Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2012
Fortinet company, the worldwide provider of network security appliances and a market leader in unified threat management (UTM), has recently published the report “Fortinet 2013 Cybercrime Report” that deepens the phenomenon of cybercrime. The report highlights that cybercrime is assuming an amazing relevance, what really surprise is its organizational capacity that has nothing to envy […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2012
Everywhere is possible to read rivers of words on the impressive diffusion of social networks and mobile devices, both technologies used in the last months as privileged channels of attacks due their large audience. We all know how much dangerous are botnets and how many malicious purposes could be achieved with their diffusion, today I […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2012
On December 16th the Iranian Maher center issued an advisory warning of a new “targeted data wiping” malware discovered during an investigation. First analysis of the center revealed that the malicious code has a simple as efficient design that allow it to wipe files on different drives in various predefined times. The malware wipes disk partitions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2012
Last summer a series of cyber attacks hit energy sector, one of the world’s largest oil companies the Saudi Aramco was attacked by a group named the Cutting Sword of Justice. Hackers used the Shamoon malware to attack the systems of the company, fortunately, production environment wasn’t impacted. The malware is able to wipe files from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2012
Cyber espionage is worldwide recognized one of the most concerning cyber threats mainly operated by governments to steal sensible information to foreign states and private companies. FireEye has revealed a cyber espionage campaign, named “Sanny“, attributable to Korea that hosts command-and-control (C&C) servers used in the attacks, the C&C channel is embedded on a legitimate page […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2012
It’s time of analysis for the past year and forecasts on what will be the main cyber threats for next year, F-Secure Labs proposed the following Top 7 Predictions for 2013: The end of the Internet as we know it? Leaks will reveal more government-sponsored espionage tools Commoditization of mobile malware will increase Another malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 10, 2012
On September 2012 the German security firm G Data Software detected a botnet with a particular feature, it is controlled from an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server running as a hidden service of the Tor. There are pro and cons for this design choice, of course the greatest advantage resides in the difficulty for the localization of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2012
Virtual currency schemas, despite used by large communities, face with intrinsic instability that makes them not ideal for investments for financial entities. Banking systems represents the unique opportunity for investors that while accepting the risks related to financial transactions don’t want to work with a currency with no real equivalent or that it is managed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2012
Zeus, a name that security experts know very well, it’s one of the most prolific and dangerous malware of the history. In the years several versions have been detected, it’s one of the first malware for which it has been applied an excellent business model that made possible its evolution in cybercrime, unique constant is the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2012
This time I desire to speak about an interesting initiative of Group-IB company, a resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation, that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system. The funds is co-financed by the Skolkovo Foundation which has provided 21m rubles ($676,000), […]
