Monthly Archives: April 2015
Europol, Italian Police & FBI dismantled a cyber criminal gang
Italian police with the support of the Europol and the FBI arrested 10 members of a criminal gang that targeted many individuals and firms across the Europe. Italian law enforcement Guardia […]
Booby trapped! Malvertising campaign hit Adult Site xHamster Again
A New malvertising campaign hit adult website xHamster by abusing ad provider TrafficHaus and exploiting the Google’s URL shortener service. Malversting campaigns are becoming a serious problem for web users, […]
Russian Hackers accessed President Barack Obama emails
The Time revealed that Russian hackers have accessed President Barack Obama emails in the attack on the White House’s unclassified computer system. Earlier this month, US officials admitted there was […]
48,000 Windows XP PCs are still running at TEPCO … which are the risks?
Which is the impact of the Windows XP End of Life on the critical infrastructure? Recently a Government audit found 48,000 XP PCs still running at TEPCO. One year ago […]
Smart city systems could become a nightmare for security
Cyber security expert Cesar Cerrudo once again is warning the IT security community on the risks related to deployment of flawed Smart city systems. My readers know very well the cyber […]
The Interpol has recently announced the creation of its own cryptocurrency with the intent to understand the abuses and fight virtual currency crime.
According to Dr. Madan Mohan Oberoi, Director of Cyber Innovation and Outreach in the INTERPOL Global Complex for innovation (IGCI) being set up in Singapore, the Interpol is working to design of […]
APT28 Russian hackers exploited two zero-day flaws in wild
FireEye recently detected a new highly targeted attack run by APT28 exploiting two zero-day flaw to compromise an “international government entity”. Security experts at FireEye have recently detected a new cyber […]
France Televisions hacked and 100,000 contacts stolen
A group of cyber criminals hacked systems the systems of the France Televisions and have stolen data on 100,000 contacts stored by the French state TV. Another cyber attack hit […]
Redirect to SMB flaw affects all versions of windows
The Redirect to SMB vulnerability affects all supported versions of Windows and could be exploited to steal users’ credentials for various services. Experts at Cylance have discovered a new credential […]
A global operation took down the Simda botnet
Law enforcement dismantled the Simda botnet in an international joint effort that involved also most important private security firms. Another joint operation conducted by law enforcement worldwide and private firms […]
APT30 behind a long-running cyber espionage campaign
Researchers at FireEye uncovered a new threat actor dubbed APT30 that run a decade-long cyber espionage campaign backed by the Chinese Government. Security experts at FireEye have uncovered a new […]
Great Cannon, the powerful Chinese hacking platform
Researchers uncovered the Great Cannon, a powerful hacking tool, used by the Chinese Government to run MITM attacks, that was used also against GitHub. The researchers from the University of […]
How Russians hackers breached the White House unclassified network
According to the CNN Russian hackers used data gathered from State Department to run a Phishing campaign against White House staffers. On October 2014, the Reuters Agency published the news that a suspicious activity had […]
Anonymous collective hit Israel as part of opIsrael 2015
Anonymous hit numerous Israeli websites as promised in a video message posted a few days ago, which was threatening Israel with “the electronic holocaust.” As promised hackers belonging to the […]
The Turkish Government banned YouTube, Facebook and Twitter
The Turkish Government has blocked the access to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter in the country over Istanbul prosecutor siege images. Once again, I’m writing about online censorship, once again the protagonist is […]
Volatile Cedar, the cyber espionage campaign from Lebanon
Volatile Cedar APT group is a new hacking team, apparently from Lebanon, that compromised systems worldwide, most of those in Israel Security experts from Check Point Software Technologies have uncovered a […]
NEW APPROACH TO SECURITY OF DATA TRANSFERRED BY MOBILE PHONES AND COMPUTERS
The speech of Mobile Trust Telecommunications’ General director Anatoly Klepov at Business Security Forum (18 March 2015, CeBIT 2015, Hannover). Era of mobile phones starts in 2015. This is confirmed […]
Thousands of WordPress sites hacked by exploiting a flaw in RevSlider plugin
Cybercriminals have been leveraging a vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin to redirect the visitors of thousands of websites to exploit kits, a researcher has warned. Security experts at Germany’s […]
British Airways Executive Club members accounts compromised
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 […]