Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2015
A new phishing scam is targeting Yahoo users worldwide, this campaign could be ineffective if we share awareness about bad actors’ TTPs. A new large-scale scam is trying to deceive Yahoo users that are receiving a phishing email that asks for “Yahoo Account Confirmation.” The phishing email claims to be sent by Yahoo, it requests […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2015
British Airways Executive Club member accounts were hacked, it isn’t a data breach but hackers used credentials available in the underground. The popular security expert Graham Cluley reported that Members of British Airways Executive Club are noticing suspicious activities for their accounts. The Members of British Airways Executive Club observed that their accounts were mysteriously emptied of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Security Experts at Malwarebytes security firm spotted a new  Facebook worm that spreads itself by leveraging multiple cloud services. Social media are a privileged attack vector, recent reports published by the principal security firms confirm that cyber criminal are exploiting these platforms for illegal activities. Last disastrous news for the users of the popular social […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Expert at Cisco discovered a privacy breach caused by a software problem, which exposed personal information of users that opted for privacy setting. A software problem occurred at Google have exposed personal information of users that registered their website and had chosen to keep their profile private. The flaw affected the whois database that contains contact […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2015
A critical flaw affecting Google Apps for Work allows hackers to run malicious phishing campaigns by abusing any websiteâs domain name. A critical vulnerability affecting Google Apps for Work allows attackers to send phishing emails. The vulnerability in Google Apps for Work could be exploited to send emails by abusing any websiteâs domain name and run phishing campaign on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2015
Attackers behind the Arid Viper and the Yanbian Gang exploited sex  content for their campaigns against victims in Israel and Kuwait, and South Korea. Security experts at Trend Micro have uncovered a cyber espionage campaign, dubbed Operation Arid Viper, that targeted Israeli institutions. The Operation Arid Viper is run by Arab-speaking hackers that sought to extract […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 17, 2015
How cyber criminals use several phishing kits to run malicious campaigns and which is the economy behind this category of attacks? Most of the major banks and companies that suffer this type of attacks make people aware of phishing, but despite the high level of awareness of the threat, the phenomenon does not slow down, indeed seems to accelerate […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Cisco experts discovered a phishing campaign that is spreading fake Volume License Trojan Chanitor to corporate users and is able to evade sandboxes. A few weeks ago, multiple Cisco Managed Threat Defense (MTD) customers received an email that appeared as sent by the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC), which contains a link to login to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2015
Security experts at Sophos spotted a new phishing campaign targeting iCloud users. The attackers are interested in the victims’ financial data. Sophos security firm reported that threat actors are running phishing campaign against Apple iCloud users to steal financial data. The messages sent by bad actors are tailored to appear as legitimate security alerts issued by Apple. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2015
Following the Anthem data breach, cyber criminals launched phishing campaigns to harvest customers’ personal information and credentials. A few hours after disclosure of the news of the data breach suffered by the nation’s second largest health insurer Anthem cyber criminals started sending phishing emails related to the cyber attacks. The Anthem incident could potentially impact millions […]
