Cyber Crime

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2019
Varenyky Spambot Trojan targets French users in alleged sextortion campaign

A new Spambot Trojan, tracked as Varenyky was spotted white targeting users as part of a new alleged sextortion campaign. The malware records the victim’s screen when they are visiting adult-related sites. Varenyky was discovered by researchers at ESET in May and reported by Any.run in June. “In May 2019, ESET researchers observed a spike in ESET telemetry data regarding malware targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 10, 2019
Android Apps containing Clicker Trojan installed on over 100M devices

Experts at Dr Web discovered that a set of Android Apps with over 100 million installations that contains a clicker Trojan tracked as Android.Click.312.origin. Malware researchers at antivirus firm Dr Web discovered more than 33 Android Apps in the Google Play Store with over 100 million installations that contain a clicker Tojan tracked as Android.Click.312.origin. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 08, 2019
New strain of Clipsa malware launches brute-force attacks on WordPress sites

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner.  Avast recently discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2019
Crooks turn victims into money mules via confidence/romance scams

The FBI published a security advisory to warn of cyber actors using online dating sites to conduct confidence/romance scam and recruit money mules. The FBI published a security advisory to warn of confidence/romance scams turning victims into money mules. The advisory explains that victims are used as part of a money-laundering scheme and act as […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2019
StockX hacked, customers’ data offered for sale on the dark web

StockX, the live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, announced a data breach. StockX is a live marketplace for buying and selling limited edition sneakers, watches, handbags, and streetwear, the company announced that the sneaker and streetwear buying platform had been hacked. An unauthorized user was able to access customer data, […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2019
Fraudster stole $870,000 from 2 US universities with spear-phishing mails

A crook involved in a spear phishing scheme and that was in Kenya is facing up to 20 years in the US federal prison for stealing thousands of dollars from US universities. Amil Hassan Raage, 48, pleaded guilty last week in a southern California court to fraudulently receiving almost $750,000 as part of a spear phishing scheme. […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 225 and Important Update

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! Crooks used rare Steganography technique […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 03, 2019
SystemBC, a new proxy malware is being distributed via Fallout and RIG EK

Researchers at Proofpoint discovered SystemBC, a new strain of proxy malware that is being distributed via Fallout and RIG Exploit Kits A new piece of malware dubbed SystemBC was discovered by experts at Proofpoint, it is being distributed via exploit kits like Fallout and RIG. The malware was tracked as “SystemBC” based on the URI path […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2019
Over 1 Million payment cards from South Korea sold on the Dark Web

Data belonging to more than one million payment cards from South Korea surfaced in the dark web over the past two months. Experts noticed a spike in the number of stolen payment card details belonging to users from South Korea over the past two months. Card details from over one million payments cards from South […]