Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2015
Jefferson National Parks Association discloses POS breach at Gateway Arch stores caused by a malware infection of the payments systems. Jefferson National Parks Association announced on Friday about malware found on Point-of-Sale (POS) Systems deployed by two gift shops named Gateway Arch located in St. Louis. So far, it has been confirmed that most of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2015
Gemalto has issued the 2014 Breach Level Index based on data gathered from publicly-available information about data breaches throughout the world. A new research published by Gemalto security firms reveals that more than 1 billion data records were stolen in more than 1,500 different data breaches last year. The company highlighted the significant increase in both corporate breaches and data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2015
Kaspersky discovered that a multinational gang of hackers dubbed Carbanak cybergang has stolen at least $300 million from 100 financial institutions. A group of cybercriminals used a malware to steal at least $300 million from banks and other financial institutions worldwide, according to a report published Saturday by The New York Times. The hackers have named […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2015
Which is the cost of personal data in the criminal underground? How cyber criminals steal personal data? Which is the cashout process? What is the underground economy? Put simply, the underground economy is a collection of forums, chat rooms and custom-made websites that are all designed to facilitate, streamline and industrialize cybercrime. It’s within these […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2015
In recent months Brazilian criminal crews have started using DNS poisoning technique to target Brazilian Boletos. Security experts at RSA reported that DNS poisoning attacks are being used by cybercriminals to target Brazilian Boletos. What is Boleto? People in Brazil use popular payment method known as “Boleto” to purchase services and products by using vouchers instead […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
A serious vulnerability in the FancyBox WordPress plugin makes it easy for a hacker to compromise any website based on the popular CMS. Last week SecurityWeek reported about another a zero-day flaw found in a WordPress plugin. This time, a new vulnerability found in the popular FancyBox for WordPress plugin could be exploited to inject […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2015
Researchers from Trend Micro discovered that unknown hackers have compromised Gas Pump Monitoring Systems in the US … it’s security emergency. Researchers at Trend Micro and many other security firms have observed a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against systems in oil and energy industries. Another worrying trend observed by the experts is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Security experts at Sophos spotted a new phishing campaign targeting iCloud users. The attackers are interested in the victims’ financial data. Sophos security firm reported that threat actors are running phishing campaign against Apple iCloud users to steal financial data. The messages sent by bad actors are tailored to appear as legitimate security alerts issued by Apple. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2015
Following the Anthem data breach, cyber criminals launched phishing campaigns to harvest customers’ personal information and credentials. A few hours after disclosure of the news of the data breach suffered by the nation’s second largest health insurer Anthem cyber criminals started sending phishing emails related to the cyber attacks. The Anthem incident could potentially impact millions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2015
A recent study published by RiskIQ security firm revealed that more than 11 percent of mobile banking apps includes harmful code. With the rapid spread of mobile banking services has increased significantly the number of cyber crimes targeting users of major financial institutions. According to an interesting research conducted by the company RiskIQ more than 11 […]
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