Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2014
Security experts involved in the investigation on the JPMorgan breach revealed that hackers exploited the lack of 2FA to compromise a server in the network. JPMorgan suffered months the biggest U.S. banking breach of all time, and now The New York Times provided more information on the case citing sources close to the experts involved in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2014
Sophos and ESET detected the first self-reproducing polymorphic Ransomware dubbed Virlock that encrypts files and creates unique instances of itself. Security researchers from Sophos and ESET security firms have discovered a new interesting trend in the evolution of ransomware. The new strain of ransomware, dubbed VirRansom or VirLock, discovered by the experts is able to encrypt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2014
Security researchers discovered a criminal crew called Anunak that has already stolen $17 million from banks, retailers and others firms since 2013. Security companies Group-IB and Fox-IT have conducted a joint investigation on a cyber espionage group called called Anunak, which has been targeting banks and payment systems in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States countries, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
A new strain of Zeus Trojan dubbed Chthonic has been discovered in the wild targeting more than 150 banks and 20 payment systems mainly in Europe. Experts believe they have seen everything about the Zeus trojan, P2P versions, versions that infect SaaS, agents that exploit the Tor network or that recruit money mules … then […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
Experts at Dell Secure Works Counter Threat Unit (CTU) published a new report on the evolution of the hacking underground marketplaces. The monitoring of black hat markets is one the principal activities of security experts and intelligence agencies, it allows information gathering on evolution of cyber threats and emerging trends in the criminal ecosystem. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2014
The ICANN organization confirmed that several its systems were compromised via Spear Phishing attack. The company is investigating the case. ICANN revealed the details of a recent spear phishing attack that allowed unknowns to access its network. The attackers spoofed the ICANN domain, and deceived internal staff into revealing their email credentials. The ICANN is the organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2014
Security experts at Sans Institute discovered a worm which exploits the popular Shellshock flaw to compromise QNAP systems in the wild. Experts at Sans Institute have discovered a new series of attacks in the wild exploiting the Shellshock attack code to compromise disk storage systems made by the Taiwan-based QNAP firm. The threat actors used […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2014
Google blacklisted over 11000 domains that were infected with this SoakSoak malware which redirect user traffic and download malicious payloads on targets. WordPress is one of the most popular content management system (CMS) with more than 70 million websites on the Internet. For this reason, it is under continuous attack by threat actors that try to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2014
Security experts at Zscaler discovered a pirated version of the Assassin Creed mobile app for Android that was used to spread a malware. Security experts at Zscaler discovered a trojanized and pirated version of the popular Assassin Creed application for Android platform. Assassin Creed is one of the most popular paid video games, available for almost […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2014
A group of hackers claims to have compromised the national database system stolen all information related to citizens resident in Serbia. Hackers claim to have data about all citizens in Serbia, if the news is confirmed this is another clamorous data breach that could have serious repercussion on the Government. It seems that cyber criminals hacked […]
