Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2016
The US law enforcement conducted an unprecedented hacking campaign leveraging on the network investigative technique (NIT) to de-anonymize Tor users. In July, at least two individuals from New York have been charged with online child pornography crimes after visiting a hidden service on the Tor network. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had used a hacking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2015
The FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his name is MrGrey. According to a report published by the Reuters, the FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 12, 2015
The Director of the Tor Project Roger Dingledine has accused the FBI of commissioning to the Carnegie Mellon boffins a study on methods to de-anonymize Tor users. The experts at the Tor Project have collected more information about the attack launched last year by Carnegie Mellon researchers on the popular anonymizing system. The Director of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Cracka, the crew of young hackers who doxed the CIA Director John Brennan now hit the FBI Deputy Director Mark Giuliano ’s wife by hacking her email account. I always say, give a keyboard and internet connection to a kid and he would destroy your company. It is not a joke, the effort needed to launch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2015
The CISA cyber security bill passes US Senate despite tech giants, privacy advocates, and civil liberties groups express their disappointment. The US Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass a version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), a bill that has been debated for a long because it will authorize government pervasive monitoring of citizens. Many politicians, tech […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 02, 2015
FBI has published the lists of most wanted hackers, the rewards for their capture reach $4.2 million. They have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars. Cybercrime represents one of the most serious threat to Governments and private industries worldwide, law enforcement hunt down this emerging class of criminals who are able to influence the social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
Law enforcement is investigating a series of mysterious attacks on the Fiber-optic cable lines in California. Who is behind these attacks? The FBI is investigating a series of mysterious physical attacks on internet cables in California. The investigators confirmed that at least eleven cases occurred in San Francisco’s Bay Area in the last year. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2015
A look to the “NIT Forensic and Reverse Engineering Report, Continued from January 2015”. NIT code was used by the FBI to deanonymize Tor users. On December 22nd, 2014 Mr. Joseph Gross retained the assistance of Dr. Ashley Podhradsky, Dr. Matt Miller, and Mr. Josh Stroschein to provide the testimony as the expert in the process […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2015
Between April 2014 and June 2015, the IC3 received 992 CryptoWall related complaints, with victims reporting losses totaling over $18 million. Cryptowall is one of the most nefarious ransomware in the wild, in twelve months the FBI has estimated that the overall losses were more than $18 million. Ransomware implements a classic extortion scheme typically demanding that victims pay ransom […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2015
A cyber attack against the ground computer systems of the Polish flagship carrier LOT grounded more than 1,400 passengers at Warsaw’s Okecie airport. The Polish national airline, LOT, announced on Sunday that it has cancelled 10 flights due to a cyber attack against the airline’s ground computer systems at Warsaw’s Okecie airport. “Today afternoon LOT […]
