Pierluigi Paganini
June 27, 2020
A 30-year old Russian national was sentenced to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection credit card market. The Russian national named Aleksey Yurievich Burkov (30) was sentenced to nine years in prison for running Cardplanet and Direct Connection, two credit card market that facilitated payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other illegal activities. In 2019, Burkov […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2020
Malwarebytes experts observed crooks hiding a software skimmer in the EXIF metadata of an image that was surreptitiously loaded by compromised online stores. While investigating a Magecart attack, experts found an e-skimmer code hidden in the EXIF metadata of an image file and surreptitiously loaded by compromised online stores. The malicious script detected by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2020
A man accused to have developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the Mirai botnet was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison. Kenneth Currin Schuchman, 22, of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison because it has developed distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnets based on the source code of Mirai botnet. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2020
German Police have arrested 32 individuals and detained 11 after a series of raids targeting users of an illegal underground economy forum. According to prosecutors in Frankfurt and Bamberg, the German Police have arrested 32 individuals and detained 11 after a series of raids targeting users of the “crimenetwork.co” illegal underground economy forum. The operation involved […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2020
A new botnet, tracked as Lucifer, appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages close to a dozen exploits to hack Windows systems. A new botnet tracked as Lucifer appeared in the threat landscape, it leverages a dozen exploits for high and critical severity flaws affecting Windows systems. Upon infecting a system the bot turns it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2020
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange attempted to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia who could have stolen info for his anti-secrecy site, states DoJ. US Department of Justice claims Julian Assange tried to recruit hackers at conferences in Europe and Asia to steal classified information on his behalf and that could have been published […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2020
Maze ransomware operators claims to have breached the South Korean multinational electronics company LG Electronics. Researchers at Cyble discovered a data leak of LG Electronics published by Maze ransomware operators. “As part of our regular darkweb monitoring, our researchers came across the data leak of LG Electronics been published by the Maze ransomware operators. Just after the WorldNet Telecommunications, the LG […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2020
The CryptoCore hacker group that is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe has stolen around $200 million from online cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts from ClearSky states that a hacker group tracked as CryptoCore, which is believed to be operating out of Eastern Europe, has stolen around $200 million from cryptocurrency exchanges. The CryptoCore group, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2020
Symantec researchers observed REvil ransomware operators scanning one of their victim’s network for Point of Sale (PoS) servers. Researchers from Symantec’s Threat Intelligence team reported that the REvil ransomware operators have been observed while scanning one of their victim’s network for Point of Sale (PoS) servers. Sodinokibi ransomware operators are very active in this period, a few days after the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 23, 2020
Group-IB published a detailed report on Fxmsp â a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for himself selling access to corporate networks. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has issued a comprehensive report on Fxmsp â a heavyweight of the Russian-speaking cyber underground who made a name for himself selling access to corporate networks. Group-IB […]
