Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2014
Symantec experts demonstrated how to rob ATMs using a mobile device and sending a couple of SMS. Cybercriminals are increasing sophistication of attacks. What will happen after that Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system on 8th April? The question was approached by numerous security experts on different media. The impact could be […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2014
A group of researchers discovered a series of 6 vulnerabilities, dubbed Pileup flaws, in Android PMS that exposes more than 1 Billion Google-based devices. Android is the mobile OS that most of all attracts cyber criminals due its capillary diffusion, recently security experts have discovered new malware families targeting the platform and hackers have found numerous vulnerabilities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2014
Cisco observed 400 hosts were infected on daily base and more than 2,700 URLs have been used in a multistage attack against websites running older OS versions. In the last months a growing number of large-scale attacks hit systems all over the world, many of them, like the Snake campaign, are attributable to state-sponsored hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 24, 2014
Researchers at Sensepoint have realized a software that could be used to turn a drone in a perfect spying machine able to steal data from mobile devices. The rapid diffusion of drones for civil uses raises serious security issues, we discussed in the past the risks related to hacking of so powerful machines, but there is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 22, 2014
Security analysts at SenceCy which are monitoring the advancement of a new Zorenium Bot discovered that it is able to infect also iOS devices. Security analysts at SenceCy are monitoring the evolution for the Zorenium Bot, a new and unknown malware which has been advertised in the underground since January 2014. This is the third […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2014
Danchev profiling a service which proposes more than 5M harvested mobile phone numbers has discovered a fraudulent architecture used for illicit purposes. Cybercrime has targeted mobile industry more than ever, the number of attacks is on the rise and the proposal in the underground of tools and services for mobile market is rapidly growing. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2014
FireEye experts investigating on a spear-phishing campaign on an US-based financial institution discovered that common WinSpy RAT was adapted to hit Android devices. FireEye Security Researchers have recently identified a new variant of Winspy RAT that can infect users’ PC and also their Android Devices during synchronization operations. We have a long discussed about the increment for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2014
Antivirus Firm ESET has been tracking and investigating the operation behind Linux_Ebury uncovering a sophisticated campaign called Operation Windigo. Operation Windigo is the name of a sophisticated malware-based campaign uncovered by security Experts at ESET, that exploiting the Linux/Ebury backdoor has impacted more 500,000 computers and 25,000 dedicated servers. ESET Researchers collaborated with CERT-Bund, the European Organization […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2014
Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated. Principal security firms and CERTs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2014
Sucuri firm detected a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. The security community is threatened by a new botnet composed at least 162,000 WordPress-powered websites abused to run DDoS attacks. The technique of attack allows to flood a target with requests sent by WordPress servers that received a […]
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