Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2016
Just in a week several new ransomware variants, services, and updates have been discovered in-the-wild, disclosed publicly, and thoroughly analyzed. Statistical Summary This week, in a span of just five (5) days (Monday, May 9th, 2016 – Friday, May 13th, 2016), through the collaborative efforts of several organizations and individual analysts around the globe, several […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 15, 2016
Experts at the BAE security firms collected evidence that demonstrates the malware used in the recent cyberheists is linked to 2014 Sony Pictures hack. A second bank was a victim of a malware-based attack, the news was recently confirmed by the SWIFT. The investigation conducted by the security researchers at BAE Systems are making the situation very intriguing because […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
The SWIFT announced that a second commercial bank was a victim of a cyber heist, the crime appears to be part of a broad online attack on global banking. A second malware-based attack hit the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system. The news was spread by the SWIFT on Thursday, the attack has many similarities with […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
Azeem Aleem, Â Director for the Advanced Cyber Defense Services Practice – EMEA at RSA, shares its vision on the evolution of threats in the next future. The last 14 months have highlighted that attacks domains are expanding. We have seen the trends with OPM data breach, to sensitive PII information leak at Anthem breach and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2016
Researchers at Trend Micro discovered that Pawn Storm threat actor targeted the political party of Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Christian Democratic Union. Security experts follow a long time the operations of the Russian-linked Pawn Storm cyber spies, aka APT 28, Sednit, Sofacy, Fancy Bear and Tsar Team. In October 2014, security experts at Trend Micro spotted a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 12, 2016
In March 2016 experts from FireEye spotted a malicious campaign conducted by a financially motivated threat actor that leveraged on a zero-day exploit. According to security experts at FireEye, a sophisticated criminal organization targeted more than 100 organizations in North America. Most of the victims are in the retail, hospitality and restaurant sectors. Threat actor […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2016
The Euro 2016 will be held in June in France and online fraudsters already started launching football-themed spam campaigns on the event. <img height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=”” style=”display:none” src=”https://www.facebook.com/tr?ev=6037454831409&cd[value]=0.00&cd[currency]=RUB&noscript=1″ /> Major events such as the Euro 2016 represent a great opportunity for criminal organizations. In conjunction with international football tournaments such as the World Cup and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2016
Researchers at TrendMicro have analyzed online activities of terrorists identifying the techniques and tools used for their propaganda. Using vulnerabilities in software, websites, and web applications as attack vectors, hosting malicious components in cloud services. Other than this if there’s any service getting launched in the future, there will be always chances of abuse. Experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2016
This is a novelty in the cyber criminal underground, crooks behind the new born CyptMix ransomware promise to donate the fee to charity. No doubts, a very creative idea to extort money to the victims enticing them to pay for a good cause and telling them to think to have the opportunity to help the children. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 03, 2016
Following the recent security breach suffered by the Qatar National Bank has assured that its systems are “fully secure”. Sequel to a recent cyber-attack that led to a large chunk of files purportedly stolen from the financial institutionâs systems being dumped online, Qatar National Bank has assured that its systems are “fully secure”. The bank […]
