Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2014
Security experts at Malwarebytes detected a new of the popular Zeus banking trojan variant which makes use of steganography to hide the configuration file. The immortal Zeus malware strikes again, researchers at Malwarebytes have found a new variant of the banking trojan. The new variant of Zeus is using the steganography to disguise the configuration code […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2014
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled hacking for hire services offered in the underground, providing an indication of their prices. In the past we have already analyzed the diffusion in the underground of hacking for hire services, a term coined to define the sale of hacking services made by cyber criminals for a limited period of time. Surfing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2014
The crowd-funding site Kickstarter has been Hacked! The company suggested to its users to change their password. The popular crowd funding website Kickstarter is the last victim of a data breach, all the users are invited to change their passwords to avoid further problems. The news has been confirmed by the CEO of Kickstarter, Yancey Strickler, that revealed the company has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2014
Security researchers at SANS detected a self-replicating malware (dubbed moon worm) is spreading among a number of different Linksys routers. Researchers at the SANS Institute discovered a new self-replicating worm that is infecting different Linksys home and small business routers. The investigation started after an Internet service provider in Wyoming noted an unusual network traffic and decided to alert SANS. The SANS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2014
Hold Security reported it has discovered a list of credentials for close to 7,800 FTP servers being circulated in cybercrime forums in the Deep Web. FTP servers are considered a privileged target for cyber criminals, hackers can exploit them for example to spread malware infecting webservers that rely on FTP applications for updates. The Hold Security firm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2014
PandaLabs has found at least four free apps in the official Google Play store that are packaged with a premium SMS scam. Already 300000 mobile infected. PandaLabs security firm has identified malicious Android apps available on Google Play that can sign up users for premium SMS subscription services without user knowledge. The malware has infected at least 300,000 Android devices, although the number of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2014
Thousands of Tesco.com shopping accounts were suspended after hackers have leaked users details including credentials and Tesco Clubcard vouchers. Tesco has recently confirmed to have suffered a data breach, the cybercriminals have hit the company on Valentine’s Day compromising the account of thousands of online clients. “We take the security of our customers’ data extremely seriously and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2014
Security researchers from FireEye have recently discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit being used in a watering hole attack. Security experts at FireEye discovered a new IE 10 Zero-Day exploit (CVE-2014-0322) being used in a watering hole attack on the US Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) website. The zero-day allows the attacker to modify one byte […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2014
The Syrian Electronic Army has hacked Forbes WordPress CMS and has hijacked Twitter accounts belonging to the media agency. Who will be the next one? Forbes is the new victim of the popular group of hackers Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), the popular group pro Syrian President Assad. The hackers took responsibility for a coordinated attack against multiple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2014
An unclassified NSA memorandum disclosed by the NBC News reveals Snowden allegedly managed to access classified documentation stealing coworker’s passwords. The hypothesis that Edward Snowden has operated using a simple web-crawler is very curious, how is it possible that a lonely consultant had access to a so huge collection of documents from NSA archives? Why Does […]
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