Pierluigi Paganini
December 28, 2014
A group of hackers claiming to be members of the collective Anonymous has released online a lot of 13,000 passwords and credit cards for popular websites. Hackers claiming to be members of the popular group of hacktivists Anonymous have leaked more than 13,000 alleged credentials for some popular websites, including Amazon, Playstation Network and Xbox Live. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2014
Experts at S21sec firm recently detected a new ransomware campaign based on TorrentLocker that infected users prevalently in Italy and Spain. The last report published by Trend Micro revealed that ransomware represents a serious cyber threat in the EMEA region, where countries like Italy and Spain observed over 80% of the affected users. Recently S21sec detected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2014
Chinese hackers brought down all major Afghanistan Government websites by hacking an official CDN network used in the country. The experts of the ThreatConnect Intelligence Research Team (TCIRT) recently reported the operation, dubbed Operation Helmand, run by a group of Chinese hackers that attacked the entire Afghan government web network. The hackers allegedly used a targeted cross-site scripting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2014
Security Experts at Sophos explained the efficiency of the business model known as Cybercrime-as-a-Service in the specific case of Vawtrak botnet. The term Cybercrime-as-a-Service refers to the practice in the cybercriminal ecosystem to provide product and services for use by other criminals. In September 2014, a report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the 2014 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2014
Sophos and ESET detected the first self-reproducing polymorphic Ransomware dubbed Virlock that encrypts files and creates unique instances of itself. Security researchers from Sophos and ESET security firms have discovered a new interesting trend in the evolution of ransomware. The new strain of ransomware, dubbed VirRansom or VirLock, discovered by the experts is able to encrypt […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 22, 2014
The annual IT security report issued by the German BSI reported that a sophisticated cyber attack on a steel factory caused severe damage. A cyber attack could cause serious damage to a production plant or a facility, we discussed several times this attack scenario that represents a nightmare for security experts and Intelligence agencies. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
A Syrian citizen media group critical of ISIS was recently targeted in a spear phishing campaign which aim to de-anonymize its members. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is accused to have run cyber attacks against the Syrian citizen media group known as Raqqah is being Slaughtered Silently (RSS), the news was reported by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2014
More than 12 million devices are vulnerable to a simple attack that could compromise their home routers exploiting a vulnerability called Misfortune Cookie. More than 12 Million Home Routers are affected by a vulnerability called Misfortune Cookie that expose users to the risk of cyber attack. Researchers at Check Point Software Technologies reported the Misfortune Cookie flaw affects millions of devices running […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2014
Palo Alto Networks discovered that the software installed on many of Coolpad high-end Android phones includes a CoolReaper backdoor. The US security firm Palo Alto Networks have discovered that millions of Android smartphones commercialized by the Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad Group Ltd. may contain a “backdoor”, dubbed CoolReaper, that allows the tracking of the users. Palo Alto […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2014
Security experts at Trend Micro detected a new banking trojan dubbed TSPY_BANKER.YYSI which uses Pinterest as command and control system. According to researchers at Trend Micro once again, banks in South Korea are targeted by a new financial malware designed to target their customers. The attackers have targeted customers of the principal financial institutions of […]
