Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2013
Security firm Imperva revealed that more than 35000 websites based on vBulletin CMS have been hacked exploiting a known vulnerability. Security experts warn of a massive attack against web sites that exploits security flaw sites powered by the forum software vBulletin. On August vBullettin authors warned on “Potential vBulletin Exploit (vBulletin 4.1+, vBulletin 5+)”. The exploits […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2013
A pro-Palestinian group of hacktivists known as KDMS Team hacked also the two popular antivirus vendors Bitdefender and ESET. Th3 hacker Th3 J35t3r has discovered the identities of its members. A pro-Palestinian group of hacktivists known as KDMS Team has hit again, this time the victims of the successful attacks were the two popular antivirus vendors Bitdefender and ESET. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2013
HP sponsored a study of Ponemon Institute that reveals Cost of Cybercrime in 2013 escalates 78 Percent while Time to Resolve Attacks More Than Doubles. HP and the Ponemon Institute have published The 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study, the fourth annual report that provides an estimation of the economic impact of cybercrime. “Information is a powerful […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2013
The author of the Blackhole exploits kit has been arrested after a long investigation. What will change in the offer of the criminal underground? The author of the popular Blackhole exploit kit, also know as Paunch, has been arrested. The cybercrime underground has lost one of its principal actors considering that the malicious kit is one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2013
Symantec issued 2013 Norton Report, the annual research study which examines the consumers’ online behaviors, the dangers and financial cost of cybercrime. Symantec has released the 2013 Norton Report, the annual study of evolution of principal cyber threats in the security landscape. The study presented concerning results on the constant growth of cyber criminal activities. The 2013 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 08, 2013
What is an E-shop for iFramed traffic and how does cybercrime exploit it? In this post thanks to the investigation of the incredible Dancho Danchev I’ll try to answer to these questions. On numerous occasion I remarked the need to carefully observe the evolution of the underground market to identify dangerous trends that can leave portend a new wave of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 07, 2013
Internet of Things, a business growing at a compound annual rate of 7,9% that is a privileged target for hackers and cyber criminals. The Internet of Things refers all objects in daily life equipped with identifiers that allow their automatic inventory. Tagging of the Internet of Things could be achieved with various technologies such as the RFID, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 04, 2013
Adobe reveals customer data stolen in security breach, hackers have accessed sensitive information for 2.9 million users and to the source code of many products. Adobe Systems Inc has warned that customer data stolen in a security breach. According an official advisory, 2.9 million customers might have had their information stolen due a cyber attack that hit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 02, 2013
FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road and identified its owner. The site was producing earning for more than $1.2 billion in business. The FBI has closed the popular black market Silk Road after many years of investigation, the website hosted in the Tor Network was seized by US law enforcement. Last year a research made by the Carnegie Mellon […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2013
IT security firm F-Secure has published its Threat Report H1 2013, the document proposes a focus on Java exploits, mobile threats, Bitcoin mining, APTs and Mac malware. F-Secure security firm has released the Threat Report H1 2013 that provides an overview on cyber security landscape analyzing the events that characterized the first part of the year. The primary cause of incidents according the […]
