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 29, 2016
Security Experts at FireEye discovered a new strain of POS malware dubbed CenterPOS that is threatening the retail systems. In the last 2/3 years, we have seen a significant increase in the number of POS malware, their diffusion is becoming even more worrying. We read about many high-profile breaches that involved high-complex malware targeting payment systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2016
The cPanel Inc. company that manages the popular web hosting account management tool is warning customers about a possible data breach occurred over the weekend. According to the cPanel firm customers’ account information may have been compromised, hackers tried to access a database containing usersâ data, including names, salted passwords, and contact information. cPanel Inc. added that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 28, 2016
ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security I’m very happy to announce the publication of the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 (ETL 2015), this is the fifth report issued by the European Agency. The ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 summarizes top cyber threats, experts have identified […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 27, 2016
The Turkish security researcher Utku Sen was blackmailed by hackers behind the Magic ransomware to close his projects. The developers behind the open source-based âMagicâ ransomware are blackmailing the creator of Hidden Tear and EDA2 in order to force the developer to abandon the projects. Recently I have written about the RANSOM_CRYPTEAR.B ransomware developed Utku Sen starting from a proof-of-concept […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 26, 2016
According to Palo Alto Networksâ Unit 42 the Chinese APT group Codoso has been targeting organizations in various industries in a new wave of cyber attacks. The group of experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have uncovered a new cyber espionage operation conducted by the Chinese AT Codoso (aka C0d0so0 or Sunshop Group). The Codoso hacking crew has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The victims of the infamous TeslaCrypt ransomware can now rejoice, there is a free tool to decrypt files encrypted by TeslaCrypt and TeslaCrypt 2.0 TeslaCrypt is one of the most insidious ransomware first detected in the wild in 2015, today I have a good news for its victims. TeslaCrypt was first detected in February 2015, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 25, 2016
The latest variant of CryptoWall 4.0, one of the most popular and dangerous ransomware threats, has been recently added to the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. In my 2016 Cyber Security Predictions, I have predicted the criminal practices of the extortion will reach levels never seen before. Cyber criminals will threaten victims with ransomware and DDoS attack in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2016
Researchers spotted a new espionage campaign relying on a number of RATs including the powerful Trochilus threat. Security experts have uncovered a new remote access Trojan (RAT) named Trochilus that is able to evade sandbox analysis. The Trochilus malware was used to targeted attacks in multi-pronged cyber espionage operations. Experts at Arbor Networks uncovered a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 23, 2016
The Austrian engineering firm FACC which designs Airbus, Boeing aero parts was victim of a significant cyber attack. I always remark the importance of cyber security in a business context, a proper cyber security posture is important like the finances of a company. A cyber security incident could have serious effects on the business continuity […]
