Hacking

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
Cyber thieves are stealing money from ATMs with infected USB sticks

Two German researchers at the last Chaos Computing Congress in Hamburg revealed how cyber thieves steal money from ATMs win infected USB Sticks. Cyber criminals are exploiting new techniques to attack ATMs (Automated Teller Machines) infecting the devices with specifically crafted malware. Security researchers discovered a new series of attacks against ATMs, the criminals cut […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
CDM MAGAZINE – CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 ED. for free

CDM (CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE) PRESENTS: CYBER WARNINGS DECEMBER 2013 EDITION The December edition of the free Cyber Defense Magazine is out. Don’t miss it.   SPONSORED BY RSA CONFERENCE 2014 Read each FLIPBOOK edition electronically, online and flip through the page: CYBER WARNINGS E-MAGAZINE:  DECEMBER 2013 CYBER DEFENSE MAGAZINE: ANNUAL EDITION FOR 2013 Download a color PDF […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2013
Russian hacker HASH took control of a BBC server

The Russian hacker known as “HASH” and “Rev0lver” took control of a BBC server and attempted to sell access to it to other cybercriminals. A hacker compromised a server at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and started a Christmas Day campaign to sell the access to the machine to other cyber criminals. The evidences of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2013
Zeus, Cryptolocker and more, malware evolution according TrendMicro

A rapid look to last trends in malware development observed by security experts at TrendMicro, old threat including new improvements. Security experts have observed during last months an increase in the use of AutoIt coding language To Spread Malware and Toolsets. AutoIt is a very flexible scripting language used since 1999 in Windows environments. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2013
Der Spiegel – TAO hacking elite unit and NSA backdoor catalog revealed

Der Spiegel revealed that the TAO unit of NSA planted backdoors to access computers, hard drives, routers, and other devices from principal vendors. Germany’s Der Spiegel has published another disturbing article on the NSA surveillance activities, the media agency has published an internal NSA catalog that offers spies backdoors into a wide range of equipment from […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2013
eBay XSRF flaw allows attacker to make unauthorized purchases

EBay website is vulnerable to XSRF (Cross-site request forgery) attack that would allow an attacker to hijack an account and make unauthorized purchases. A new flaw has been discovered in the official EBay website, the vulnerability allows an attacker to hijack an account and make unauthorized purchases from the victim’s account. The flaw is not […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2013
Snapchat users menaced by a couple of malicious exploits

Gibson Security revealed that The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk Registration’ Exploit menace the security and privacy of million of Snapchat users. Gibson Security has recently published the details of a couple of SnapChat vulnerabilities which could be exploited by hackers respectively to massively disclose users and associated phone numbers, and enable the creation fake accounts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2013
Dexter Malware, the rise of malware that hits point of sales

Security experts at Arbor Networks have found a couple of servers used to arrange a malicious campaign against PoS with Dexter malware. At the end of 2012, Israel based company Seculert  notified about Dexter malware, used for parsing memory dumps of specific POS software related processes, looking for Track 1 / Track 2 credit card data. Dexter […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2013
Samsung Knox Android-based solution contains a serious flaw

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs has discovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Samsung Knox is affected by a serious flaw, the discovery was made by an Israeli security researcher, Mordechai Guri, from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs. Samsung Knox is […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2013
Bitcoin case – How cybercriminals exploit typosquatting

How cyber criminals could exploit typosquatting? The case of MtGox proposed by MalwareBytes, a fake domain used to serve malicious codes. Typosquatting, also called URL hijacking, is a common form of hacking which relies on mistakes such as typographical errors made by Internet users when typing the website address into the address bar of their browser. Should a user […]