Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2016
Europol, a new move against terrorism and money laundering

The Europol is increasing its efforts against terrorism, it has joined forces with EU to fight terrorist financing and money laundering. Since 1 January 2016, Europol has increased the level of integration among the nodes of the decentralised computer network of the European Union Member States’ Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), the FIU.net. “FIU.NET is a decentralised computer network […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2016
Cybersecurity Operational Tests And Assessments – US Defence can’t check F-35 data due to insecure systems

Cybersecurity Operational Tests And Assessments conducted by the US Defence are essential to improve overall security … and discover that US Govt can’t check F-35 data due to insecure systems. It is difficult to understand the importance of concept like information sharing when dealing with daily work, but officers at the Pentagon are learning at […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2016
27% of all detected malware appeared in 2015

According to a new report from Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were detected over the 2015, 27% of all malware of ever. In 2015, security experts have detected the a record number of new malware, according to a report published by Panda Security more than 84 million new malware samples were collected. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 45 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Shodan implements a feature to browse vulnerable webcams Europol, a new EU counter terrorism centre opening this month Security Affairs newsletter Round 44 – News of the week Skype – IP will now be hidden by default […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2016
CenterPOS – The evolution of POS malware

Security Experts at FireEye discovered a new strain of POS malware dubbed CenterPOS that is threatening the retail systems. In the last 2/3 years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of POS malware, their diffusion is becoming even more worrying. We read about many high-profile breaches that involved high-complex malware targeting payment systems […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2016
Flaw in Magento exposes millions of websites at risk of takeover

A stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Magento exposes millions of e-commerce websites at risk of takeover, update your platform as soon as possible Once again a vulnerability in the popular Magento e-commerce platform opens at risk of hijacking attacks millions of online merchants. According to the experts at Sucuri, the Magento e-commerce platform was affected by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 44 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Cyber defence is a profitable Hamster Wheel Energy industry under unceasing attack in 2015 Security Affairs newsletter Round 43 – News of the week Critical OpenSSH bug leaks private crypto keys just fixed LastPass phishing attack could […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2016
RSA Conference registration page asks Twitter credentials, that’s incredible!

It is hard to believe but the RSA Conference registration page is collecting Twitter credentials sending them back to an RSA server, in-security by design! Security experts from Twitter recently made a singular discovery, the final step of the registration page on the RSA Conference website was requesting user’s Twitter credentials and sending them to the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2016
Asacub Android Malware, the multiform threat

Asacub is a new Android threat that has been used by bad actors to infect thousands of users in Russia in a recent SMS spam campaign. According to the experts from Kaspersky Lab, the Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Asacub was first detected as a new spyware Trojan. The experts noticed that one of the C&C servers used by the Asacub Android malware (chugumshimusona[.]com) was also […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2016
The rise of the Brazilian Cybercriminal Underground in 2015

Trend Micro has published a new report on the Brazilian Cybercriminal Underground, a criminal ecosystem that is becoming one of the most important in the world. Trend Micro has published a new report on the Brazilian Cybercriminal Underground, a criminal ecosystem that is becoming one of the most important in the world. A first study […]