Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2014
Russian Tor exit node patches with malware the files downloaded

The researcher Josh Pitts of Leviathan Security Group identified a Russian Tor exit node that is patching the binaries downloaded by the users with malware. Once again Tor network is under attack, the researcher Josh Pitts of Leviathan Security Group has identified a Tor exit node that was used to patch the binaries downloaded by the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2014
Operation Pawn Storm is targeting military, government and media agencies

Trend Micro discovered a cyber-espionage operation dubbed  Operation Pawn Storm, which is targeting military, government and media entities worldwide. A new cyber espionage operation targeting military, government and media agencies on a global scale has been discovered by security experts at Trend Micro. Also in this case it seems that the threat actors behind the operation, dubbed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2014
Hackers have violated ticketing system based on NFC in Chile

Unknowns have hacked the NFC based electronic payment system used in Chile, the “Tarjeta BIP!”, spreading an Android hack that allows users to re-charge cards for free In Chile NFC electronic payment is already a reality, “Tarjeta BIP!” is the name of the payment system used to pay for public transportation with users’ smartphones that support the standard. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2014
Operation Distributed Dragons, thousands of machine compromised worldwide

Operation Distributed Dragons – Tiger Security firm has discovered a series of DDoS attacks from China and that appear as run by a structured organization. Security experts at the Italian Tiger Security firm have spotted a new wave of DDoS attacks that were originated in China and that appear as run by well organized APT. The expert identified […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 20, 2014
Phishing campaign via Dropbox exploits SSL of the popular cloud service

Experts at Symantec have detected a scam based on Dropbox accounts to serve phishing pages over secure communication channels. Recently a massive data leakage has interested DropBox, a week ago a guest account post on Pastebin four different documents, all claiming to be part of “the massive hack of 7,000,000 accounts”. The author also anticipated that there are “More to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2014
Cost of cybercrime continues to increase for US companies

The Ponemon Institute as published its fifth report on the cost of cybercrime which provides interesting data on impact on the US companies. Which is the cost of cybercrime suffered by US companies? The fifth annual report published by the Ponemon Institute and titled “2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cyber Crime” reveals that cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2014
Malvertising campaigns hit US military industry to steal secrets and intellectual property

A new wave of malvertising attacks finalized to cyber espionage is targeting military contractors to military secrets and intellectual property. Security experts at security company Invincea have uncovered a new malvertising campaign used as a attack vector for highly-targeted cyber espionage operations against at least three firms in the US military industry. The malvertising is becoming even more popular in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2014
Analyzing the HIGH-TECH CRIME TRENDS 2014 Report

Group-IB published the annual HIGH-TECH CRIME TRENDS 2014 Report, a document focused on high-tech crimes associated with traditional computer crime. Group-IB, a leading company in cybercrime prevention and investigations, has issued its annual report titled “GROUP-IB REPORT: HIGH-TECH CRIME TRENDS 2014″ which cover the second half of 2013 and the first half of 2014. The report is one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 17, 2014
South Korea need to overhaul the national ID system

ID system of South Korea faces a significant overhaul in response to major data breaches occurred in the last years which impacted the entire population. Several times we have discussed about the economic impact of a data breach, but in the majority of cases, they were just a raw estimation to give the experts an idea […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 16, 2014
Security Companies united against the Hidden Lynx APT and its weapons

Principal security firms united in a joint effort dubbed Operation SMN against the cyber espionage group known as Hidden Lynx and its arsenal. The Hidden Lynx APT is a China-based group of hackers that conducted numerous cyber espionage campaign against U.S. defense contractors and other foreign organizations. The name Hidden Lynx was assigned to the APT by experts at […]