Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2016
World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) confirms that Russian hackers breached its Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database. Hackers breached the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and have stolen Olympic athletes’ medical records, the hack was confirmed by the agency. According to the WADA, the hackers accessed the Anti-Doping Administration and Management System (ADAMS) database, security experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 14, 2016
Secret Service warns of Periscope Skimming probes, it the first time that law enforcement discovered attacks against ATMs conducted with these devices. The US Secret Service is warning banks and ATM vendors about a new ATM skimmer technology, the so-called ‘periscope skimming.’Â The device is composed of a skimming probe that crooks connect to the ATMâs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2016
A hacker leaked a data dump containing more than 320,000 Financial Records apparently stolen from an Israeli payment processor. Another data breach is in the headline, roughly 324,000 financial records have been leaked online. The financial data appears to have been stolen either from payment processor BlueSnap or its customer Regpack, a hacker published a link to the archive (a file Titled […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2016
The Israeli law enforcement arrested two youngsters suspected of operating the infamous vDoS booter. Israeli authorities have arrested two alleged operators of a DDoS service, named vDOS, as the result of an investigation conducted by the FBI. The popular security investigator Brian Krebs reported that the duo behind the vDOS booter service had earned more than $600,000 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 13, 2016
Vxers developed a new version of GovRAT, called GovRAT, that has been used to target government and many other organizations in the US. GovRAT is an old cyberespionage tool, it has been in the wild since 2014 and it was used by various threat actors across the years. Security experts from the threat intelligence company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Everyone is a potential victim, even the wannabe hackers that try to exploit Facebook Hacker Tools to hack into friends’ accounts. When dealing with cybercrime everyone, is a potential victim, even the hackers, this is the case of a Crimeware-as-a-Service hack that turns wannabe crooks into victims. For those who are looking to hack the Facebook accounts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 12, 2016
Experts from Sophos discovered Mal/Miner-C, a malware designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. Malware researchers from security firm Sophos have analyzed a new strain of malware detected as Mal/Miner-C that was designed to abuse resources of the infected machine to mine Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. The experts discovered that the new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2016
The researcher MalwareMustDie discovered LuaBot, a trojan completely coded in Lua language that is targeting Linux platforms to recruit them in DDoS botnet. Let’s continue our tour in Linux security, focusing on malicious code specifically designed to target such systems. The popular security researcher MalwareMustDie, who recently reported the new ELF trojan backdoorLinux/Mirai, also discovered a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
Another old and huge data breach was reported to LeakedSource, more than 33 million QIP records from 2011 have been compromised. Once again we are here to discuss a data breach, the victim is the Russian instant messaging service Quiet Internet Pager (QIP.ru.). According to the breach notification service LeakedSource, the leaked dump includes details of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 09, 2016
U.S. authorities have arrested two alleged members of the Crackas With Attitude group involved in dumping details of officials with the FBI and the DHS. The FBI has identified and arrested two men from North Carolina men that are suspected to be members of the notorious ‘Crackas With Attitude‘Â hacker group that dumped details of government […]
