Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2014
Security Experts at Bitdefender discovered a clickjacking Naked Video scam that already infected more that 2 millions Facebook users. Sex and social media is a dangerous mix abused by cyber criminals to hit a large number of users of most popular social networks. In the last couple of years the number of illicit activities on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2014
Security experts at Malcovery firm have detected a new Zeus variant bypassing the security traditional defenses with the usage of encryption. Zeus malware is hard to die, the availability of its source code in the wild caused periodically the born of a new variant, even more resistant  and sophisticated. Over the years, we saw variants […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 31, 2014
The company has issued a security advisory to warn users that Yahoo Mail Service was hacked, hackers have stolen credentials of its email customers. Yahoo Mail! is considered one of the largest email service providers, millions of people use is every day, it’s clear that it represents an attractive target for cyber criminals. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 09, 2013
The Security researcher Dan Melamed has found two new Facebook vulnerabilities related to the Fanpage Invite of the popular social network. Security researcher Dan Melamed has found 2 new Facebook vulnerabilities that has been recently patched and that I decided to shows you to understand the infinite possibilities an attacker have to hit also a robust platform […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2013
Cybercriminals Leveraging Facebook is the title of  a research that provided evidence that criminal organizations are exploiting Facebook for illegal activities. Cybercriminals Leveraging Facebook, this is the title of an interesting research conducted by Eric Feinberg, Ian Malloy and Frank Angiolelli that provided evidence of the existence of highly organized criminal networks that are exploiting the popular social network for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 10, 2013
A critical Facebook flaw exposed email address for any account, the discovery was made by Stephen Sclafani, security researcher and founder of PlayToWin. Another vulnerability menaces privacy of Facebook users allowing the disclosure of primary email address of any account. Stephen Sclafani, security researcher and founder of PlayToWin, described the attack technique in a blog post titled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2013
According to a recent research of Group-IB on cybercrime senior management is considered among most privileged targets. Group-IB is one of the leading companies in fraud prevention, cybercrime and high-tech crime investigations, it is IMPACT-ITU member and one of most active firms in the analysis if cyber criminal phenomena. The firm reported that cyber criminals use personal and confidential data of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2013
US Air Force published a notice that includes a paragraph on the use of  social media platforms for computer network exploitation. In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2013
Security Software Company PandaLabs has published the annual report on cyber threats proposing interesting statistics on the diffusion of malicious agent on personal computers during 2012. Malware diffusion has registered new records, the security firm detected 27 million new malicious codes, around 74,000 new samples per day, the attacks have targeted government offices and multinational […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 09, 2013
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) is the EUâs agency responsible for cyber security issues of the European Union, its last report âENISA Threat Landscape – Responding to the Evolving Threat Environmentâ, summarizing the principal threats and providing also useful indication on the emerging trends. The report proposes the list of top threats […]
