Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2015
Documents published by the UK Government reveal that the UK’s National Crime Agency has the hacking capabilities, so called equipment interference. We have debated for a long time about hacking capabilities of principal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Many documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the UK intelligence agency, the GCHQ has the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
The Infernal-Twin is an automated tool designed for penetration testing activities, it has been developed to automate the Evil Twin Attack. The Infernal-Twin is an automated tool designed for penetration testing activities, it has been developed to assess wireless security by automating the Evil Twin Attack. “The tool was created to help the auditors and penetration testers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
The ISIS group known as the Cyber Caliphate hacked 54,000 Twitter accounts and leaked online data of heads of the CIA and FBI. We have discussed several times about the cyber capabilities of the ISIS sympathizers, recently Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer for F-Secure, said he worries about cyber extremists that could penetrate critical infrastructure and cause […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
On 4th November 2015, Touchnote company received information confirming that is has been the victim of a data breach that exposed customer data. Data breaches are becoming a daily event, the last one in the headlines it the hack suffered by the Touchnote postcard app. Hackers have stolen customer data from Touchnote database, the popular app that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2015
PageFair, the anti-ad blocking analytics service used by The Economist’s was hacked on Halloween and the attackers used it to serve malware. On Halloween, hackers have compromised the anti-ad blocking service PageFair used by The Economist exposing readers to malware infections. PageFair allows publishers to measure how many visitors block their ads, users who visited The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 07, 2015
Cracka hackers who took over the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan have now doxed more than 2000 Government employees. The young hackers of the crew known as Crackas With Attitude (CWA) announced that they have doxed more than 2,000 Government employees. The hackers are the same that accessed into the AOL email account of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2015
According to Netcraft, the website of Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria is used to serve a webmail phishing site from the legitim site of the agency. The website of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria was used by cyber criminals in a phishing scam. According to the experts at Netcraft, the website of Financial Reporting Council of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2015
ProtonMail has paid a $6000 Ransom to stop prolonged DDoS attacks that knocked its services offline since Tuesday. Unfortunately, the attacks are continuing. The popular encrypted email service ProtonMail has suffered a prolonged major DDoS attack that knocked it offline since Tuesday. It was an extortion attempt, the attackers requested a ransom in order to stop the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 06, 2015
The popular group of hacktivists Anonymous has released a list containing the identities of alleged Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members and sympathizers. A few days ago, the Anonymous hacking collective announced the imminent release of the identity of 1000 KKK members (Ku Klux Klan) under the operation #opKKK. The popular Anonymous group has declared war to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 05, 2015
Rafael Salema Marques, a Brazilian researcher, published a PoC about the existence of Mabouia ransomware, the first ransomware that targets MAC OS X. Imagine this scenario: You received a ransom warning on your computer stating that all your personal files had been locked. In order to unlock the files, you would have to pay $500. […]
