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Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018
Researchers And The FBI Work Together to Take Down the Russian VPNFilter Botnet Targeting Home Routers

Researchers and the FBI are working together to take down the dreaded VPNFilter botnet composed of hundreds of thousands of compromised devices. For several months, there have been rumors and vague warnings about highly skilled adversaries targeting critical infrastructure. Last week we learned some details about the warning, why you might be impacted and how […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2018
Reading the 2017 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends in the last 12 months. The first figure that captures […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2018
UK NCSC, DHS and the FBI Warn of Russian hacking campaign on Western networks

UK NCSC, DHS, and the FBI warn of Russian hacking campaign on Western networks, state-sponsored hackers are targeting network infrastructure key components. US and Britain government agencies warn of Russian state-sponsored cyber attacks to compromise government and business networking equipment. Russian hackers aim to control the data flaw “to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 19, 2018
DHS and FBI accuse Russian Government of hacking US critical infrastructure

Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian Last week, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. The US-CERT blamed the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 27, 2018
Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite can unlock every iPhone device on the market

The Israeli mobile forensics firm Cellebrite has designed a technology that allows it to unlock almost any iPhone, including the latest iPhone X. We have debated for a long time the legal dispute between Apple and the FBI for unlocking the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5c. The tech giant refused to help the US authorities to unlock the mobile […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2018
Watch out, cyber criminals are using fake FBI emails to infect your computer

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning of a new malware campaign aimed at infecting victims with weaponized attachments. The Feds’ Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning of a new spam campaign aimed at infecting victims with a ransomware. According to an alert issued on Wednesday by the IC3, numerous citizens filled complaints after received […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 14, 2018
Fappening – A fourth man has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities

Fappening – A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. A fourth hacker, George Garofano (26), of North Branford, has been charged with hacking into over 250 Apple iCloud accounts belonging to celebrities. Garofano had been arrested by the FBI and a federal […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 22, 2017
DHS and FBI warn of ongoing attacks on energy firms and critical infrastructure

The US DHS and the FBI have issued a warning that APT groups are actively targeting energy firms and critical infrastructure. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI have issued a warning that APT groups are actively targeting government departments, and firms working in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2017
FBI Director – Terrorists could launch drone attacks very soon

FBI director Christopher Wray warns of terrorists are planning to use drones in attacks, the threat is considered as imminent. This week, FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Congress that terrorists may use drones in attacks against the United States, the official described the threat as imminent. “We do know that terrorist organizations have an interest in using […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 09, 2017
FBI masqueraded the NIT in a video-bait to unmask sextortionist on Tor

The FBI used a NIT involving a specially crafted video file to unmask a sextortionist that via Tor was threatening youngsters. The FBI has used once again the network investigative technique (NIT) for unmasking Tor users, this time the feds used it to arrest a suspected sextortionist. The man is accused of having tricked young […]