Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2013
Cybersecurity goes to the offensive, law enforcement and private companies are discussing the possibility to adopt an offensive approach to defend their assets from the continuous cyber attacks. The press is getting used to news of cyber attacks against companies and government agencies, to date, the trend of the representatives of the cybersecurity of these entities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2013
Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. Security experts have discovered a new IE8 zero-day vulnerability exploited to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research, the concerning discovery has been confirmed by principal security firms that revealed that the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2013
APWG published the interesting study APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report on the underground marketplace that revealed the explosion of prolific mobile fraud malware market. The APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report resumed The Anti-Phishing Mobile Working Group investigating on the expansion of the black market for mobile malicious code, the study is crucial to understand the evolution of criminal activities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2013
When the DDoS topic is introduced it’s immediate to link it with the most popular tools usable for this type of attacks, but underground offers much more. When the DDoS topic is introduced it’s immediate to link it with the most popular tools usable for this type of attacks such as the popular LOIC, we must consider that underground offer […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 02, 2013
ESET security firm found a mysterious instance of Avatar rootkit with API, SDK, and Yahoo Groups for C&C communication Early this year ESET security firm detected the Avatar rootkit (Win32/Rootkit.Avatar), a mysterious malware advertised as rootkit by Russian cybercrime on specific forums. “We present you here previously announced product. In connection with work on other projects, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 30, 2013
APWG issued the new edition of its APWG Global Phishing Survey report that identifies trends and their significance by quantifying the scope of the global phishing problem. The APWG Global Phishing Survey report analyzes phishing attacks detected in the second H2 2012, the overall data for the study was collected by the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and supplemented with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2013
FireEye report on the evolution of sophisticated cyber threats and their diffusion on global scale FireEye security firm has published another interesting report, titled “FireEye report -The Advanced Cyber Attack Landscape”, that provides an overview of advanced cyber attack landscape, these events are a widespread global activity and during 2012. FireEye experts detected 12 million malware communications seeking instructions, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 22, 2013
When the HTTP protocol was born in 1999, no one ever thought it will be used by one of the most dangerous Cyber threats called Botnet. A bot is an application that can perform and repeat a particular task faster than a human. When a large number of bots infect different targets (e.g. Computers and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2013
Security firm Group-IB has detected a new variant of malware that targets the popular Russian stock-trading platform QUIK (Quik Broker, Quik Dealer) provided by Russian software developers ARQA Technologies. The malware has been used during various attacks staring in last November (2012) with the purpose to gather detailed information on the respective owners of the accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 19, 2013
The Internet is full of news regarding malware more or less sophisticated that are used for various purposes, cybercrime, cyber espionage, hacktivism or cyber warfare but not all these agents demonstrated their efficiency over the time. This time thousands of UK companies have been targeted by a smart malware, dubbed “Magic Malware”, that has gone undetected […]
