Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2016
According to a report published by the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future cybercriminals earn between $1,000 and $3,000 a month. How much money earns a cyber criminal? According to a report published by the threat intelligence firm Recorded Future crooks earn between $1,000 and $3,000 a month, but one of five earns $20,000 a month or […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2016
Experts from the security firm CheckPoint discovered a new Android malware dubbed Gooligan that has already compromised more than a million Google Accounts. Another malware, dubbed Gooligan, is threatening Android users. The Android malware has already compromised more than 1 Million Google accounts. The Gooligan Android malware roots vulnerable Android devices in the attempt of stealing email addresses and authentication […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2016
Roughly 26,500 accounts of the UK National Lottery players were accessed by cybercriminals, authorities are investigating the case. According to the operator Camelot, roughly 26,500 accounts of the UK National Lottery players were accessed by cybercriminals. The security breach was spotted on November 28th during a routine online security monitoring. “We do not hold full debit card […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2016
A zero-day exploit in the wild has been used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on Windows machines. The news is disconcerting and confirms the existence of a zero-day exploit in the wild that’s being used by threat actors to de-anonymize Tor users by executing malicious code on their machine. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 29, 2016
Security experts who conducted an audit on cURL discovered nearly a dozen vulnerabilities that were patched in the last release. The cURL (read “see URL”) is an open source command line tool and library designed for transferring data through various protocols. The cURL is included in a wide range of applications, including networking devices, printers, smartphones, IoT devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2016
Deutsche Telekom confirmed that more than 900,000 routers began to have serious problems connectivity problems due to a cyber attack. More than 900,000 routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany were not able to connect to the Internet due to an alleged cyber-attack. The affected routers were used by the Deutsche Telekom customers also […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2016
Last week, unknown attackers hacked the computer systems of the San Francisco’s Municipal railway giving riders a free ride all day on Saturday. Last week, hackers crashed the computer system of the San Francisco’s Municipal railway, unknown attackers took offline the ticket kiosks offline and gave riders a free ride all day on Saturday, until […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2016
The hackers Popopret and BestBuy are offering a DDoS-for-hire service leveraging a Mirai botnet composed of around 400,000 compromised devices. We have written a lot about the Mirai botnet after the clamorous attacks against the Dyn DNS service and the OVH hosting, it is a dangerous threat that was designed to target IoT devices that could be used to power massive DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2016
Security experts from Proofpoint firm observed scammers exploiting YouTube to promote their backdoored phishing templates. According to experts from the security firm Proofpoint, scammers are advertising on YouTube backdoored phishing templates offering also “how-to” videos and manuals. It is not a novelty, cyber criminals are switching on legitimate websites to propose their products and services. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 26, 2016
Kapustkiy hacked the High Commission of Ghana & Fiji in India, he also confirmed to have joined the Powerful Greek Army hacked crew. Last week, the hacker Kapustkiy, one of the most active hackers at this moment, hacked the India Regional Council, today he sent me a message to announce to have hacked the High Commission of […]
