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Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2016
Netia SA, the second telecom company hacked by a Ukrainian hacker

A Ukrainian Hacker has breached the servers of the Polish Telecom Company Netia SA and leaked on an underground forum the stolen data. A Ukrainian hacker going by the pseudonym of Pravy Sektor has hacked the servers of Poland’s telecom company Netia SA, the second largest telecom company in the country. The hackers stole personal details […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2016
Hacking mobile via hidden voice commands embedded in YouTube videos

A group of researchers has devised a new method for hacking mobile devices by using hidden voice commands in YouTube videos. A group of researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University has devised a method for hacking mobile devices by using hidden voice commands embedded in YouTube videos. In order to hack […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2016
Hacker Interviews – s1ege

Today, thanks to the support of Aveek Sen, I have interviewed the hacker that goes online with the pseudonymous of s1ege. s1ege is a member of the Ghost Squad and was one of earlier components of the AnonGhost hacker collective. The split occurred as Mauritania Attacker and few others of AnonGhost joined ISIS. Enjoy the interview […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2016
Realstatistics campaign leads to ransomware via compromised sites

Threat actors in the wild are behind the Realstatistics campaign are leveraging on out-of-date CMSs to deliver the CryptXXX ransomware. Security experts from Sucuri security firm have spotted a new ransomware-based campaign dubbed ‘Realstatistics’ conducted by threat actors in the past two weeks. “Our Incident Response Team (IRT) has been tracking a mass infection campaign over the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 10, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 68 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. First of all let inform you that at the #infosec16 SecurityAffairs was awarded as The Best European Personal Security Blog http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/48202/breaking-news/securityaffairs-best-european-personal-security-blog.html THANK YOU! Boffins spotted over 100 snooping Tor HSDir nodes spying on Dark Web sites A Chinese gang […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
Hacker breached an Amazon server containing 80,000 login credentials

The hacker behind the Twitter account 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached one of the Amazon servers containing 80,000 login credentials of Kindle users. The hacker 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached an Amazon server containing login credentials of Kindle users. As a proof the hack, the hacker leaked online more than 80,000 credentials belonging to Amazon […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
NetTraveler APT still targets European and Russian interests

Security experts from ProofPoint have spotted a new campaign operated by the APT Group NetTraveler that is targeting Russian and European organizations. NetTraveler is an ATP group first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, when researchers discovered an espionage activity against over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives from the malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 09, 2016
Facebook Messenger implements End-to-End Encryption

Facebook Messenger Starts Testing End-to-End Encryption with Secret Conversations, it is already available for a limited number of users. Facebook is planning to use end-to-end encryption for its Messenger app and has begun rolling out the feature. Facebook has called the new feature ‘Secret Conversations’ and will allow Messenger users to exchange messages that no […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
Ghost Squad hackers dox United Cyber Caliphate including Mauritania Attacker

Hacktivists from Ghost Squad Hacker group made revealed the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate. Ghost Squad Hackers (GSH), a hacktivist group made public the identities of hackers affiliated with the ISIS cyber army called United Cyber Caliphate, including leader Mauritania Attacker. Facebook:https://t.co/VU25BTX4Gc pic.twitter.com/h7g4D1gQjd — s1ege (@s1ege_) 7 […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 08, 2016
PoS systems infected in 1 in 20 Wendy’s stores, credit card exposed

The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought, payment card data exposed in more than 1000 stores. The hack suffered by Wendy’s fast-food chain was bigger than thought and exposed sensitive information, including credit card data. Roughly one on three Wendy’s burger was hacked, a malware has infected PoS systems. Just after the […]