Pierluigi Paganini
January 10, 2014
One of the largest communities of Eastern Europe cybercriminals “Verified” was hacked, more than 18,894 bad actors revealed after several hours. According to sources at IntelCrawler, cyberintelligence firm from Los Angeles, the largest community of Eastern Europe cybercriminals “Verified” was hacked several hours ago. The hackers hit the online community stealing member information and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 07, 2014
The UK based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, stolen credit card data of more than 93,000 customers. The UK-based Insurance company Staysure has suffered a massive data breach, the company admitted that its servers were compromised and sensitive financial data of more than 93,000 customers have been stolen. This means that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2013
KrebsOnSecurity has discovered an unusual botnet that disguises itself as a legitimate add-on for Mozilla Firefox to perform website vulnerability scanning. Krebson security blog posted an interesting article on a new concerning botnet infected more than 12,500 systems disguises itself as a legitimate add-on for Mozilla Firefox to hack websites on a large scale. The botnet, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2013
Interview with the security experts Andrey Komarov and Dan Clements of IntelCrawler to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2013
ENISA releases the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013, it a collection of information on top cyber-threats that have been assessed in the reporting period. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) published the ENISA Threat Landscape 2013 report, a document that was annually issued to analyze significant evolutions in the cyber-threat landscape. The ENISA has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2013
Atrax, yet another commercial crimekit on the black market, a malware able to exploit Tor and that implements numerous features including Bitcoin mining. Atrax is the name of the last crimekit that is sold in the underground market, its particularity is the capability to exploit Tor networks to communicate with Command & Control infrastructure. Jonas […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2013
Trusteer researchers have uncovered a sneaky piece of financial malware, known as i2Ninja, being sold on a Russian cyber crime forum. A new financial malware dubbed i2Ninja menaces banking, despite it has yet to be discovered in the wild, researchers at the IBM company Trusteer have found a sneaky piece of the malicious code on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 15, 2013
At last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest hacking teams from Japan and China compromised iPhone 5 running iOS 6 and iOS 7 and a Samsung Galaxy S4. During the last HP’s Pwn2Own 2013 contest at Information Security Conference PacSec 2013 in Tokyo, two teams of Chinese and Japanese hackers demonstrated the exploitation of zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s Safari browser for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2013
Happy Birthday Security Affairs Two years ago I started Security Affairs for joke motivated by my passion in the security, day after day it is growing thanks to your affection and your precious support. I wish you were all here to hug you and have a coffee together, the Italians love coffee 😉 … Maybe […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 14, 2013
Security researcher Dancho Danchev profiled a new commercially modular malware platform recently released on the underground marketplace. A new commercially modular malware platform has been released on the underground marketplace, the news is posted by the security expert Dancho Danchev. Danchev recently observed a new modular malware platform specifically designed to provide a series of powerful features […]
