Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world

More details emerged from the recently disclosed Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of e-commerce. Operators of the JavaScript-sniffer family, dubbed «GetBilling» by Group-IB, were arrested in Indonesia. The arrest came as a result of a joint operation «Night Fury» initiated by INTERPOL’s ASEAN Cyber Capability Desk (ASEAN Desk) that involved Indonesian Cyber Police (BARESKRIM POLRI (Dittipidsiber)) and Group-IB’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020
City of Potsdam offline following a cyberattack

The City of Potsdam suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, but emergency services were not impacted. The German City of Potsdam has suffered a major cyberattack that took down its servers earlier this week, the good news is that emergency services, including the city’s fire department fully operational and payments […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020
Authorities arrest 3 Indonesian hackers behind many Magecart attacks

The Indonesian National Police and the Interpol announced the arrest of three Indonesian hackers who carried out Magecart attacks. The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol announced the result of an investigation dubbed ‘Operation Night Fury’ that allowed to arrest three hackers that carried out Magecart attacks to steal payment card data. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2020
Russian operator of Cardplanet carding site pleads guilty in the US

A Russian national pleaded guilty this week to running a carding website called Cardplanet that helped people commit credit-card fraud. Last year, the Russian man Aleksei Burkov (29) was accused of running an online criminal marketplace, called Cardplanet, that helped crooks to organize more than $20 million in credit card fraud. In November, the suspect […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2020
Malware attack took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library

System supporting libraries in Volusia County were hit by a cyber attack, the incident took down 600 computers at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches. 600 staff and public access computers were taken down at Volusia County Public Library (VCPL) branches in Daytona Beach, Florida, following a cyberattack. The attack started around 7 AM on […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020
Yomi Hunter Catches the CurveBall

Yomi implements detection for CurveBall exploits and also supports CVE-2020-0601 exploit detection even for signed Powershell modules.  The recent CurveBall vulnerability shook the Info-Sec community worldwide: a major vulnerability reported directly by the US National Security Agency. Such uncommon vulnerability reporter alerted the whole Industry, CVE-2020-0601 quickly conquered most of the headlines.  The reason for this unusual outreach […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020
The Mystery of Fbot

In a few days back, the MalwareMustDie team’s security researcher unixfreaxjp has published a new Linux malware analysis of Fbot that has focused on the decryption of the last encryption logic used by its bot client. This is not the first time Fbot analysis has been published, and also Fbot binaries have been actively infecting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 21, 2020
US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach

The US-based children’s clothing maker Hanna Andersson has disclosed a data breach that affected its customers. The US-based children’s clothing maker and online retailer Hanna Andersson discloses a data breach, attackers planted an e-skimmer on its e-commerce platform. Like other Magecart attacks, crooks compromised the online store and injected a JavaScript code into checkout pages to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2020
Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor

Attacks on Citrix servers are intensifying, one of the threat actors behind them is patching them and installing its own backdoor to lock out other attackers. Security experts are monitoring a spike in the number of attacks against Citrix servers after that researchers announced the availability online of proof-of-concept exploits for the CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix NetScaler […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2020
Cybercrime Statistics in 2019

I’m preparing the slides for my next speech and I decided to create this post while searching for interesting cybercrime statistics in 2020 Cybercrime will cost as much as $6 trillion annually by 2021. The global expense for organizations to protect their systems from cybercrime attacks will continue to grow. According to the Cybersecurity Ventures’ cybercrime statistics 2017 […]