Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2016
An iOS zero-day allows iCloud photos and videos decryption

A group of researchers found an iOS zero-day that would let a skilled attacker decrypt photos and videos that were sent as secure instant messages. The bad news is that Matthew Green, a professor at Johns Hopkins University revealed that a zero-day vulnerability in iOS encryption allows skilled attackers to decrypt intercepted iMessages, the good […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 21, 2016
Hackers brought down the websites of principal Swedish Newspapers

The online editions of principal Swedish newspapers were knocked out for several hours by a cyber attack during the weekend. The websites if a Swedish were shut down in the weekend due to an “extremely dangerous and serious” cyber attack. The websites hit by the hackers are the Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Aftonbladet, Dagens Industri, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 20, 2016
Olympic Vision BEC attacks target businesses worldwide with keyloggers

Trend Micro discovered a Business Email Compromise Campaign leveraging on the Olympic Vision keylogger that targets Middle East and Asia Pacific Companies. A new malware-based campaign is targeting key employees from companies in the US, Middle East and Asia. The attackers are using malware in a classic business email compromise (BEC) attack in order to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2016
Hackers stole data from the Swiss People’s Party

The Swiss People’s Party confirmed that they have been the target of hackers who have stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. A group of hackers, which calls itself NSHC, claims to have hacked the Switzerland’s largest party, the conservative Swiss People’s Party (SVP), and stolen the personal data of over 50,000 individuals. The cracked archive […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2016
Anonymous claims to leak Trump ’s personal info under #OpWhiteRose

The Anonymous Hacker collective claims to publish Donald Trump’s personal information, including Social Security Number and addresses. Alleged members of the Anonymous collective have leaked Donald Trump’s already public “private” phone numbers and other information online. The hackers have leaked also addresses, including the one of the Palm Beach residence in Florida, and social security […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 18, 2016
Buhtrap group stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian banks

From August 2015 to February 2016 Buhtrap group managed to conduct 13 successful attacks against Russian banks for a total amount of $25.7 mln. Since August of 2015, the Buhtrap group has conducted 13 successful attacks against financial institutions stealing more than ₽1.86 billion RUB ($27.4M USD). In April 2015, ESET discovered a malware campaign dubbed Operation Buhtrap, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
ProtonMail is open. Do you want an encrypted email account? Sign in!

ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta.     ProtonMail, the world’s largest privacy-focused and encrypted email provider, announced today that the service is leaving beta and will be allowing open registrations for the first time in nearly two years. For the past couple of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
American Express issued a notice of data breach

American Express is informing cardholders that their payment card data may have been exposed after a third-party service provider suffered a security breach. Another illustrious victim of a data breach is in the headlines, this time, American Express is warning Cardholders of a possible incident occurred to a third party service provider. The name of the affected service provider […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
How to install the AceDeceiver malware onto any iOS Device

AceDeceiver is the first iOS malware that abuses certain design flaws in Apple’s FairPlay DRM to install malicious apps on iOS devices even non-jailbroken. Hackers are exploiting a flaw affecting the Apple digital rights management technology (DRM) to install malicious apps on every iOS device, even non-jailbroken ones. Last month, security experts at Palo Alto Networks […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 17, 2016
Carbanak Group targets entities in Middle East and US with new TTPs

Proofpoint has collected evidence of new Carbanak group campaigns.The hackers are targeting banks in the Middle East, the United States and other countries. Security researchers at Proofpoint firm sustain to have collected evidence of new Carbanak group campaigns. This time the hackers are targeting banks in the Middle East, the United States and other countries. Last year, Kaspersky […]