Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2015
The Turkish security researchers Utku Sen has published the first open source ransomware for educational purposes that anyone can use. Ransomware is now open Source and available in GitHub. Ransomware is one of most dangerous cyber threats for end-users, in the recent months the number of ransomware in the wild is increased as never before. Criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 13, 2015
Carphone Warehouse disclosed a sophisticated attack that may have impacted more than 2.4 million customers. Attackers covered the breach with DDoS attacks. On Saturday Carphone Warehouse (CW) was reportedly swamped by hackers than may have accessed personal and financial details of around 2.4 million customers according to the mobile retailer. The data breach affects customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2015
Security experts at Kaspersky Lab recently observed a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users to distribute Financial Trojan. Recently security experts have seen old tricks rising from the dead (like for example word/excel macros attachment in e-mails) and malicious VBE files are being spread via email targeting Brazilian users. These VBE files […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2015
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) are joining their efforts in the fight against child sexual abuse. Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo are joining their effort in the fight against child sexual abuse. The IT giants child after joining forces with a the UK charity, the Internet Watch Foundation […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 08, 2015
Mozilla released the version 39.0.3 Firefox to patch a critical 0-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. A zero-day vulnerability in Mozilla FireFox was reported on Wednesday to the company. A user noticed that an ad displayed on a Russian news website was serving an a malicious code. The exploit discovered by the user […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 06, 2015
The ICANN has issued a warning to inform who registered with ICANN.org that their profile accounts were accessed by an “unauthorized person.” The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has issued another security warning after login credentials of the ICANN.org website have been compromised. A new incident occurred to the ICANN (Internet Corporation for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
Police officers from dozen countries have just completed the first training program on Darknets, Tor hidden services and illegal marketplaces. Cybercrime becomes even more sophisticated and explores new technologies for its illegal activities. A growing problem for law enforcement agencies world worldwide is to track illegal activities in the Dark Web. Not only cyber criminals, but also groups […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
Version 3.0 of the RIG exploit kit has been released with new significant improvement. It has already infected more than 1.3 million PC worldwide. Early 2015, part of the source code for the 2.0 version of the RIG exploit kit was leaked online due to a dispute between the main developer and a reseller. According […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. Hackers requested a $15,000 ransomware. Hackers are raising the bar, one of the most popular Antivirus firms BitDefender has been hacked and data belonging to its customer have been leaked online. The data breach highlighted serious security issues in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2015
Experts at Trend Micro discovered that cyber criminals are exploiting the popular Angler Exploit kit to find and infect PoS systems. The popular Angler Exploit kit is used by criminal crews to find and infect PoS systems, this is the last disconcerting discovery made by the experts at Trend Micro. The security researcher Anthony Joe […]
