Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2014
iSIGHT Partners firm uncovered a Russian hacking team dubbed Sandworm that was running a cyber espionage campaign on NATO and other Government entities. According to a new report issued by the cyber security firm iSIGHT Partners a group of Russian hackers has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2014
The WAAR report issued by Imperva states that Web Attacks increasingly launched from Amazon servers, the overall number of attacks is also increasing. Cloud computing is considered an amazing opportunity for cybercrime, from the perspective of an attacher these powerful architectures have the necessary resources to conduct powerful attacks, and consider also that often the data archived in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2014
FireEye CEO David DeWalt explained that threat actors are targeting IT giants for source code and highlighted the importance to adopt new security model. Phishing is a common practice in the hacking community, despite the level of awareness of the threat is high, the efficiency of the attacks is still significant. As highlighted in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 12, 2014
Experts at Radware DDoS protection solution provider recently have discovered a new form of DDoS attack they dubbed “Tsunami SYN Flood Attack.” Radware DDoS protection solution provider recently discovered a new category of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, according the experts of the company it is a type of SYN flood dubbed “Tsunami SYN Flood Attack.” In just 48-hour period […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2014
A document on NCR ATM API Documentation disclosed on Baidu may have helped criminals to develop malware used in the recent attacks against ATMs worldwide. Recently Kaspersky Lab spotted a series of attacks on ATM machines which were infected by the Tyupkin malware, the malicious code is used by criminal organizations to compomise the banking machines […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2014
Security expert Boris Mutina made an analysis of IT Security landscape, highlighting critical trends and suggesting a proactive approach to cyber security The world of IT security was recently shocked by the Bash Bug vulnerability and I believe that none of the readers do need to explain the impact of this vulnerability. We are in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2014
Proofpoint firm uncovered a malicious campaign run by the Northern Gold criminal group which is targeting online banking users with a botnet of 500,000 PCs . Security experts at Proofpoint firm have identified a Russian-speaking cybercrime gang, dubbed Northern Gold, that has compromised more than 500,000 machines worldwide to steal users’ online credentials for major banks in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2014
Criminal gangs have stolen millions of dollars from ATMs worldwide using the Tyupkin malware which forces machines to dispense cash. Criminal gangs in Eastern Europe are increasing the number of attacks against automated teller machines (ATMs), not only tampering the machine with card skimmers which steal debit card data, but also using malware. The malicious code used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2014
The Fappening 4 – The fourth wave of nude celebrity photos hacked from the iCloud system was leaked online, new stars victimized including a male. A new episode of the Fappening Saga is out, online comes the fourth archive (the Fappening 4), of celebrity nude photos leak, and for the happiness of women the collection includes the photos […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2014
The security expert Jonathan Hall found evidence that a gang of Romanian Hackers exploited the Bash Bug flaw to hack Yahoo servers. The Security researcher Jonathan Hall, president of IT consulting firm Future South Technologies, said that a gang of Romanian hackers exploited the Shellshock vulnerability to gain access to Yahoo servers, and Yahoo! has confirmed the violation […]
