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Pierluigi Paganini October 23, 2016
InTheCyber discovered a serious flaw in messaging systems

Researchers at InTheCyber firm have discovered a new easy exploitable and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. InTheCyber – Intelligence & Defense Advisors (www.inthecyber.com), a leader in offensive & Defensive Cyber Security, has discovered in its R&D Labs a new easy and dangerous vulnerability affecting messaging systems. Voicemail caller-id spoofing it’s a quite old flaw. When the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 26, 2016
The Libyan Scorpions group is behind a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia

The Cyberkov Security Incident Response team spotted a cyber espionage campaign in Lybia conducted by a group named Libyan Scorpions. Thinking of Libya we have in mind a non-stable political country where various forces fight for the control of strategic territories and oil productions. but only a few experts know about cyber malicious activities in the area. Evidently, something […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2016
ISIS members shared a list of targets in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia on a Telegram group

The Israeli intelligence firm Intsights has breached a Telegram ISIS group, members shared info on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. The Israeli security firm Intsights claims to have breached a Telegram group run by jihadists that were planning to attack a list of US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. The company announced to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2016
Telegram massive hack in Iran, what is happened?

Hackers accessed Telegram accounts in Iran, a security duo investigated the security breach and will present its findings at the Black Hat Conference. 15 million Iranian Telegram accounts have been compromised, users have reportedly had their personal information exposed (phone number, Telegram ID). The security researchers Collin Anderson and Claudio Guarnieri have investigated the case, more […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2016
WhatsApp vs Telegram in Terms of Encryption and Features

Compare and contrast WhatsApp and Telegram, so as to see which of the two messaging apps offers the best option for encrypted chat. Messaging apps have been increasing rapidly in popularity. WhatsApp has gone over one billion users and Telegram claims to have over 350,000 people a day signing up for its services. So, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2016
Hackers find a way to send massive messages on Telegram

Security researchers have found a vulnerability that could allow attackers to send massive messages on Telegram bypassing its limitations. Security researchers have devised a method to send massive messages on Telegram. The experts have found a flaw that allows them so send messages of any size as showed in the proof-of-concept provided by the researchers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
Terrorists and dark web, what is their relationship?

A new study reveals that terrorist organizations are largely uninterested in using resources and services hosted on the dark web. Every day I receive a lot of requests about terrorist activities in the Dark Web, and contrary to what you might think anonymizing networks like Tor and I2P aren’t cyber places preferred by terrorist organizations. My […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 19, 2015
Telegram messaging service tries to ban ISIS, but..

Telegram messaging service announced its actions against the abuses made by members of the ISIS, but it still allows communications in private groups. In the wake of recent Paris attacks the experts increased their investigation on the communication channels used by members of the ISIS organization. A few hours after the Paris attacks, investigators speculated […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2015
Discovered instances of the ISIS Help Desk that support terrorists worldwide

The IS is running service to assist jihadists to use encrypted communications and much more. NBCreports defined the service a 24-hour ISIS Help Desk. The propaganda machine of the ISIS is very efficient, everytime that intelligence and activism, try to block it, it rapidly changes become even more effective. After the Paris attacks, we discussed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2015
Anonymous has taken down 5,500 ISIS accounts

The collective of hackers Anonymous claimed Tuesday to have taken out 5,500 Twitter accounts used by the Islamic State organization. The hacking collective Anonymous launched the operation #OpParis against the ISIS in response to the dramatic Paris attacks. The hackers belonging to Anonymous are targeting social media accounts used by members of the terrorist organization. Anonymous released […]