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Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2014

JackPOS malware presented as a Java Update Scheduler

JackPOS was detected by security experts at IntelCrawler firm several days ago and it seemed based on code from “Alina”. Attacks on POS are on the rise. A new strain of Point-of-Sale malware named “JackPOS” was discovered by IntelCrawler, a cyber intelligence firm from Los Angeles, confirming the growing trend of Point-of-Sales malware after the Target data breach. JackPOS was detected several days ago […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2013

ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, the rise of cyber threats

ENISA releases the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013, it a collection of information on top cyber-threats that have been assessed in the reporting period. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, a document that was annually issued to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. The ENISA has […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 30, 2013

F-Secure published Threat Report H1 2013 on security landscape

IT security firm F-Secure has published its Threat Report H1 2013, the document proposes a focus on Java exploits, mobile threats, Bitcoin mining, APTs and Mac malware. F-Secure security firm has released the Threat Report H1 2013 that provides an overview on cyber security landscape analyzing the events that characterized the first part of the year. The primary cause of incidents according the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2013

NetTraveler APT hackers still active improved their attacks

Experts at Kaspersky firm provided evidences that the hackers behind cyber espionage campaign NetTraveler are still active and improved their attack methods. Last June Kaspersky firm uncovered a new global cyber espionage campaign dubbed NetTraveler. Kaspersky’s team discovered that NetTraveler targeted over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives from […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2013

Uncovered an unusual attacks based on anomalous file infector

Security experts uncovered an unusual cyber espionage campaign based on file infector belonging to the PE_EXPIRO family that includes information theft module Security experts at TrendMicro uncovered an unusual espionage campaign that hit United States users based on malware having file infector with stealing capabilities. The attackers acted with specific intent to steal information from organizations or […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2013

Threat Intelligence Report by Solutionary, rise of cyber attacks

Continues my overview of the main security reports published by leading companies that produce interesting analysis on the analysis of cyber threats, today I desire to introduce the data proposed by Solutionary in the “2013 Global Threat Intelligence Report” (registration is required). The GTIR report provides insight into prevalent cyber threats identified in 2012 thanks […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 05, 2013

Java exploit signed with certificate stolen to Bit9

According security experts the numerous cyber attacks that hit principal IT companies, news agencies and government offices exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Java software to the point that many recommend to uninstall Java plug-in from our browser unless absolutely necessary. Same clamor had obtained in the past the discovery that malware source codes were signed with […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2013

New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities affect Java earlier versions

Java, Java and once again Java, the popular framework and its vulnerabilities are becoming a really nightmare for security experts, billion of users and their machines are exposed to a series of attacks that try to exploit flaws in the Oracle software. Security worldwide community attributes to the Java vulnerabilities the principal responsibilities for recent […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 23, 2013

Also Microsoft in the club of hacked companies

When Apple revealed the hack to Reuters press agency I wrote that the last big enterprise not yet hacked was Microsoft, anticipating that was question of time. The last events have revealed how much vulnerable also major companies to cyber attacks, Facebook, Twitter and principal Press agencies such as NYT dedicate large investment to cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2013

Facebook compromised by zero-day Java exploit

In this last months we have registered numerous clamorous attacks against intelligence agencies, government offices, media and social networking platforms. Twitter was last victim in order of time but the thought of security experts was focuses of Facebook, the biggest social networking with more than 1 billion members, a mine of information related to the […]

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JackPOS malware presented as a Java Update Scheduler

ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, the rise of cyber threats

F-Secure published Threat Report H1 2013 on security landscape

NetTraveler APT hackers still active improved their attacks

Uncovered an unusual attacks based on anomalous file infector

Threat Intelligence Report by Solutionary, rise of cyber attacks

Java exploit signed with certificate stolen to Bit9

New Zero-Day Vulnerabilities affect Java earlier versions

Also Microsoft in the club of hacked companies

Facebook compromised by zero-day Java exploit

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