Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2016
The Las Vegas Casino firm Affinity Gaming sued Trustwave for allegedly failing a data breach investigation, but Trustwave denies any wrongdoing. Affinity Gaming, a casino operator operating five casinos in Nevada, and six in other locations in the US, has sued the It security company Trustwave for a “bad” investigation, after a network breach it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 17, 2016
A study conducted by TripWire over the past year revealed successful cyber attacks on the energy industry increased as never before. US oil and gas companies are under attack, over 80% of them have reported a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks. According to Tripwire, over the past year successful cyber attacks have increased […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 16, 2016
Once again, the security expert Patrick Wardle has demonstrated how to bypass the Apple Gatekeeper security feature. Once again, a security expert demonstrated how to bypass OS X’s Gatekeeper security feature, and the worst news is that the patch distributed by Apple fixes the problem only temporarily. Apple tried to mitigate the attack method (CVE-2015-7024) with the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2016
The operators behind the MegalodonHTTP botnet have been arrested in an international joint effort of law enforcement and a private security firm. In December, Norway law enforcement arrested five people accused of running the MegalodonHTTP Remote Access Trojan (RAT) as part of a joint operation between Norway’s Kripos National Criminal Investigation Service and Europol, codenamed “OP […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 15, 2016
The Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a total of 250 of its resorts were compromised last year in a malware-based attack that stole customer payment card information. Hyatt Hotels revealed that 250 of its resorts have been involved in the data breach suffered last year. In December the Hyatt Hotels Corporation issued an official announcement to inform its users that unknown hackers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 14, 2016
Faulty ransomware derived from an open source ransomware project makes files unrecoverable due to a serious coding error. The story I’m gong to tell you is incredible, a cyber criminal gang has developed a very singular ransomware called RANSOM_CRYPTEAR.B and now I’ll tell you why? According to the experts at TrendMicro, the Ransomware has built starting from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 11, 2016
According to security experts the BlackEnergy malware was a key element of the attack against Ukrainian power grid that caused the power outage. On December 23, the entire Ivano-Frankivsk region in Ukraine suffered a major power outage, according to security experts and the Ukrainian Government the attackers used a destructive varian of the popular BlackEnergy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 08, 2016
The Rovnix Banking Trojan is an aggressive malware that has been used in a new campaign targeting the customers of more than a dozen Japanese banks. Malware experts at IBM’s X-Force have spotted a new strain of the Rovnix malware targeting the Japanese bank customers. The new threat comes from Russia and it is very […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2016
Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that uses stolen certificates to evade detection. In late December, security experts at Zscaler ThreatLabZ detected a new infostealer malware family dubbed Spymel that uses stolen certificates to evade detection. “ThreatLabZ came across yet another malware family where the authors are using compromised digital certificates to evade detection. The malware family in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2016
Bitdefender has discovered for the third time a flaw in Linux Encryption Ransomware Linux Encoder that exposes the decryption Key used to lock the files. In November 2015, the Russian antivirus firm Doctor Web reported the discovery of a new Linux ransomware dubbed Linux Encoder that was specifically designed to infect Linux systems. The Linux.Encoder1 ransomware encrypts files present […]
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