Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini August 21, 2019
Damage from Silence APT operations increases fivefold. The gang deploys new tools on its “worldwide tour”

Experts from Group-Ib that exposed the most recent campaigns carried out by Silence reported that damage from the APT group operations increases fivefold. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has exposed the most recent campaigns carried out by Silence, a Russian-speaking APT group, in the new “Silence 2.0: Going Global” report. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2019
Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers in just 3 seconds

Bluetana App allows detecting Bluetooth card skimmers installed at the gas pumps to steal customers’ credit and debit card information in just 3 seconds on average. Bluetooth card skimmers continue to be one of the favorite tools in the arsenal of crooks that attempt to steal credit and debit card information. In recent years, law […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 18, 2019
Capital One hacker suspected to have breached other 30 companies

Federal prosecutors revealed that Paige Thompson, who was arrested after the Capital One data breach, may have hacked more than 30 other organizations. In July, Capital One, one of the largest U.S. –card issuer and financial corporation suffered a data breach that exposed personal information from 106 million Capital One credit applications. A hacker that goes […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2019
New DanaBot banking Trojan campaign targets Germany

The DanaBot banking Trojan continues to evolve and spread across the continents, now moving from Australia to European countries.  DanaBot is a multi-stage modular banking Trojan written in Delphi that first appeared on the threat landscape in 2018. The malware implements a modular structure that allows operators to add new functionalities by adding new plug-ins. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2019
700,000 records belonging to Choice Hotels customer leaked online. Crooks demanded ransom

Security experts have discovered that hackers have stolen 700,000 records from Choice Hotels franchise and are demanding payment for their return.  Experts at Comparitech with the help of the popular researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unsecured database containing 700,000 records from the hotel franchise Chain Hotel. The experts discovered the unsecured MongoDB archive containing 5.6 million records […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2019
Threat actors use a Backdoor and RAT combo to target the Balkans

Apparently financially-motivated threat actors carried out a long-term campaign against the Balkans involving a backdoor and a RAT to compromise the targets. Security experts from ESET uncovered a long-running campaign carried out by a financially-motivated threat actor. The attackers combined a backdoor dubbed BalkanDoor and a remote access Trojan tracked as BalkanRAT to take control […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2019
Cerberus, a new banking Trojan available as malware-as-a-service in the underground

Security experts analyzed a new interesting Android banking Trojan, dubbed Cerberus, that is offered for rent by its author. A new malware-as-a-service dubbed Cerberus has emerged in the threat landscape, it is an Android RAT developed from scratch that doesn’t borrow the code from other malware. According to researchers at Threat Fabric who analyzed the threat, Cerberus […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2019
Watch out, your StockX account details may be available in crime forums

Researchers discovered a dump containing 6,840,339 records associated with StockX user accounts that surfaced in the cybercrime underground. Last week media reported the hack of StockX, the fashion and sneaker trading platform. A threat actor stole details of 6 million users, the stolen data includes user names, email addresses, addresses, shoe size, purchase history, and encrypted passwords (salted […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 226

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Hi folk, let me inform you that I suspended the newsletter service, anyway I’ll continue to provide you a list of published posts every week through the blog. Once again thank you! DealPly adware abuses reputation services to remain […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2019
City of Naples, Florida, lost $700K after a cyberattack

Another city in the United States was hit by a cyber attack, according to officials in the city of Naples (Florida) they lost $700,000 in a recent attack. According to officials in the city of Naples, Florida, a cyberattack caused an economic loss of $700,000. This is the last incident in order of time that […]