Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2017
The recent spike in the Bitcoin price and the fees associated with each transaction are making Bitcoin a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground. We have a long debated the use of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the criminal underground. Virtual currencies have a crucial role in facilitating illicit commerce, it is normal that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 26, 2017
Researchers from the mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store, Google promptly removed them. Experts from mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store. The fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed by Google Play after security researchers reported their discovery […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 24, 2017
Facebook’s is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism, it now looks for users in photos they’re not tagged in. Facebook is rolling out a new feature for its photo tagging mechanism that will now scan newly uploaded photos and alert all the users it recognizes in that photo. The feature aims to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 23, 2017
The Chinese authorities have sentenced a man to five-and-a-half years in prison for selling a VPN service without the authorization. China continues to intensify the monitoring of the cyberspace applying, the authorities always fight any services that could be used to bypass its censorship system known as the Great Firewall. The Great Firewall project already blocked access to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 20, 2017
Experts discovered that the Windows 10 facial recognition security feature Hello can be spoofed using a photo of an authorized user. Security experts at pen-test firm Syss have discovered that the Windows 10 facial recognition security feature dubbed Hello can be spoofed in the simplest way, using a photo of an authorized user. “Microsoft face authentication in Windows 10 is an enterprise-grade identity […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2017
The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit has gone bankrupt after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The South Korea Cryptocurrency Exchange Youbit shuts down after suffering a major cyber attack for the second time this year. The company announced bankrupt on Tuesday after being hacked for the second time in the last eight months, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2017
Security researchers spotted a sophisticated malware campaign, tracked as Zealot campaign targeting Linux and Windows servers to install Monero miners. Security researchers from F5 Networks spotted a sophisticated malware campaign, tracked as Zealot campaign (after the name zealot.zip, one of the files dropped on targeted servers), targeting Linux and Windows servers to install Monero cryptocurrency miners. The campaign was detected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2017
The Russian pipeline giant Transneft admitted its computers were used for mining Monero cryptocurrency, the company removed the malware from its computers. The Russian pipeline giant Transneft announced its systems were infected with a Monero cryptocurrency miner. The company confirmed it has successfully removed the threat from its systems, the company spokesman Igor Demin told Reuters the cryptomining […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 15, 2017
According to a German court, the BND must not store the metadata of international phone calls for the purpose of intelligence analysis. Just a week ago, we discussed the German Government is preparing a law that will force hardware vendors to include a backdoor in their products and to allow its unit to hack back, now German […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]
