite the recent operation conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. Spam campaign relying on the Dridex malware continues to threaten banking users across the world despite the operations conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. We left Dridex malware spreading across the Europe, in particular targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2015
15-Year-Old has been identified and arrested for TalkTalk Attack

The UK Metropolitan Police announced to have arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses a 15-Year-Old alleged involved in the TalkTalk attack. The UK Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a 15-Year-Old in connection to the recent data breach suffered by the British ISP TalkTalk. Law enforcement from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2015
TalkTalk announced hackers have stolen ‘incomplete’ customer bank data

Hackers that recently breached the systems at TalkTalk IPS have stolen ‘incomplete’ customer bank data, states an official announcement issued by the firm. This week the TalkTalk Telecom Group plc has publicly disclosed that four million subscribers  have been impacted by a “sustained cyberattack” that hit its servers. On Friday, the TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding confirmed personally […]