Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 27, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 18, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2013
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2013
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, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 10, 2013
An introduction of DDoS mitigation techniques focused on Cloud-based DDoS Mitigation solution, an approach implemented by many companies. Despite their prevalence, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks have been erroneously considered minor attacks by some parts of the security community due their “limited” duration. Victims of DDoS attacks are typically forced to interrupt their services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2013
New cyber attacks from Iran hit US enterprises focusing on energy sector, the offensive has been revealed by American officials and private security experts. A new series of cyber attacks from Iran hit US enterprises, the offensive has been revealed by American officials and private security experts. The attacks are classified as “potentially destructive” and targeted IT […]
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