Mexico

Pierluigi Paganini August 22, 2018
Dark Tequila Banking malware targets Latin America since 2013

Kaspersky Labs detected a sophisticated piece of banking malware dubbed Dark Tequila that was used to target customers of several Mexican banks. Security experts from Kaspersky Labs have spotted a sophisticated strain of banking malware dubbed Dark Tequila that was used to target customers of several Mexican financial institutions. According to the researchers, the complex Dark Tequila malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2017
Mexican tax refund MoneyBack site exposed 400GB of sensitive customer data

Experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed 400GB of sensitive information. Another huge data leak made the headlines, experts from security firm Kromtech discovered the Mexican VAT refund site MoneyBack exposed sensitive customer information online. because of a misconfigured database. Kromtech discovered the unsecured CouchDB during a routine security audit. The Mexican VAT refund […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2017
Mexican Government was spying on Journalists and Activists with Pegasus Surveillance software

Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with the powerful surveillance software Pegasus developed by the NSO Group. Journalists and activists in Mexico accused the government of spying on them with a powerful surveillance software. According to the journalists, the authorities used an Israeli spyware to hack their mobile devices. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2016
Could hackers have hacked election to make Peña Nieto President?

A Columbian hacker claims he helped the candidate Enrique Peña Nieto in winning the Mexican presidential election in 2012. Until now we have seen something of similar only in the TV series, but the reality could overwhelm the fiction because a Columbian hacker claims he helped Enrique Peña Nieto in winning Mexican presidential election. The […]