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Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2016

What is a SOC (Security Operations Center)?

What is a SOC? What is its mission? Which are the Security tools and technology components of a SOC? Here come all the answers. A definition What is a SOC? A Security Operations Center (SOC) is an organized and highly skilled team whose mission is to continuously monitor and improve an organization’s security posture while […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016

Microsoft warns of malicious macros using a new sneaky trick

Researchers at the Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center are warning of a new wave of attacks leveraging malicious macros using a new sneaky trick. Researchers at Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center are warning of a new technique attackers are using to allow macro malware elude detection solutions. The experts first spotted the technique while analyzing a file […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016

A dangerous Worm is infected outdated Ubiquiti Devices worldwide

A worm is infecting routers and other wireless devices across the world made by the Ubiquiti Networks company. An insidious worm is infecting routers and other wireless devices made by Ubiquiti Networks across the world. ISPs worldwide reported the malware-based attacks, the threat can take complete control of the wireless networking equipment by exploiting a year-old remote […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 19, 2016

Hackers target the campaigns of presidential contenders

The US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper revealed that attackers are targeting the campaigns of US presidential contenders. At the end of 2015, I published a post titled “2016 Cyber Security Predictions,” one of my prediction is related the rise of cyber attacks related to the US elections. “Social media are a primary communication method […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016

Skimer malware evolves, it is used to target ATMs

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a new variant of the Skimer malware used to steal money and payment card data from ATMs. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new strain of the malware dubbed ‘Skimer’ (Backdoor.Win32.Skimer). Skimer is an old threat that has been around since 2009, it is used by criminal organizations to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

The popular crime forum Nulled.io has suffered a serious security breach that exposed personal details of more than 500K users and their activities. Nulled.io is a popular crime forum with roughly 500,000 users that but and sell any kind of product and services and share information regarding illegal practices. According to the Risk Based Security, last […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 60 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs How terrorists abuse online services for propaganda? Hacker Interviews – The hacker: zurael sTz Liberty Reserve founder sentenced 20 years in jail Security Affairs newsletter Round 59 – News of the week 2015 intelligence transparency report, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist

The SWIFT announced that a second commercial bank was a victim of a cyber heist, the crime appears to be part of a broad online attack on global banking. A second malware-based attack hit the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system. The news was spread by the SWIFT on Thursday, the attack has many similarities with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2016

Flawed 7-Zip compression tool opens systems to hack.Update it now!

Recently security experts at Cisco Talos have discovered multiple exploitable vulnerabilities in 7-Zip that open users to cyber attacks. According to the Cisco security researcher Jaeson Schultz, multiple flaws in the 7-Zip compression tool could be exploited by hackers to gain the complete control on the target machine running the popular software. “Recently Cisco Talos has […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2016

Security Affairs newsletter Round 59 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads The British GCHQ has disclosed dozens vulnerabilities this year Garage4hackers Webcast – Bypass Modern WAFs Exemplified at XSS Security Affairs newsletter Round 58 – News of the […]