Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2016
A hacker is offering for sale more than 32 million Twitter account credentials with plans to sell the account details on the Dark Web. Recent news of massive data breaches suffered by IT giants LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, and VK.com shocked the security industry. Millions of login credentials are available for sale in the principal black markets, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2016
New research conducted by Citrix indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast in case of ransomware attacks. New research conducted by Citrix, a corporate networking company, indicates that some businesses are stockpiling Bitcoins so they can pay cybercriminals fast, if their data is held ransom by malicious software. Ransomware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
Experts from Kaspersky Lab have conducted an experiment to demonstrate the risks for charging mobile devices with untrusted USB charging points and PCs. A simple operation like charging mobile Smartphone could expose users at serious risks. It is not a novelty, mobile devices could be hacked while owners are charging them by using a standard […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 06, 2016
The anti-phishing company PhishMe that observed that as of the end of March 93 percent of all phishing emails contained a ransomware. Ransomware is becoming a privileged instrument of cyber criminals to rapidly earn money, the diffusion of this type of threat is changing the threat landscape scenario, for example, as of the end of March, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 04, 2016
Trend Micro experts discovered a new strain of Point-of-Sale (PoS) malware dubbed FastPOS that implements a quick and efficient exfiltration technique. Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of PoS malware dubbed FastPOS that is able to quickly exfiltrate harvested data. The malware was used by threat actors to target both enterprises and SMBs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2016
Experts at Flashpoint published an interesting analysis of a ransomware campaign organized by a small gang of cyber criminals. Cybercrime is a profitable business, last week we reported that according to security experts at Check Point, the creators of the Nuclear EK are gaining nearly 100K USD each month, most victims are in Europe and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2016
More than 10,000 WordPress installations being exploited in the wild due to a vulnerability in the WP Mobile Detector plugin. Security experts at Sucuri reported that a growing number of WordPress installations have been compromised by hackers exploiting a security flaw in a widely used plugin called WP Mobile Detector. The worrisome news is that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2016
Experts at FireEye spotted IRONGATE a mysterious strain of malware that appears to be designed to target industrial control systems (ICS). Security researchers at FireEye have spotted a new strain of malware IRONGATE has been designed to compromise industrial control systems (ICS). The malicious code was designed to manipulate a specific industrial process in a simulated Siemens control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2016
The Analysis of SWIFT attacks revealed five additional pieces of malware containing portions of code shared by Lazarus Group. While security experts continue to investigate the cyber heists that involved SWIFT systems, new evidence collected by a senior security researcher from Anomali Labs link the malware to the North Korean hacker crew known as Lazarus Group. The expert discovered that five […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 31, 2016
Be careful, Microsoft is alerting all Windows users of a new type of a Self-propagating ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior to propagate itself. Microsoft is alerting all Windows users of a new type of ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior. “We are alerting Windows users of a new type of ransomware that exhibits worm-like behavior. This […]
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