Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2015
Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2015
The CSIS Security Group has spotted a new version of the notorious Carbanak Trojan in the wild targeting financial organizations in Europe and US. Do you remember the Carbanak gang? In February, researchers from Kaspersky discovered that a multinational gang of hackers dubbed Carbanak that swiped 1 Billion dollars from 100 financial institutions across 30 countries, most of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2015
Mozilla said that data stolen from its bug tracking system was used to attack Firefox users in the wild, but attackers probably have had access since 2013. A threat actor that stole sensitive vulnerability information from the Mozilla’s Bugzilla bug tracking system last year has likely used it to target Firefox users. Mozilla explained that it did […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2015
A new variant of Android ransomware relies on the instant messaging protocol XMPP to establish a communication with C&C servers. According to security researchers at Check Point Software Technologies a new Android ransomware disguised as a video player app implements a method of communication different from any other similar threat. This Android ransomware is different from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
A huge number of individuals are in danger because of massive attacks by Russian hackers, total 97 websites have been broken and most of them are dating sites. Security experts at Hold Security discovered that a significant amount of websites, including dating portals like the Ashley Madison, has been targeted by massive attacks managed by Russian hackers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Agora black marketplace announced Tuesday evening that it will go temporary offline fearing the exploitation of the Tor flaws recently discovered. Operators of principal black markets are concerned about the real level of anonymity offered by the Tor network after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities affecting the anonymizing system. The administrators of the Agora black market, one […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
PaloAlto and with WeipTech have identified 92 samples of a new iOS malware family in the wild dubbed KeyRaider that compromised over 225,000 Apple accounts. Palo Alto networks announced recently that a new iOS malware called KeyRaider allowed crooks to take over more than 225.000 apple accounts on jailbroken iOS devices. KeyRaider allows the attackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2015
Corebot is a new data stealer discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their solutions. Corebot is the name of a new data stealer malware discovered by the experts at IBM Security X-Force while they were analyzing some endpoints protected by their product, the Trusteer Apex […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 30, 2015
Six British teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attacking websites by using the Lizard Squad’s DDoS tool, the Lizard Stresser. Lizard Squad is the popular hacking crew that brought the online gaming networks Sony PlayStation Network and Microsoft Xbox Live with major Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. The hackers developed a tool dubbed Lizard Stresser that draws on Internet […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 28, 2015
The FBI published an alert on the significant increase of the Business Email Scams (BEC), the number of victims is growing such as the financial losses. Yesterday the FBI warned the world that Business Email Scams (BEC) victims are growing, making companies losing money. The law enforcement highlights that frauds use to start with crooks […]
