Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2016
While discussing the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, Apple executives said the password changed while it was under the government custody. The discussion about the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone has monopolized media in this week, a US magistrate ordered Apple to help unlock the mobile device, but the company refused to do so. A new shocking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2016
The cybercrime ecosystem is getting ready to exploit the media attention on the Zika virus infections for illegal activities. Be careful! What is the relationship between the Zika virus and a malware? It’s just a matter of opportunity, the cyber crime ecosystem is getting ready to exploit the media attention on current issues for illegal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
In a recent investigation case, security researchers at Sucuri revealed that 26,000 different WordPress sites were exploited to launch Layer 7 distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In a recent investigation case, security researchers at Sucuri revealed that 26,000 different WordPress sites were generating a sustained rate of 10,000 to 11,000 HTTPS requests per second […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
Comodo Internet Security, in the default configuration, installs an application called GeekBuddy that also installs a VNC server enabled by default. The hackers of the Google Project Zero Team have found another serious security issue in the Comodo’s protection software, it is a VNC server enabled by default with a password easy to guess. It […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
According to a report published by Risk Based Security more than tens of thousands of DVRs are exposed on the Internet with a hardcoded password. According to a report published by Risk Based Security (RBS), the firmware of DVRs manufactured by China-based Zhuhai RaySharp contains hardcoded credentials that could be used by a remote hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2016
In May 2015, the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 published a report on a Trojan called OceanLotus that was being used since 2012 for APT attacks in the Chinese market. The APT attacks based  on the OceanLotus focused on government organizations, research institutes, maritime agencies, and companies specializing in other activities. At the time were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2016
Researchers at Blue Frost Security firm discovered a flaw in the FireEye Virtual Execution Engine (VXE) that allows an attacker to completely bypass virtualization-based dynamic analysis and whitelist malware. Security researchers at Blue Frost Security have found a high severity vulnerability in FireEye products that allowed an attacker to bypass the companyâs detection engine and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2016
Sergey Lozhkin, a security expert at Kaspersky Lab demonstratd how it is easy for hackers to compromise medical devices and critical healthcare infrastructure. The ascent in the Internet of Things (IoT) has left gadgets more associated, yet much of the time more vulnerable, than at any other time. From auto hacking to digital assaults against […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
A new documentary titled Zero Days revealed that the Stuxnet cyber weapon was just a small part of a much bigger Information Warfare operation (code named âNITRO ZEUSâ) against the Iranian civilian infrastructure. A new documentary titled Zero Days has revealed more disconcerting news on the Stuxnet worm, the first malware recognized by security industry as a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
Malware researchers at PaloAlto discovered the Fysbis Trojan, a simple and an effective Linux threat used by the Russian cyberspy group Pawn Storm. Do you remember the Pawn Storm hacking crew? Security experts have identified this group of Russian hackers with several names, including APT28, Sofacy or Sednit, it has been active since at least 2007. The name Pawn Storm is used by security […]
