Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Lizard Squad claims to have hacked also Sony PlayStation Network that suffered a DDoS attack. A week ago the hacking team known as the Lizard Squad brought down the Xbox Live online service with a DDoS attack. Microsoft users were not able to access the online platform for several hours, the service has several problems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Trend Micro has analyzed the diffusion of Crypto-Ransomware in the EMEA Region, such attacks are very effective and Italy is in the Top infected countries. The holiday season is the period of the year in which cybercrime appears more active because it is advantaged by a fervid online activity of the Internet users. This is the period of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2014
Xbox Live online service was not available for the second time in a few days due to a new DDoS attack by the Lizard Squad hacking team. Just a week ago the hacking team Lizard Squad has hit the Xbox Live service with a DDoS attack that caused its interruption. The Microsoft’s Xbox Live servers were not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 06, 2014
A non-public report realized by the US Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers exploits the anonymizing the Tor network. A report from the U.S. Treasury Department found that a majority of bank account takeovers by cyber criminals, affected organizations over the past decade, exploited the anonymizing Tor network. The news is shared by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2014
The number of Pre-loaded mobile trojan in the wild is increasing, DeathRing is the last one discovered by the experts at Lookout firm. It’s not first the time that Android handsets come preloaded with malware, but cyber security experts are warning of a worrying increase of the cases. The problem is widespread in Asia and Africa, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2014
TrendLabs has analyzed the Destructive malware mentioned in the FBI warnings recently issued and they have linked it to cyber attack against Sony Pictures. Researchers at TrendLabs announced that they have identified the strain of malware that appears to have been used in the cyber attack against Sony Pictures systems by GOP (Guardians of Peace). The hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 04, 2014
The Sony Pictures Hack was even worse than everyone thought, the hackers have also stolen more than 25 gigabytes of sensitive data. More details are emerging from the investigations on the data breach at the Sony Pictures, the hack has caused much more that the distribution online of pirated movies because a batch of sensitive employee […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
Xbox Live online service was not available overnight after hackers belonging to the Lizard Squad hacking team hit it with a DDoS attack. Last night the Microsoft Xbox Live’s online service was interrupted, after Sony Pictures another company suffered a major cyber attack. This time the Xbox Live service was hit by a severe DDoS attack that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2014
Security researcher Billy Rios has created WhiteScope, a database containing hundreds of thousands of “known-good” files of SCADA and ICS software. The cyber security expert Billy Rios has created WhiteScope, a database containing hundreds of thousands of “known-good” files from makers of SCADA and ICS software with the intent to support users to identify legitimate ICS/SCADA files. “WhiteScope has over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2014
The popular cyber security expert Raoul Chiesa commented the hypothesis that backdoor Regin is a product of organized cybercrime. Excerpt from a detailed analysis published on the Infosec Institute In this phase it is quite impossible to attribute precisely the development of the Regin malware to a specific category of threat actors. Until now we […]
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