Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2012
Last week the hacker group known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” announced a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions publishing a message on Pastebin profile. The principal targets include organizations such as U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. In the period between the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2012
During the last week introduced you the excellent work done by the Group-IB, a security firm resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system named the CyberCop. It was for me the opportunity to receive many interesting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2012
It’s time of analysis for the past year and forecasts on what will be the main cyber threats for next year, F-Secure Labs proposed the following Top 7 Predictions for 2013: The end of the Internet as we know it? Leaks will reveal more government-sponsored espionage tools Commoditization of mobile malware will increase Another malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2012
On September 2012 the German security firm G Data Software detected a botnet with a particular feature, it is controlled from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service of the Tor. There are pro and cons for this design choice, of course the greatest advantage resides in the difficulty for the localization of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 20, 2012
Hacktivism attacks will not change Israeli policy but for sure their operations could represent a dangerous cyber threat for any government. Anonymous has started a cyber offensive against Israel to protest for the attacks on Gaza, the hacktivists have defaced and taken offline hundreds of websites, such as The Jerusalem bank and Israel’s Ministry of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2012
Concerned over rising threats online, Cyber security agents in Africa are taking a proactive step by collaborating with global network-security experts, to curb cybercriminal activities in the continent where they will share information and technical know how. Cyber security agents in Africa will gain an even better view of emerging cyber threats by working with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2012
Trend Micro published a very interesting report on the Russian underground market, the document written by Max Goncharov analyzed the services and the products marketed by cyber criminals. The study is based on data obtained from the analysis of online forums and services attended by Russian hackers such as antichat.ru, xeka.ru, and carding-cc.com. Trend Micro […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 19, 2012
The second half of 2012 is started with an sensible increase of Distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial institutions and banking that caused several problems to the victims. To face with a so dangerous menace it’s fundament to analyze the phenomena starting from the data provided by security firms that desing solutions to protect companies from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 11, 2012
What could happen if a malware compromises a communication system adopted daily by 663 million users (info dated September 2011)? Security experts have spread an alert to Skype users about an ongoing attack that try to induce them to load a link that spreads malware. The famous voice-over-Internet application is totally changed from its original […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2012
In the last weeks we have assisted to a massive DDoS attacks against U.S. financial institutions that demonstrated how much invasive is this type of offensive. The dimension of the attacks was very impressive considering that it has beaten the defense systems of so large organizations, experts believe it is negligible if compared to the […]
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