Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini April 20, 2018
At least 20 Million Chrome users have installed malicious Ad Blockers from Chrome store

A security researcher has discovered five malicious Ad Blockers extensions in the Google Chrome Store that had been installed by at least by 20 million users. The security researcher Andrey Meshkov, co-founder of Adguard, has discovered five malicious Ad Blockers extensions in the Google Chrome Store that had been installed by at least by 20 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 18, 2018
ZLAB MALWARE ANALYSIS REPORT: RANSOMWARE-AS-A-SERVICE PLATFORMS

Security experts at CSE CybSec ZLab malware Lab have conducted an interesting analysis of the principal Ransomware-as-a-Service platforms available on the dark web. Over the years, the diffusion of darknets has created new illegal business models. Along with classic illegal goods such as drugs and payment card data, other services appeared in the criminal underground, […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2018
Roaming Mantis Malware Campaign Leverages Hacked Routers to Infect Android Users With Banking Trojan

According to experts at Kaspersky, the Roaming Mantis malware is designed for distribution through a simple, but very efficient trick based on DNS hijacking. According to experts at Kaspersky, the Roaming Mantis malware is designed for distribution through a simple, but very efficient trick based on DNS hijacking. Imagine a nefarious person swapped out your […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2018
Microsoft engineer charged with money laundering linked to Reveton ransomware

The Microsoft network engineer Raymond Uadiale (41)  is facing federal charges in Florida for the alleged involvement in Reveton Ransomware case. The man is suspected to have had a role in helping launder money obtained from victims of the Reventon ransomware. Uadiale currently works at Microsoft site in Seattle since 2014, according to Florida police between October […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 14, 2018
Malware researcher have dismantled the EITest Network composed of 52,000

Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign and shut down it. Malware researchers from Abuse.ch, BrillantIT, and Proofpoint have sinkholed the control infrastructure behind EITest campaign that leveraged on a network of hacked servers exploited by crooks to distribute traffic (TDS). The network was used to redirect users to compromised domains hosting exploit kits, delivering […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 13, 2018
When the Russian Malware coder Gatsoev is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia

When the Russian young Malware coder is praised by the Russian head of Information Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of North Ossetia. Under the spotlight: the story of Atsamaz Gatsoev (aka “1ms0rry”) who has set up his illegal business. A new write-up made by a security researcher known as Benkow (@Benkow_) has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2018
Public services at the Caribbean island Sint Maarten shut down by a cyber attack

A cyber attack shut down the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. public services were interrupted. A massive cyber attack took offline the entire government infrastructure of the Caribbean island Sint Maarten. it is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Government building remained closed after the attack. “The Ministry of General Affairs hereby informs […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Sodexo Filmology data breach – Users need cancel their credit cards

Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology. Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Verge Cryptocurrency suffered a cyber attack, dev team responded with an Hard Fork

The verge (XVG) currency schema was attacked last week, the hacker reportedly making off with $1 million-worth of tokens. The dev team responded with an Hard Fork. Ripple (XRP) and Verge (XVG) are two cryptocurrencies that attracted many investors in the last months. Last week attackers hackers the Verge cryptocurrency system by exploiting a vulnerability in […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2018
Crooks distribute malware masquerade as fake software updates and use NetSupport RAT

Researchers at FireEye have spotted a hacking campaign leveraging compromised websites to spread fake updates for popular software that were also used to deliver the NetSupport Manager RAT. NetSupport is an off-the-shelf RAT that could be used by system admins for remote administration of computers. In the past, crooks abuse this legitimate application to deploy malware on victim’s […]