Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2016
Researchers have found links between the attacks on US state election systems and campaigns managed by alleged Russian state-sponsored hackers. Security experts at threat intelligence firm ThreatConnect have conducted an analysis on the IP addresses listed in the flash alert issued in August by the FBI that warned about two cyber attacks against the election […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 05, 2016
Experts from MalwareMustDie spotted a new ELF trojan backdoor, dubbed ELF Linux/Mirai,  which is now targeting IoT devices. Experts from MalwareMustDie have analyzed in August samples of a particular ELF trojan backdoor, dubbed ELF Linux/Mirai, which is now targeting IoT devices. The name of the malware is the same of the binary,”mirai.*,” and according to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2016
Two Hong Hong government departments were targeted by Chinese hackers belonging the APT3 group just before the legislative elections. Security experts from FireEye have discovered a new cyber espionage campaign launched by the Chinese APT3 group against Hong Kong Government before upcoming parliamentary elections that are to be held today September 4. The hackers targeted two Hong Kong government departments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2016
The Dutch Police has seized two servers belonging to Switzerland-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) provider Perfect Privacy, as part of an investigation. Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to build encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. The fight to the cybercrime is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2016
Experts from Fortinet discovered a Russian website called Fake-Game the offers a Phishing-as-a-Service platform to anyone. The Phishing attacks are still one of the most effective methods to grab users’ credentials on the web. Experts from Fortinet have discovered a Russian-language site called ‘Fake-Game’ that offers Phishing-as-a-Service. “During our monitoring, we discovered that this same business model is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 03, 2016
Now LeakedSource disclosed details from two Bitcoin data breaches that affected the bitcoin exchange BTC-E.com and the discussion forum Bitcointalk.org. The data breach notification service LeakedSource is becoming familiar to my readers, recently it reported the data breach suffered by many IT services, including Last.fm and DropBox, both occurred in 2012. Now LeakedSource disclosed details from […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
The notorious Romanian hacker Guccifer has been sentenced to 52 months in prison by a US court for aggravated identity theft and hacking. The notorious Romanian hacker Guccifer has been sentenced to prison by a US court. Marcel Lehel Lazar (44), this is the real name of Guccifer, has been sentenced to 52 months in prison […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
It has happened again, Mac users who were looking for the BitTorrent client Transmission might have been infected by the OSX/Keydnap malware. Security experts from ESET have spotted the popular BitTorrent client called Transmission distributing Mac malware called OSX/Keydnap that is used to steal the content of OS Xâs keychain and maintain a permanent backdoor on victims’PC. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 02, 2016
According to the breach notification service LeakedSource roughly 43 million Last.fm accounts were compromised in a 2012 incident. In June 2012, the online music service Last.fm was compromised by hackers, in response the company notified the incident to its users inviting them to change their passwords. Some experts speculated the security breach took place several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2016
SWIFT discloses more attacks against banks worldwide, pressures banks on security and urged member banks to implement the new SWIFT software by November 19. In the last months, a worrisome string of attacks against banks worldwide through the SWIFT system has alarmed the banking industry. The so-called “SWIFT hackers” have conducted multiple cyber attacks against […]
