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Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

The administrator of Crypto Market launched Silk Road 3.0, the fourth iteration of the popular black market (Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, Silk Road Reloaded). We all know that Silk Road was one of the greatest black marketplaces in the criminal underground, but many ignore that someone is still running the fourth iteration of the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
Redirector.Paco, a Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

According to the experts at Bitdefender an HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco infected almost 1 million devices since now. Security experts at Bitdefender spotted a new click fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco that has been around at least since September 2014 and has already infected more than 900,000 devices over the years. Crooks behind the Redirector.Paco aimed to create a clickbot that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

The popular crime forum Nulled.io has suffered a serious security breach that exposed personal details of more than 500K users and their activities. Nulled.io is a popular crime forum with roughly 500,000 users that but and sell any kind of product and services and share information regarding illegal practices. According to the Risk Based Security, last […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
CVE-2016-4117 – FireEye revealed the exploit chain of recent attacks

The FireEye researcher Genwei Jiang revealed the exploit chain related to phishing attacks leveraging CVE-2016-4117 flaw recently fixed by Adobe. Security experts at FireEye have recently spotted an attack leveraging on an Adobe zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) recently patched. The CVE-2016-4117 flaw affects older versions of the Adobe Flash, a few days ago the company was informed of a new zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. These cyber attackers are employing the same tactics used to hack online banks and retailers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
Experts also cracked the CryptXXX ransomware 2.0

Security Experts at Kaspersky have updated their decryption tool to adapt to the second version of CryptXXX ransomware in the RannohDecryptor 1.9.1.0. A couple of hours ago I published an interesting post the summarizes the ransomware activities in the last week, and unfortunately, this kind of malware is becoming even more popular in the criminal underground. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
Hacker claims to have full access to Pornhub and already sold it

A 19-year-old hacker who goes by the name Revolver claims to have breached into Pornhub server and already sold the access for $1,000. It happened during the weekend, a researcher using the 1×0123 Twitter account announced the availability of a shell access to a subdomain on Pornhub and offered it for $1,000. The figure is obviously […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016
ATM Skimming attacks are skyrocketing

Security and fraud experts are observing a significant increase in the number of ATM skimming attacks across the world. It’s an emergency! Security and fraud experts are observing a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against the ATMs, in particular, skimming attacks. The popular investigator Brian Krebs recently published an interesting post that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016
OpIcarus: Anonymous crusade against the sick banking industry

Anonymous alongside with BannedOffline and Ghost Squad crews are resuming the OpIcarus targeting banking websites around the world. Hackers of the Anonymous collective alongside with Ghost Squad and BannedOffline continued their attacks on the banks worldwide under the campaign named OpIcarus. The Operation OpIcarus was resumed in March 2016, both Anonymous and Ghost Squad launched several attacks on financial institutions worldwide, including the bank […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 60 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs How terrorists abuse online services for propaganda? Hacker Interviews – The hacker: zurael sTz Liberty Reserve founder sentenced 20 years in jail Security Affairs newsletter Round 59 – News of the week 2015 intelligence transparency report, the […]