Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2016
According to Andrew Komarov, Chief Intelligence Officer (CIO) at security firm InfoArmor, the Yahoo database was sold for $300,000 on the dark web. Recently Yahoo admitted one billion accounts exposed in a newly discovered data breach occurred in 2013. Hackers broke into the systems of Yahoo and accessed one billion user accounts containing names, addresses, phone […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2016
Microsoft discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day flaw on same targets. Security researchers have discovered two distinct APT groups, PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM, that exploited the same Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) in cyber espionage campaigns on Turkish citizens living in Turkey and various other European countries. Both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago, now identified as TeleBots, are targeting Ukrainian banks. The BlackEnergy hacker group that targeted the Ukrainian grid one year ago causing a power outage in the country are now targeting Ukrainian banks. The Ukrainian government accused Russia of being involved in the attack, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
Security researchers discovered a new phishing campaign leveraging Punycode and a bug in Office 365 defense systems to deceive victims. Office 365 business email users continue to be the target of phishing campaigns, a new wave of attacks was leveraging Punycode to avoid detection of Microsoftâs default security and desktop email filters. Punycode is a method added […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2016
The tech giant Yahoo admitted crooks have probably stolen details from more than a billion user accounts, and the incident is not linked to previous ones. Bad news for Yahoo!, the company admitted crooks have probably stolen details from more than a billion user accounts. In 2013, hackers broke into the systems of Yahoo and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2016
The Expedia employee, John Ly, is accused of hacking into executives computers to access corporate confidential information. Its no secret, cyber criminals are constantly looking towards greener pastures â money green that is. The most sought pasturesâŠ. insider trading and market manipulation. Itâs a perfect storm scenario with almost everyone losing but the hacker. Luckily […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2016
Experts from Doctor Web spotted new Trojans into the firmware of several dozens of low-cost Android smartphones and tablets. Again problems with low-cost Android smartphones and tablets, once again experts discovered certain mobile devices shipped with malicious firmware. According to malware researchers from antivirus firm Dr.Web, the firmware of a large number of popular Android devices […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2016
The Europol announced a joint international operation targeting teenagers suspected to have used DDOS cyber attack tools. The Europan law enforcement agency Europol has announced that police from 13 countries across the world have arrested 34 users of DDoS attack tools and interviewed and warned 101 suspects. “From 5 to 9 December 2016, Europol and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2016
According to a new report published by Kaspersky Lab, the number of ransomware infections suffered by companies threefold from January to September. The number of ransomware infections suffered by companies continues to increase and according to a new report published by the security firm Kaspersky Lab, it increased threefold from January to September. One in every five businesses […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2016
Zcash (ZEC) is a new cryptocurrency that promises a total anonymity, it is already attracting a great interest from miners and of course cybercriminals. Zcash (ZEC) is the cryptocurrency of the moment, it was presented on October, 2016 and respect the popular Bitcoin it is totally anonymous. With this premise, the Zcash has attracted a great […]
