Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2016
A report issued by the DHS CERT confirms that the outage in Ukraine was caused by a well-coordinated attack still unclear the BlackEnergy role. In December, a major outage hit a region in Ukraine, more than 225,000 customers were affected by the interruption of the electricity. Security experts speculate the involvement of Russian nation-state actors that have used the BlackEnergy to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Project Cumulus – Tracking fake phished credentials leaked to Dark Web Linux Mint was hacked, website served malicious ISO on Saturday Utah systems experiences 300k hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2016
Mousejack attack – Researchers at Bastille firm demonstrated how to hack computers by exploiting a flaw in many wireless mouse and keyboard dongles. A bogus wireless computer mice and keyboards can be used by threat actors to compromise laptops from up to 100 metres away. The experts demonstrated that the attack, called mousejack attack, is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Stolen card data of 100,000 Britons for sale on the clear web Iranian hackers compromised former IDF chiefs computer Security Affairs newsletter Round 47 – News of the week Man charged of Laundering $19.6 Million earned with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
The representatives of the Utah State confirmed that their systems experiences 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA Data Center. The Utah state computer systems experience 300,000 hacking attacks a day due to the presence of the NSA data center in the state. The Utah Data Center, also known as the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2016
According to a report published by Risk Based Security more than tens of thousands of DVRs are exposed on the Internet with a hardcoded password. According to a report published by Risk Based Security (RBS), the firmware of DVRs manufactured by China-based Zhuhai RaySharp contains hardcoded credentials that could be used by a remote hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2016
In May 2015, the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 published a report on a Trojan called OceanLotus that was being used since 2012 for APT attacks in the Chinese market. The APT attacks based on the OceanLotus focused on government organizations, research institutes, maritime agencies, and companies specializing in other activities. At the time were […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2016
A group of researchers discovered that roughly 1,000 brain wallets have been drained by cyber criminals that have stolen $103,000 The term brainwallet refers to the concept of storing Bitcoins in one’s own mind by memorization of a passphrase. The phrase is converted into a 256-bit private key with a hashing or key derivation algorithm (example: SHA256). That […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 14, 2016
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Google patched Nexus devices, including a critical Wi-Fi flaw How to thwart the passcode lock screen on iOS 8 and 9? Security Affairs newsletter Round 46 – News of the week Dyre crackdown, the biggest effort to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 05, 2016
According to the NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy Chinese hackers have launched a malware-based attack on its network in December. The Australian NSW Government Department of Resources and Energy revealed that in December 2015 unknown hackers targeted its systems. In the same period, the organization was launching a number of important projects, including […]
