Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022
Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022
Snatch group claims to have hacked military provider HENSOLDT France

The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked HENSOLDT France, a company specializing in military and defense electronics. The Snatch ransomware group claims to have hacked the French company HENSOLDT France. HENSOLDT is a company specializing in military and defense electronics. HENSOLDT France offers a wide range of critical electronics solutions, products and services for the aeronautical, defence, energy and transport sectors, […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2022
Malicious dropper apps on Play Store totaled 30.000+ installations

ThreatFabric researchers discovered five malicious dropper apps on Google Play Store with more than 130,000 downloads. Researchers at ThreatFabric have discovered five malicious dropper apps on the official Google Play Store. The malicious dropper apps are designed to deliver banking trojans, such as SharkBot and Vultur, that already totaled over 130,000 installations. “Droppers on Google Play went […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2022
German BKA arrested the alleged operator of Deutschland im Deep Web darknet market

German police arrested a student that is suspected of being the administrator of ‘Deutschland im Deep Web’ (DiDW) darknet marketplace. Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has arrested a student (22) in Bavaria, who is suspected of being the administrator of ‘Deutschland im Deep Web’ (DiDW) darknet marketplace. The darknet marketplace has gone off early […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2022
BlackByte ransomware group hit Asahi Group Holdings, a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider

The BlackByte ransomware group claims to have compromised Asahi Group Holdings, a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider. Asahi Group Holdings, Ltd. is a precision metal manufacturing and metal solution provider, for more than 40 years, the company has been delivering end-to-end services in the industries of precision metals and thin-film coatings with different teams […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 30, 2022
Air New Zealand warns of an ongoing credential stuffing attack

Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, multiple customers have been locked out of their accounts after the incident. Air New Zealand suffered a security breach, threat actors attempted to access customers’ accounts by carrying out credential-stuffing attacks. What is credential stuffing? “Credential stuffing is a type of attack in which hackers use automation and lists […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2022
Twilio discloses another security incident that took place in June

Twilio suffered another brief security incident in June 2022, the attack was conducted by the same threat actor of the August hack. The Communications company Twilio announced that it suffered another “brief security incident” on June 29, 2022, the attack was conducted by the same threat actor that in August compromised the company and gained access to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2022
British hacker arraigned for running The Real Deal dark web marketplace

A popular British hacker was charged by the U.S. authorities for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (aka Bestbuy, Spdrman, Popopret, UserL0ser) (34) was charged by the U.S. DoJ for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The man was charged with access device fraud […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
See Tickets discloses data breach, customers’ credit card data exposed

International ticketing services company See Tickets disclosed a data breach that exposed customers’ payment card details. Ticketing service company See Tickets disclosed a data breach, and threat actors might have accessed customers’ payment card details. Threat actors were able to steal payment card data by implanting a software skimmer on its website. The company discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 26, 2022
US charges Ukrainian man with Raccoon Infostealer operation

US authorities charged a Ukrainian man with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with Raccoon Infostealer. The US Justice Department charged a Ukrainian, Mark Sokolovsky (26) man with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with the Raccoon Infostealer. The man is currently being held in the Netherlands, he was charged for […]