Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini December 23, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 193 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Twitter fixed bug could have exposed Direct Messages […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2018
San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach exposed data of 500,000 students and staff

Personal information belonging to over 500,000 students and 50 district employees were exposed in the San Diego School District (SDUSD) security breach. An attacker sent spear-phishing to SDUSD personnel with the intent of trick them into revealing credentials to access the district’s network services. The attacker accessed personal information of student and staff, including names, […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 22, 2018
Law enforcement take down 15 DDoS-for-Hire services

U.S. Authorities Take Down 15 DDoS-for-Hire Websites The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that the FBI seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services. The FBI has seized 15 domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services (aka booters or stressers) that were used by their customers to launch powerful DDoS attacks. The U.S. District Court for the Central […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2018
Analyzing a Danabot Paylaod that is targeting Italy

A new variant of the infamous Danabot botnet hit Italy, experts at Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab dissected one of these sample that targeted entities in Italy. In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Danabot botnet hit Italy. Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 16, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 192 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! STOLEN PENCIL campaign, hackers target academic institutions. WordPress […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 12, 2018
Novidade, a new Exploit Kit is targeting SOHO Routers

Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new exploit kit, dubbed Novidade (“novelty” in Portuguese), that is targeting SOHO routers to compromise the devices connected to the network equipment. The Novidade exploit kit leverages cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to change the Domain Name System (DNS) settings of SOHO routers and redirect traffic from the connected […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 10, 2018
Duke-Cohan sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and DDoS

The British teenager George Duke-Cohan (19) has been sentenced to three years in prison due to false bomb threats and carrying out DDoS attacks.A Cohan was arrested in August by the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA), the teenager, aka “7R1D3N7,” “DoubleParallax” and “optcz1,” was arrested on August 31 and pleaded guilty to three counts of making hoax […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 08, 2018
Europol identified 1504 money mules under EMMA 4 operation

Europol announced the arrest of 168 people under the European Money Mule Action ‘EMMA 4′, a massive operation that resulted in the identification of 1,504 money mules.  Europol announced that 168 people have been arrested under the ‘EMMA 4’, an international operation conducted by law enforcement. EMMA 4 lasted from September to November 2018. Law enforcement in […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 06, 2018
DHS and FBI published a joint alert on SamSam Ransomware

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI issued a joint alert on SamSam attacks targeting critical infrastructure. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the FBI published a joint alert on the activity associated with the infamous SamSam ransomware. The SamSam hackers extorted over 200 organizations, including public institutions, municipalities, and hospitals, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2018
New strain of Ransomware infected over 100,000 PCs in China

Security experts reported a new strain of malware spreading in China, the malicious code rapidly infected over 100,000 PCs in just four days. Unfortunately, the number of infections is rapidly increasing because hackers compromised a supply chain. It is interesting to note that this ransomware requests victims to pay 110 yuan (nearly Euro 14) in ransom […]