Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2015
A research conducted by experts at Symantec highlights disturbing security failures in the IoT devices present in today connected home. The purpose of IoT is connect all type of devices that we have at home, let’s say I am at my work and I want to arrive at home and have my air conditioner at […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
71 percent of organizations were victims of successfully cyber attacks in 2014 according to the â2015 Cyberthreat Defense Reportâ report. The CyberEdge Group published an interesting report, titled â2015 Cyberthreat Defense Reportâ that in line with similar studies confirms the increase in the number of successful cyber attacks against organizations. The report analyzed data provided by 814 organizations, it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2015
DHS ICS-CERT MONITOR report reveals that most critical infrastructure attacks involve APTs, but organizations lack monitoring capabilities. The DHSâs Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued its new ICS-CERT MONITOR report related to the period September 2014 â February 2015. The ICS-CERT MONITOR report According to the report, the Industrial Control Systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2015
TeslaCrypt is a new strain of ransomware, spotted in the wild by experts at Emsisoft, which is also targeting users of principal gaming platforms. A new strain of ransomware dubber TeslaCrypt was spotted in the wild by the researchers at the security firm Emsisoft. TeslaCrypt was discovered at the end of February, researchers at Bromium that analyzed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Obama Administration proposes giving courts more power to issue botnet injunctions, a measure necessary to fight the diffusion of malicious infrastructures. The US Government has proposed an amendment that would enable the Department of Justice to seek an injunction to prevent the diffusion of botnets. The Obama’s Administration would add activities like the operation of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2015
European Centre for Information Policy and Security (ECIPS) reported identity thefts to Skype, but the company refused to take down the fake account. Skype refused to take down a fake account after it was notified by the European Centre for Information Policy and Security, ECIPS that it was hosting two fake accounts in the name […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender revealed that crooks used seemingly harmless help files to distribute a variant of the popular ransomware CryptoWall. The cybercrime never ceases to surprise, every time we discuss a new and effective technique to deceive victims and evade detection mechanisms. Security experts at Bitdefender have discovered a new spam campaign that targeted a few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2015
Experts at Trustwave have discovered a spam campaign composed of several hundred messages trying to serve Dridex trojan though xml documents. Early 2015 security experts discovered a variant of banking malware dubbed Dridex that was spread through a phishing campaign using Microsoft Excel documents embedding malicious macro to infect victims’ machines. The Dridex malware implements features […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2015
British NCA has arrested a 23-year-old man suspected to be a member of the hacking crew that run the attack on the US Department of Defense in the 2014. British law enforcement has identified and arrested a 23-year-old man over a hacking attack on the US Department of Defense on June 15, 2014. The law […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2015
Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that following the SIGA data breach, confidential data belonging to US military personnel were exposed. A bad news for the US military, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service (AAFES) confirms that, following a the data breach of the German telecom company SIGA Telecom and an AAFES contractor occurred on March 5, […]
