Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2013
“Modern online-banking cybercrime” -The presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. Today I presented at Cyber Threat Summit 2013 the topic “Modern online-banking cybercrime“, the presentation analyzes current context for cybersecurity in Banking focusing on cyber threats and countermeasures. The agenda is: Intro Phishing attacks Malware Based Attacks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 20, 2013
Security Experts at Sophos have detected a new phishing campaign against the Italian brand Poste Italiane that makes use of an efficient social engineering technique. Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service Poste Italiane, the scheme attracted the researcher’s attention due the reuse of an old social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2013
IBM issued the X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, a detailed analysis of current security landscape, including data on main cyber threats and information on mitigation techniques. IBM issued the X-Force 2013 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report, a study that identifies Social media as the main target of cyber criminal activities. The powerful social networking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2013
IT security firm F-Secure has published its Threat Report H1 2013, the document proposes a focus on Java exploits, mobile threats, Bitcoin mining, APTs and Mac malware. F-Secure security firm has released the Threat Report H1 2013 that provides an overview on cyber security landscape analyzing the events that characterized the first part of the year. The primary cause of incidents according the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 17, 2013
It is very easy to hack the Nasdaq according the security expert Kolochenko that reported numerous vulnerabilities in the official website of the exchange. Just 10 minutes could be sufficient for an attacker to hack the Nasdaq Stock Market, this is the alert provided by Ilia Kolochenko, head of Swiss information security company High-Tech Bridge. The security expert […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2013
A researcher at Malwarebytes has discovered that a Russian hacker recently released an Android Firefox Zero-Day exploits on the underground. A new Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit is available on the underground market for sale, a Russian exploit writer known as “fil9” has proposed it in the open exploit market with a starting price of $460. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 06, 2013
Hesperbot is the name of a new banking trojan detected by ESET, it is a very potent malware which includes some very advanced tricks. Hesperbot is the name of the last banking trojan detected by security firm ESET, a malware that due its effectiveness could create serious problems to banks and financial institutions. Just yesterday I wrote about the evolution of cyber threats targeting online banking services, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2013
The majority of financial service professionals considers Man In The Browser as the greatest threat to online banking, cybercrime increases its use. Man In The Browser attack, DDoS attacks, phishing are most insidious cyber threats against banking institutions. Last statistics proposed by principal security firms confirm that online banking is considered a lucrative business for […]
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 18, 2013
The Indian security expert ‘Rahul Sasi’ found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow to gain Meterpreter shell or full access to the victim just sending an SMS. The Indian Security expert ‘Rahul Sasi‘ announced to have found a USB Internet Modems vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute malicious code remotely simply sending an SMS […]
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