Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2014
Security experts at Kasperky Lab has uncovered the Luuuk banking fraud campaign which stolen half a million euros in a single week from a single bank. Experts at Kaspersky Labs discovered new banking Trojan dubbed Luuuk which hit the customers of a single European financial institution. In one week, Luuuk trojan targeted a single European bank, not […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2014
Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab have released the results of their analysis on the global C2 infrastructure used by the Italian firm HackingTeam. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab and Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto have released the results of their analysis on the  global command and control […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2014
Largest DDoS attack hit PopVote, Hong Kong Democracy voting website.  Experts at CloudFlare observed a three hundred gigabits per second DDoS attack. The largest ever and most severe Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in the history has recently hit the online democracy poll promoting opinion on the upcoming Hong Kong elections. The system under attack is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2014
Which is the impact of the Windows XP End of Life on the critical infrastructure? Which are the risks and the mitigation strategies that could be adopted? This week I had the pleasure and the honor to participate as a speaker for a seminar at Rome Security Summit 2014, the theme of the event was “Impact […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2014
The RSA Research Team has discovered the offer of a complete collection of malware through open channels like social media and emails. RSA Research has recently published an interesting update on the underground sale of malware tool, the experts have discovered a server who is offering a set of spyware tools for sale under the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2014
Hundreds of Facebook users from Portugal, Belgium, India, Romania, Serbia and other countries got infected with a new Bitcoin mining Trojan. Social media represents a privileged target for cybercrime, the last threat that is menacing Facebook users is a new malicious campaign which spread a Trojan with mining capabilities. Security Expert at Bitdefender firm discovered that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2014
The FBI has formed a new cybercrime task force with the NYPD and the Metropolitan Transit Authority to investigate on cyber crimes. Cybercrime is considered by governments an emergency to mitigate urgently, criminal activities are causing large losses to the global economy as reported in the recent report published by McAfee. The FBI created a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2014
More than 32000 servers containing motherboards manufactured by Supermicro expose admin passwords in the clear, it is a godsend for hackers. AÂ significant number of servers containing motherboards manufactured by Supermicro exposes administrator passwords, the situation is worrying considering that the problem is well known and a series of patches has been already released to fix […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2014
Hosting service Code Spaces goes out of business due to a cyber attack after an attempt of extortion by a gang of cyber criminals. Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform, has been brought down by a serious cyber attack which has caused its out of business, the attackers have deleted the data and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2014
Security experts at Zimperium firm revealed that LinkedIn users could be potentially vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks leveraging an SSL stripping. A new research is scaring users of LinkedIn revealing that they could be potentially vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks leveraging an SSL stripping. Despite the US security firm Zimperium reported the problem to LinkedIn more than a […]
