Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2014
Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated.  Principal security firms and CERTs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2014
A security consultant disclosed a security flaw in WhatsApp which can be exploited to gain access to the private chats of Android device owners.   The recent acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook has done much to discuss, ever a price so high was paid for an app, but major concerns relate to users’ privacy. The security consultant Bas Bosschert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 14, 2014
TURBINE is the codename for a sophisticated hacking platform to take control of C&C servers managed by cybercrime. The NSA has been hijacking the botnets managed by cybercrime to its own purpose, this is the last revelation on questionable activities of the agency. Also this last revelation is based on documents leaked by Snowden, the news was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2014
Replicant developers Kocialkowski has discovered a backdoor inside Samsung Galaxy which allows file access on the mobile’s storage. Android is the open source operating system most diffused, but being an open project, there are many customized versions that run  on mobile devices. Almost every mobile phone manufacturer commercializes its devices with a version of the Android OS that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2014
The agent.btz malware may have served as starting point for malware Turla and the malicious code used in the Red October campaign. In the last weeks we have discussed about the Snake platform used in a large-scale cyber espionage campaign that targeted highly secured systems belonging to Governments and Military all over the world. Experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2014
Sucuri firm detected a large DDOS attack that leveraged thousands of unsuspecting WordPress websites as indirect amplification vectors. The security community is threatened by a new botnet composed at least 162,000 WordPress-powered websites abused to run DDoS attacks. The technique of attack allows to flood a target with requests sent by WordPress servers that received a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2014
The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including access token. Facebook is vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack, The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including private information. “We’d actually received an earlier report from another researcher regarding this […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2014
Crimea – The Russian Cyber Strategy to Hit Ukraine The escalation of tension in Crimea is having repercussion also in cyberspace. Russia cyber strategy appears similar to the one adopted before the invasion of Georgia (2008) The year 2014 started with a diplomatic crisis in Crimes and Ukraine. The tension rose just after the 2014 Ukrainian […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2014
A group of anonymous hackers violated the personal blog and Reddit account of the MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday. They claim to publish evidence of fraud. Bitcoin community was shocked by recent MtGox data breach, the Bitcoin exchange shuts down after it had announced to have suffered technical issues that forced the exchange to suspend […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2014
Mark Sparshott, director at Proofpoint, explained that cybercrime manages phishing emails using techniques similar to those used by the marketing industry. Phishing is still considerable on of principal cyber threats for Internet users, it is even more used to spread malware and link to compromised websites, for this reason cybercriminals are adopting new and innovative […]
