Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 16 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. US Healthcare companies are the most targeted by Stegoloader Popular travel websites warn Customers of Phishing scam Ransomware slinging exploit kit targets Flash remote code execution Experts found Government […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
The FBI Most Wanted hackers. Law enforcement is willing to pay $4.2 million to get them

FBI has published the lists of most wanted hackers, the rewards for their capture reach $4.2 million. They have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars. Cybercrime represents one of the most serious threat to Governments and private industries worldwide, law enforcement hunt down this emerging class of criminals who are able to influence the social […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 01, 2015
California: who is cutting Fiber-optic cable lines and why?

Law enforcement is investigating a series of mysterious attacks on the Fiber-optic cable lines in California. Who is behind these attacks? The FBI is investigating a series of mysterious physical attacks on internet cables in California. The investigators confirmed that at least eleven cases occurred in San Francisco’s Bay Area in the last year. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 14 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. OPM hack: White House orders the adoption of best practices Researcher found Wind turbines and solar systems vulnerable worldwide OPM data offered for sale on the Dark Web Wikimedia […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2015
XARA data stealing flaws affect Apple iOS, OSX

A team of researchers from Indiana University discovered a number of XARA vulnerabilities in both Apple’s OS X and iOS that allows Apple Keychain crack. A team of researchers from Indiana University (Luyi Xing, Xialong Bai, XiaoFeng Wang, and Kai Chen lead by Tongxin Li, of Peking University, and Xiaojing Liao, of Georgia Institute of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2015
Stegoloader, a stealthy Information Stealer that exploits steganography

The authors of the Stegoloader malware are exploiting digital steganography to keep the information-stealing under the radar and avoid detection. Malware authors are prolific professionals always searching for techniques that can allow them to hide their malicious codes from detection. This week the security researchers at Dell SecureWorks discovered a new strain of malware dubbed Stegoloader, that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2015
OPM data offered for sale on the Dark Web

Government records stolen in the recent data breach at the US OPM (Office of Personnel Management) are surfacing from the Dark Web. While security experts speculate on the possible responsible for the recent data breach at US the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) the alleged data appeared in the dark web. I have personally found it on […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2015
Vawtrak Uses Tor2Web making hard to track down its servers

Security experts at Fortinet uncovered a new strain of the Vawtrak banking Trojan is implementing an obscuring mechanism based on the Tor2Web service. The authors of the banking Trojan Vawtrak are adopting a new tactic to hide the traffic to its servers,  they are exploiting  the Tor2Web service to masquerade malicious connections. In the past, criminal crews behind […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2015
A report shows that the NSA is in a search for hackers

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama approved the law to give to NSA wider powers, what does it means for Americans? The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama approved the law to give to NSA wider powers, where the NSA is able to spy internet traffic in search […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2015
Compromised SSH keys used to access popular GitHub repositories

Security experts Ben Cox explained that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed using compromised SSH keys. Ben Cox, engineer at CloudFlare revealed that the official Github repositories of the UK Government, Spotify, and Python were accessed by using legitimate SSH keys. It seems that the keys were compromised […]