Pierluigi Paganini
July 17, 2015
The experts at Trend Micro discovered GamaPoS, a new PoS malware that is spread through the Andromeda botnet in the US and Canada. GamaPoSÂ is the name of the last PoS malware used by criminal crews to steal credit card data from the memory of payment systems. Security experts at Trend Micro discovered which discovered the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2015
A former intern at FireEye firm has been arrested for developing and distributing the sophisticated Android malware dubbed Dendroid. A former intern at FireEye firm has been arrested for developing and distributing the sophisticated Android malware dubbed Dendroid.  Experts at Symantec in March 2014 discovered a new HTTP Android Remote administration tool, named Dendroid, available on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2015
Epic Games announced that one of the forum websites it maintains has been hacked and the attackers have gained access to users’ sensitive data. Epic Games is one of the most popular video game development companies, Unreal Tournament, Jazz Jackrabbit, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade are the most popular game series designed by the gaming […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2015
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new strain of TeslaCrypt ransomware, version 2.0, Â which was improved in a significant way. Malware researchers at Kaspersky detected a new strain of the TeslaCrypt ransomware (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Bitman.tk), so-called TeslaCrypt 2.0, which includes a number of improvements. This ransomware also encrypts video game files, but the most significant improvement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2015
Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team data breach revealed that the company supported the FBI in the investigation on Tor users. While the security experts are continuing to analyze the impressive amount of data stolen from the Hacking Team, new revelation are circulating over the Internet. Among the clients of the Italian security firm, there […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2015
An international joint effort of law enforcement allowed the arrest of dozen people active on the popular Darkode crime forum. A joint operation run by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in Europe and Brazil have allowed the identification and the arrest of more than 60 people suspected of carrying out hacking crimes. According to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2015
Documents leaked online after the Hacking Team hack revealed that the company used a UEFI BIOS rootkit to gain persistence for its spyware software. The recent data breach suffered by the surveillance firm Hacking Team is shocking the IT security industry, the hackers leaked company emails, source codes and contracts revealing uncomfortable truths. Security experts mainly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2015
Security researchers at Symantec have analyzed Seaduke, a sophisticated Trojan used by threat actors behind the âDukeâ malware family. Security experts at Symantec security firm have analyzed the Trojan.Seaduke, a malware that was used by the APT group behind the Duke espionage campaigns that targeted numerous government organizations worldwide. The Seaduke has many similarities with other […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 14, 2015
Following the Hacking Team data breach, the security researchers discovered the third Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability. A third Adobe Flash Player zero-day has been discovered since the HackingTeam breach. Thanks to the breach of the Hacking Team‘s private files, the third Adobe Flash zero-day has been made publicly accessible. “After two Adobe Flash player zero-days disclosed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2015
According to TheHackerNews the Cloudminr.io Bitcoin Mining Service has been hacked, its database is available online for 1 Bitcoin. Colleagues at The Hacker News just reported that Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and the scaring news is that the entire database is available online for sale for 1 Bitcoin. The hackers have compromised the […]
