Pierluigi Paganini
January 29, 2016
The British branch of the HSBC bank has suffered for the second time in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline. It’s happened again, HSBC customers were not able to access the online services of the bank due to a DDoS attack that hit the financial institution. “HSBC UK internet banking was attacked this morning. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 21, 2016
Security experts at IBM X-Force team discovered a new hacking campaign based on the infamous Dridex trojan. Security experts at IBM X-Force team discovered a new wave of attacks based on the Dridex malware targeting British businesses. The malware has targeted rich UK bank accounts in a new campaign that is operated by threat actors well-resourced, a criminal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 18, 2015
A group of hackers known as VandaSec claims three ISIS Twitter accounts trace back to computers belonging to the UK government. According to the revelation of a group of hackers known as VandaSec, at least three Islamic State Twitter social media accounts are run from IP addresses linked to the British governmentâs Department for Work and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2015
Cyber terrorists can target UK infrastructure, with the odds being in favor of targeting the power grid, rather than the Internet broadband network. Cyber terrorists are probably going to target the UK and more specifically focus on something that will create chaos in the country. After the devastating incidents of Paris in November, many people […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 09, 2015
Documents published by the UK Government reveal that the UK’s National Crime Agency has the hacking capabilities, so called equipment interference. We have debated for a long time about hacking capabilities of principal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Many documents leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the UK intelligence agency, the GCHQ has the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2015
According to Vodafone UK, criminals used the stolen data obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts. Personal details belonging to roughly 2,000 Vodafone customers have been compromised. According to Vodafone, cyber criminals used the stolen data (emails and passwords) obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customersâ accounts between […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 30, 2015
A few days after the arrest of 15-year-old in Northern Ireland, the British Police arrested a second in connection with the TalkTalk breach. There is a second arrest for the TalkTalk hack, the UKÂ Police have arrested a second individual as part of the investigation into the recent data breach suffered by the company. Also in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
The Dridex Banking Trojan has risen again despite the recent operation conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. Spam campaign relying on the Dridex malware continues to threaten banking users across the world despite the operations conducted by law enforcement on a global scale. We left Dridex malware spreading across the Europe, in particular targeting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
The UK Metropolitan Police announced to have arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses a 15-Year-Old alleged involved in the TalkTalk attack. The UK Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a 15-Year-Old in connection to the recent data breach suffered by the British ISP TalkTalk. Law enforcement from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 24, 2015
Hackers that recently breached the systems at TalkTalk IPS have stolen ‘incomplete’ customer bank data, states an official announcement issued by the firm. This week the TalkTalk Telecom Group plc has publicly disclosed that four million subscribers  have been impacted by a âsustained cyberattackâ that hit its servers. On Friday, the TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding confirmed personally […]
