Pierluigi Paganini
August 31, 2016
A DropBox data breach occurred in 2012 is forcing the company to reset login passwords for users included in a data dump leaked online. Another clamorous data breach is in the headlines, a data dump containing more than 68 Million account credentials for online cloud storage platform Dropbox was leaked online. Earlier this week, Dropbox […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2015
Security experts at FireEye have uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign leveraging Dropbox account linked to “admin@338” as Command and Control platform. Experts at FireEye have discovered an ongoing phishing campaign using a Dropbox account linked to “admin@338” as the delivery platform. The account ” admin@338 ” was also used in the past to deliver malware, but […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2014
Mobile developers behind the Logdog app have conducted a rapid survey to analyze the trend in the hacking of accounts for the principal web services. A few weeks ago I was contacted by LogDog, a company that has developed is free protection app from hacking attacks and identity theft, the developer asked me to try the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2014
Google has announced the introduction of an improved two-factor authentication mechanism based on a USB token dubbed Security Key. Google firm considers cyber security a pillar of its business, the last initiative announced by the company is the introduction of an improved two-factor authentication system for its services, including Gmail. The new 2FA process is based on the use of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2014
Experts at Symantec have detected a scam based on Dropbox accounts to serve phishing pages over secure communication channels. Recently a massive data leakage has interested DropBox, a week ago a guest account post on Pastebin four different documents, all claiming to be part of âthe massive hack of 7,000,000 accountsâ. The author also anticipated that there are âMore to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2014
Experts from Cyphort Labs have discovered an extensive data theft campaign named Nighthunter that has been active since 2009 stealing victim’s credentials. Security experts at Cyphort firm have recently uncovered a five-year-old attack campaign dubbed NightHunter arranged to steal user credentials for Dropbox, Facebook, and other web services. The malicious campaign is cross sector, every industry […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2014
Cisco’s Threat Research Analysis and Communications (TRAC) uncovered an extremely targeted spear phish attack on high-profit companies in Europe. A new APT has been discovered by CISCO targeting high-profit companies in Europe, including businesses working in banking, oil and entertainment industries. The attackers adopted as attack vector the email in a spear phishing campaign. According to the alert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 06, 2013
Zouheir Abdallah revealed that a hacker already knows the victim’s credentials for Dropbox account that has 2FA authentication enabled, is able to hack it. Few hours ago I was informed that Q-CERT team found a critical vulnerability in DropBox that allows a hacker to bypass the two-factor authentication implemented by the popular file sharing service. […]
