Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2019
TA505 is expanding its operations

An attack against an Italian organization lead the experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab to shed the light on ongoing operations attributed to TA505. Introduction In the last few days, during monitoring activities, Yoroi CERT noticed a suspicious attack against an Italian organization. The malicious email contains a highly suspicious sample which triggered the ZLAB team to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 29, 2019
HawkEye Keylogger is involved in attacks against business users

Experts at IBM X-Force observed a new campaign involving the HawkEye keylogger in April and May 2019 aimed at business users.  Malware attacks leveraging a new variant of the HawkEye keylogger have been observed by experts at Talos. The malware has been under active development since at least 2013 and it is offered for sale […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2019
Shade Ransomware is very active outside of Russia and targets more English-speaking victims

Experts at PaloAlto Networks spotted a new Shade ransomware campaigns targeting news countries, including in the U.S. and Japan. Researchers observed a new wave of Shade ransomware attacks against targets in several countries, including the US and Japan. Shade is considered one of the most dangerous threats in the cyber crime scenario, it has been active […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2019
Crooks leverages .htaccess injector on Joomla and WordPress sites for malicious redirects

Security researchers are monitoring a new hacking campaign aimed at Joomla and WordPress websites, attackers used .htaccess injector for malicious redirect. Researchers at Sucuri are warning Joomla and WordPress websites admins of malicious hypertext access (.htaccess) injector found on a client website. The website was used by attackers to redirect traffic to advertising sites that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 215 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EUBloggerAwards2018 Dutch intelligence investigate alleged Huawei ‘backdoor Salesforce […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed at least $200 million in a year

European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2019
Hackers target MySQL databases to deliver the GandCrab ransomware

Security experts at Sophos have detected a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases with the intent of delivering the GandCrab ransomware Sophos researchers have observed a wave of attacks targeting Windows servers that are running MySQL databases, threat actors aim at delivering the GandCrab ransomware. This is the first time […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2019
How Hackers Access Direct Deposit Paycheck — And What to Do About It

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. hackers can access them. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2019
Group-IB blocked more than 180,000 links to pirated copies of Game of Thrones

Since April 2019, Group-IB has successfully blocked more than 43,000 links to pirated copies of the Game of Thrones Season 8 on pirate websites, forums, and social media As the Game of Thrones saga came to a close (no spoilers here), Group-IB has summed up the results of its anti-piracy campaign during Season 8 of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2019
Defiant Tech firm who operated LeakedSource pleads guilty

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada. Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada. The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of […]