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Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2019
Experts report a rampant growth in the number of malicious, lookalike domains

Cyber security firm Venafi announced it has uncovered lookalike domains with valid TLS certificates that appear to target major retailers. Venafi, Inc. is a private cybersecurity company that develops software to secure and protect cryptographic keys and digital certificates. Ahead of the holiday shopping season, security experts from Venafi conducted a study of typosquatted domains […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2015
Certifi-Gate, a new Android flaw allows hackers to control your mobile

Certifi-Gate is the name of a new vulnerability affecting Android mobile devices discovered by Check Point security that could be exploited to control them. Android users had a bad time after discovering the “Stagefright” vulnerability, but unfortunately other security issues are warning them. It was recently discovered a new vulnerability dubbed Certifi-Gate which could be […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2014
Shiqiang APT cyber espionage using RAT signed with stolen certificates

Security experts at McAfee Labs have discovered a new cyber espionage based on the malware digitally signed with stolel certificates. A recent research of McAfee Labs has identified a series of spear phishing attacks against non governmental entities and activists, the offensives which interested mainly organizations in China were conducted using malicious code signed with stolen digital […]