Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2020
Cloud computing provider Blackbaud paid a ransom after data breach

Cloud software provider Blackbaud revealed to have paid crooks to decrypt its data following a ransomware attack that took place in May 2020. Blackbaud is a cloud computing provider that serves the social good community — nonprofits, foundations, corporations, education institutions, healthcare organizations, religious organizations, and individual change agents. Its products focus on fundraising, website management, CRM, analytics, financial […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2020
REVil ransomware infected 18,000 computers at Telecom Argentina

Another telco company was hit by a ransomware, roughly 18,000 computers belonging to Telecom Argentina were infected over the weekend. Telecom Argentina, one of the largest internet service providers in Argentina, was hit by a ransomware attack. Ransomware operators infected roughly 18,000 computers during the weekend and now are asking for a $7.5 million ransom. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2020
Tedrade banking malware families target users worldwide

The Tetrade term coined by Kaspersky experts to refer four large banking trojan families developed and spread by Brazilian crooks worldwide. Cybersecurity researchers from Kaspersky Lab have detailed four different families of Brazilian banking trojans, tracked as Tetrade, that have targeted financial institutions in Brazil, Latin America, and Europe. The four malware families are named Guildma, Javali, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2020
Diebold Nixdorf warns of a wave of ATM black box attacks across Europe

ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf is warning banks a new ATM black box attack technique that was recently employed in cyber thefts in Europe. Black box attacks are a type of jackpotting attack aimed at forcing an ATM to dispense the cash by sending a command through a “black box” device. In this attack, a black box […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2020
Emotet botnet surges back after months of absence

After months of inactivity, the infamous Emotet trojan has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The notorious Emotet went into the dark since February 2020, but now has surged back with a new massive spam campaign targeting users worldwide. The Emotet banking trojan has been active at least since 2014, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
Orange Business Services hit by Nefilim ransomware operators

Security researchers at Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the mobile network operator Orange. Researchers from Cyble came across a post of Nefilim ransomware operators which were claiming to have stolen sensitive data of Orange S.A., one of the largest mobile networks based in France. The discovery was made by the experts during their regular […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
Introducing the PhishingKitTracker

Experts that want to to study phishing attack schema and Kit-composition can use the recently PhishingKitTracker, which is updated automatically. If you are a security researcher or even a passionate about how attackers implement phishing you will find yourself to look for phishing kits. A phishing kit is not a phishing builder, but a real […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 17, 2020
New Android BlackRock malware targets hundreds of apps

Researchers spotted a new Android banking trojan dubbed BlackRock malware that steals credentials and credit card data from hundreds of apps. Security experts from ThreatFabric have discovered a new Android banking trojan dubbed BlackRock that steals credentials and credit card data from a list of 337 apps. The BlackRock malware borrows the code from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020
Group-IB helps to detain fraudsters that used cloned SIM cards to steal money from banks’ VIP customers

Russian police have detained the organizers of a criminal group that focused on reissuing SIM cards and stealing money from Russian banking customers. With the assistance of Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing and investigating cyberattacks, the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department has detained the organizers of a criminal group that focused on reissuing SIM […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 16, 2020
Several High-Profile Twitter accounts hacked in a Bitcoin scam

The social media platform Twitter suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, multiple high-profile accounts were hacked. Social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon […]