FireEye security firm released World War C report to explain nation-state motives behind advanced Nation-state driven cyber attacks. Nation-state driven cyber attacks are routinely conducted on a global scale to defend national sovereignty and project national power. We are living in the cyber era, human conflict is involving also the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace. As never […]
Thousands of WordPress based websites have been hacked to compose a global scale botnet that is performing powerful DDOS attacks. I start the post with recommendations, if you are a blogger using WordPress don’t waste time and update it and all installed plugins to the latest versions! Have you done it? OK, now I can explain you what it is […]
Group-IB Threat Intelligence Report 2012–2013 H1 is an excellent analysis on the state and dynamics of today’s market of computer crimes and cyber threats. Group-IB has recently issued an interesting report titled “Group-IB Threat Intelligence Report 2012 – 2013 H1” on the state and dynamics of today’s market of computer crimes and current cyber threats […]
The majority of financial service professionals considers Man In The Browser as the greatest threat to online banking, cybercrime increases its use. Man In The Browser attack, DDoS attacks, phishing are most insidious cyber threats against banking institutions. Last statistics proposed by principal security firms confirm that online banking is considered a lucrative business for […]
China hit by DDoS attack. The CINIC confirmed that the country suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours. During the weekend China’s Internet was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack, according to security experts behind the offensive there is a group of skilled hackers that on Sunday hit the […]
Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individuals and businesses, this appears to be the last trend observed for recent attacks against numerous US banks. The wire payment switch […]
ENISA issued the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012 on significant incidents in the electronic communications sector, which were reported to national regulators in 2012. ENISA published the ENISA Annual Incident Reports 2012, a document that provides an overview of the process and an aggregated analysis of the 79 incident reports of severe outages of electronic […]
The Indian security expert ‘Rahul Sasi’ found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow to gain Meterpreter shell or full access to the victim just sending an SMS. The Indian Security expert ‘Rahul Sasi‘ announced to have found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely simply sending an SMS […]
Researchers at Arbor Networks discovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs. A botnet called Fort Disco was used to compromised more than 6000 websites based on popular content management systems such as Joomla, WordPress and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is currently made […]
US Cloud hosting providers are chosen with increasing frequency as privileged targets of cybercrime, these platforms are ideal for the launch of cyber attacks financially motivated. Cloud hosting providers are becoming privileged targets of cybercrime, two malware researchers revealed in fact the number of cyber attacks financially motivated against those platforms is increasing. Mary Landesman, […]