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Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2014

A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Security Researchers at Symantec detected a new Sophisticated Phishing Scam that is targeting the Google Docs Users with complex social engineering tricks. Phishing is still considerable as one of the major cyber threats, its impact on the IT industry is devastating considering that attackers are adopting new techniques even more sophisticated. Principal security firms and CERTs […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 12, 2014

Abusing Facebook Access Token with Man-in-the-Middle Attack

The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including access token. Facebook is vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle Attack, The Egyptian penetration tester Ahmed Elsobky discovered a serious flaw that allows attackers to sniff user’s traffic including private information. “We’d actually received an earlier report from another researcher regarding this […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2014

The marketing approach of cybercrime to phishing emails

Mark Sparshott, director at Proofpoint, explained that cybercrime manages phishing emails using techniques similar to those used by the marketing industry. Phishing is still considerable on of principal cyber threats for Internet users, it is even more used to spread malware and link to compromised websites, for this reason cybercriminals are adopting new and innovative […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2014

Lack of auth in 3G/4G USB modems exposes control panels to hackers

Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G/4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers for spear phishing attacks. The researcher Andreas Lindh has discovered serious vulnerabilities in an unknown number of 3G and 4G USB modems that can be exploited by attackers to steal user’s credential. The expert has found a Cross Site […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014

Israeli Defense computer hacked via spear phishing attack

Aviv Raff, CTO at Seculert, confirmed that the attackers have penetrated into the network of Israeli Defense accessing to 15 computers. Israeli Defense is another illustrious victim of spear phishing attack, just on Friday Microsoft suffered a similar attack and attackers breached the email accounts of its staff accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Reuters agency […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2013

Dexter Malware, the rise of malware that hits point of sales

Security experts at Arbor Networks have found a couple of servers used to arrange a malicious campaign against PoS with Dexter malware. At the end of 2012, Israel based company Seculert notified about Dexter malware, used for parsing memory dumps of specific POS software related processes, looking for Track 1 / Track 2 credit card data. Dexter […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2013

New cyber attack against The Washington Post

Security experts at Mandiant have discovered that hackers break into Washington Post servers stealing employee users credentials hashes. Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I’m writing it is still not clear […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2013

Facebook vulnerability allows to view hidden Facebook Friend List

Researcher Irene Abezgauz from the Quotium Seeker Research Center discovered a Facebook flaw that allows anyone to see a profile’s private friend list. Facebook is the privileged target for hackers and cybercriminals, the popular social network is a mine of data that could be used to acquire information on a specific target or to conduct […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2013

Hacking Google Gmail accounts exploiting password reset system flaw

Security researcher Oren Hafif demonstrated how to hack a Google Gmail account exploiting a serious flaw in the password reset process. A serious vulnerability in the password reset process of Google account allows an attacker to hijack any account, this is the sensational discovery made by security researchers Oren Hafif. “that password recovery is often in […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2013

Energy industry warned over threat of cyberattacks, alarm raised by UAE

The energy industry continues to be a privileged target for cyber attacks of hacktivists, state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals. The alarm from UAE Oil and gas companies are considerable privileged targets of cyber attacks, cybercriminals, state-sponsored hackers and hacktivists daily menace security of infrastructure in the energy industry. The number of attacks worldwide against Oil and […]

spear phishing

A sophisticated phishing scheme is targeting Google Docs Users

Abusing Facebook Access Token with Man-in-the-Middle Attack

The marketing approach of cybercrime to phishing emails

Lack of auth in 3G/4G USB modems exposes control panels to hackers

Israeli Defense computer hacked via spear phishing attack

Dexter Malware, the rise of malware that hits point of sales

New cyber attack against The Washington Post

Facebook vulnerability allows to view hidden Facebook Friend List

Hacking Google Gmail accounts exploiting password reset system flaw

Energy industry warned over threat of cyberattacks, alarm raised by UAE

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