Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
ISIS – Cyber Caliphate hackers are threatening Electronic War

Pro-Isis Hackers belonging to Cyber Caliphate hacking team threaten ‘Electronic War’ on US and Europe. Which are ISIS cyber capabilities? Is the Islamic State group able to engage a cyber war against Western countries? According to prominent hackers affiliated with the terrorist, the ISIS hackers have the abilities to hit computer systems in US and Europe. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
Security Affairs newsletter Round 9 – Best of the week from best sources

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Hiring hackers, how much is it? US SOCOM and The Special Forces to Scrutinize Social media Skynet, the US top-secret program to track terrorists PHP hash comparison flaw is […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2015
Chinese hackers hit Penn State University, 18K people impacted

The Penn State suffered a high sophisticated cyber attack that that seems to be originated from China and that exposed data belonging to 18K people. The Pennsylvania State University’s College of Engineering confirmed that it has been targeted by two “highly sophisticated” cyber attacks over the last two years. “Today (May 15), University leadership announced […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2015
FBI: researcher hacked plane in-flight, causing it to “climb”

The computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that he obtained the control of at least one commercial flight causing it to “climb”. A new search warrant filed in a federal court in New York state published Friday by the Canadian website APTN revealed that the aviation computer security researcher Chris Roberts reported the FBI that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2015
mSpy data breach exposes thousand kids to online predators

Recently e-mails, text messages, payments, locations, and other data related with mSpy users were posted on the Deep Web, thousand of kids are at risk. Last week, e-mails, text messages, payments, locations, and other data related with mSpy users were posted on the Deep Web. mSpy, is a software-as-a-service product that officially was designed to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2015
Cyberattacks on Oil and Gas Firms Launched with no Malware at all

Oil and gas industry targeted by hackers with a genuine looking windows file, not a malware. The attacks are ongoing for about two years. A unique targeted attack being underway for about two consecutive years exploits Windows file functions that look legitimate and a couple of homemade scripts – but not malware – in order […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2015
Chinese APT17 exploits Microsoft’s TechNet Portal to Host C&C IPs

The Chinese threat actor known as APT17 and DeputyDog has been using profile pages and forum threads on Microsoft’s TechNet web portal to host IP addresses for command and control (C&C) servers. Security experts at FireEye and the colleagues at Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center have published a report on the activities of the Chinese group […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2015
APT28 hacking crew plans attacks on financial institutions

According to a report published by the experts at root9B the hacking crew APT28 is planning to attack several financial institutions worldwide. In October 2014, security expert at FireEye published a report on the activities conducted by a group of Russian hackers, dubbed APT28, the hacking crew is behind long-running cyber espionage campaigns that targeted US defense contractors, European security organizations and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2015
Hackers drain money from Starbucks accounts linked to users’ credit cards

Hackers steal money from Starbucks mobile customers using linked credit cards, nearly 16 million customers who use the company app are at risk. Starbucks is the last victim of scammers, cyber criminals are syphoning money from the credit or debit card linked to the customers’ Starbucks accounts. The attack is quite simple for fraudsters, the criminal […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2015
Cyber threats scare a society increasingly dependent on technology

Experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices will be connected to the internet by 2020 will be exposed to an increasing number of cyber threats. Until the end of 2020, experts estimated that between 25 to 50 billion devices on the planet will be connected to the internet, and counting that the Internet […]