Pierluigi Paganini
August 23, 2013
The cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT Ebrahim Hegazy has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy (@Zigoo0) has found an “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the giant security solutions vendor “Kaspersky”. Ebrahim Hegazy is the cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT who found a SQL […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2013
Fraudsters target wire payment switch at US banks to steal millions using DDoS to divert the attention on fraudulent transactions. Cybercriminals are targeting the wire payment switch instead to hit directly into the banking accounts of individuals and businesses, this appears to be the last trend observed for recent attacks against numerous US banks. The wire payment switch […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2013
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled one of the numerous hacking services offered in the underground highlighting new trends in the cybercrime ecosystem. With the term attack-as-a-service model is indicated the practice to outsource all the phases of an attack to specialists instead to rent tools and architecture to conduct personally the illegal activities (Malware-as-a-Service). Danchev […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2013
Security experts at Kaspersky have detected numerous Android malicious applications that uses Google Cloud Messaging Service as C&C. Android malware exploits the Google Cloud Messaging Service (GCM) as Command and Control server. The Google service allows Android app developers to send messages using JSON format to installed apps, but hackers exploited it for malicious purposes. The discovery has been made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2013
FireEye security experts discovered a new series of cyber attacks conducted by Chinese hackers targeted the US media in 2012, the attackers have improved the malware used in previous campaign against the New York Times. A new series of cyber attacks conducted by Chinese hackers targeted the US media, it seems that the responsible is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 12, 2013
AndroRAT is just one of the numerous open-source tools that was created and published on the undergroud forums to allow the hack of Android mobile devices. AndroRAT is an open-source tool that was created and published on the Internet in November 2012, it is a RAT (Remote Access Tool) for Android OS and exactly as any other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 11, 2013
Cybercriminals are exploiting the possibility of DNS impairment to redirects visitors of thousands legitimate websites to compromised domains used to serve malware. DNS impairment or rather compromising DNS to distribute malicious code, cyber criminals are very attracted by the possibility to use DNS servers to redirect users that trying to visit a legitimate domain are hijacked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2013
Researchers at Arbor Networks discovered a botnet called Fort Disco that was used to compromise more than 6000 websites based on popular CMSs. A botnet called Fort Disco was used to compromised more than 6000 websites based on popular content management systems such as Joomla, WordPress and Datalife Engine. The Fort Disco botnet is currently made […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 28, 2013
Media agencies reported news of a cyber attack against the Istanbul Ataturk International Airport, the passport control system at the departure terminal was hit causing many problems at the airport. The Turkish authorities diffused the news of a cyber attack against the Istanbul Ataturk International Airport. Official sources revealed that the passport control system at the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 25, 2013
KINS trojan is the name of the new banking malware that RSA researchers discovered thanks to an announcement on the Russian black market. Early 2013 RSA discovered traces of a news banking trojan named KINS, security experts have followed the evolution of the malware in the underground community. RSA researchers discovered an announcement on the Russian […]
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