Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2016
According to security experts at Check Point the creators of the Nuclear EK are gaining nearly 100K USD each month, most victims are in Europe and US. Most people interested working with a cloud business model nowadays, even malware programmers. It is better than just one time selling a security exploit, authors of malware are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2016
A data breach suffered by LinkedIn back in 2012 is still haunting the security community. In 2012, LinkedIn suffered an attack heard around the professional world. The social networking site that caters to professionals and their social peer groups suffered and breach of nearly 6.5 million users. The attack was attributed to Russian hackers who […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 24, 2016
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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 […]
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