Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2014
Danco Danchev profiled a new TDoS product sold in underground based on 3G USB modem/GSM/SIM card, cybercrime is increasing its interest in such attacks. When I desire to explore new DIY (Do It Yourself) tools I always refer Dancho Danchev, one of the most skilled experts of cybercrime ecosystem and underground market. Today I desire […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2014
Kaspersky experts discovered a java version of icefog espionage campaign that targeted at least 3 us oil, gas companies spreading a backdoor dubbed Javafog. Kaspersky Lab in September 2013 announced to have discovered Icefog team, an emerging group of cyber-mercenaries available for hire to conduct surgical hit and run operations against strategic targets. The cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2014
Internet of Things, a business growing at a compound annual rate of 7,9%, which are the principal cyber threats to the popular paradigm? Another week is starting and this morning the topic that I’ve found everywhere is Internet of Things (IoT), it is a growing paradigm that will influence our life in the next future, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2014
Neiman Marcus retailer confirmed a data breach, it is the second case in a few weeks after data breach at US retailer Target discovered Brian Krebs. The high-end retailer Neiman Marcus confirmed a data breach that could represent a risk its customers, the incident occurs a few weeks after the clamorous data breach at US […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2014
The giant US retailer Target announces that the extent of the credit-card leak was even bigger, further 70 million customers are victims of the data breach. We all remember the holiday attack against the US giant retail Target, a data breach that exposed millions of customers’ data. The attackers accessed to names, mailing addresses, phone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2014
One of the largest communities of Eastern Europe cybercriminals “Verified” was hacked, more than 18,894 bad actors revealed after several hours. According to sources at IntelCrawler, cyberintelligence firm from Los Angeles, the largest community of Eastern Europe cybercriminals “Verified” was hacked several hours ago. The hackers hit the online community stealing member information and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2014
Dutch security firm Fox IT discovered an ongoing malware-based attack that hit thousands of Yahoo users via malicious ads. Users are alerted. Since the December 30th Yahoo website is proposing a malicious ad that was serving a malware, the discovery was made by Dutch security firm Fox IT. Visitors to the Yahoo website see the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 04, 2014
Security researchers at Symantec have spotted a series of Network Time Protocol (NTP) reflection DDoS attacks during the Christmas Holidays. DDoS attacks are very simple methods of offence that could cause serious problems to targeted systems, behind the word DDoS there are numerous techniques that could be exploited by attackers to reach their goals. Last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 03, 2014
Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]
