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Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2014

Bank of America customers targeted by a new malware campaign

Security experts at AppRiver detected a traffic spam spike linked to a new malware Campaign Targeting customers of Bank of America. Bank of America is being targeted by a new malicious campaign, cybercriminals are spreading a stealthy malicious financial malware to hit the clients of the financial institution. Security experts at AppRiver recently detected and blocked a set of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2014

Linkup , the ransomware that blocks Internet access and mines Bitcoin

Emsisoft has detected a new variant of malware dubbed Linkup (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Linkup), it is ransomware that blocks Internet access and mines Bitcoin. Emsisoft has detected a new variant of malware dubbed Linkup (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Linkup), it is ransomware presenting a singular behavior. Usually a ransomware locks victim’s computer or encrypts files requesting the payment of a ransom to unlock it, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2014

100 lines of code to Hack new Snapchat people verification

100 lines of code could hack new Snapchat people verification feature that displays nine images and requests new user to select the one containing a ghost. Snapchat is considered by many security experts a case study on how a lack of security by design could hit a large community of users impacting their privacy, a few […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2014

Spam campaign advertise WhatsApp for PC-beware it is a Trojan banker

Kaspersky Lab malware expert Dmitry Bestuzhev revealed a large-scale spam email campaign that is advertising the PC version of the mobile WhatsApp app to spread a banking trojan. A large-scale spam email campaign is advertising the PC version of the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, it’s a pity that the application does not actually exist […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2014

10 million Starbucks customers at risk for official iOS app flaw

Security researcher Daniel E. Wood discovered a vulnerability in the Starbucks official iOS app related to the insecure storage of user data. 10 million Starbucks customers who purchases drinks and food using their Smartphones are exposed to serious risk of data breach. This is yet another story in which a poor implementation of minimum security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2014

Flashback botnet is still active, Mac users are warned

Intego Malware Research Team discovered that OSX Flashback trojan is still active with sinkholing activity. Mac users must be aware. Flashback Trojan is a cyber threat known since 2011, it is a trojan horse that targeted a Java vulnerability on Mac OS X machines, early 2012 it spread to infect up to 600,000 machines as […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 03, 2014

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6 million usernames and numbers exposed and publicly available on a specifically created domain SnapchatDB.info. Recently I posted an article on a couple of serious flaws in the popular photo messaging application Snapchat, Gibson Security revealed that using a couple of exploits known by the name The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2013

Zeus, Cryptolocker and more, malware evolution according TrendMicro

A rapid look to last trends in malware development observed by security experts at TrendMicro, old threat including new improvements. Security experts have observed during last months an increase in the use of AutoIt coding language To Spread Malware and Toolsets. AutoIt is a very flexible scripting language used since 1999 in Windows environments. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2013

Snapchat users menaced by a couple of malicious exploits

Gibson Security revealed that The ‘Find Friends’ exploit and the ‘Bulk Registration’ Exploit menace the security and privacy of million of Snapchat users. Gibson Security has recently published the details of a couple of SnapChat vulnerabilities which could be exploited by hackers respectively to massively disclose users and associated phone numbers, and enable the creation fake accounts. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2013

Website traffic report shows an increase of malicious bots activity

Incapula security firm published a new report on the analysis of website traffic evidencing the increment for malicious activities. Researchers at the Incapsula security firm have published a new study on the nature of website traffic, early 2013 the company revealed that 51% of the overall traffic was generated by non-human entities and 60% of […]

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Bank of America customers targeted by a new malware campaign

Linkup , the ransomware that blocks Internet access and mines Bitcoin

100 lines of code to Hack new Snapchat people verification

Spam campaign advertise WhatsApp for PC-beware it is a Trojan banker

10 million Starbucks customers at risk for official iOS app flaw

Flashback botnet is still active, Mac users are warned

Snapchat hack is reality, 4.6M usernames and Numbers exposed

Zeus, Cryptolocker and more, malware evolution according TrendMicro

Snapchat users menaced by a couple of malicious exploits

Website traffic report shows an increase of malicious bots activity

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