Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2018
Crackas leader (15) gained access to data of intel operations in Afghanistan and Iran by posing as the CIA chief

British teenager Kane Gamble (15), leader of the ‘Crackas With Attitude’ hacking group gained access to intel operations in Afghanistan and Iran by posing as the CIA chief. Do you remember “Crackas With Attitude”? You remember for sure the Crackas With Attitude, a hacking crew that claimed clamorous actions in support of the Palestine cause. The notorious group […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2018
Italian companies and Ministry of the Interior under attack, experts spotted a huge botnet

Threat actors with a deep knowledge of the Fiscal Italian ecosystem are using a huge botnet to target Italian companies and Ministry of the Interior. On Januaty 18 a colleague of mine (Luca) called me telling a malicious email was targeting Italian companies. This is the beginning of our new analysis adventure that Luca and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2018
Experts uncovered a new campaign abusing FTP servers to deliver Dridex Banking Trojan

Security researchers at Forcepoint have spotted a new spam campaign that is abusing compromised FTP servers as a repository for malicious documents and infecting users with the Dridex banking Trojan. The Dridex banking Trojan is a long-running malware that has been continuously improved across the years. The malicious email campaign was first noticed by Forcepoint on January 17, 2018, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2018
Health South East RHF data breach exposed health records for half of Norway’s Population

On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region disclosed a major security breach. On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region (countries of Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2018
Threat actors are delivering the Zyklon Malware exploiting three Office vulnerabilities

Security experts from FireEye have spotted a new strain of the Zyklon malware that has been delivered by using new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Researchers at FireEye reported the malware was used in attacks against organizations in the telecommunications, financial, and insurance sectors. Zyklon has been spotted for the first time in 2016, it is a publicly available […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 18, 2018
KillaMuvz, the creator of the Cryptex tool family pleads guilty to running malware services

The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24), also known as KillaMuvz, has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. The Briton Goncalo Esteves (24) has pleaded guilty to charges related to creating and running malware services. Such kind of platforms allows crooks to improve the development of their malicious codes. The malware created with […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2018
RubyMiner Monero Cryptominer affected 30% of networks worldwide in just 24h

Security researchers at Check Point have spotted a malware family dubbed RubyMiner that is targeting web servers worldwide in an attempt to exploit their resources to mine Monero cryptocurrency. RubyMiner, was first spotted last week when a massive campaign targeted web servers worldwide, most of them in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Norway, and Sweden. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Four malicious Chrome extensions affected over half a million users and global businesses

Four malicious Chrome extensions may have impacted more than half million users likely to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. More than half million users may have been infected by four malicious Chrome extensions that were likely used to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. According to ICEBRG, the malicious extensions […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Canadian man charged over leak of billions hacked accounts through LeakedSource

A Canadian Man supposed to be the admin of the LeakedSource.com website was charged over the leak of 3 billion hacked accounts. The Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims. The man […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Customers reporting OnePlus payment website was hacked and reported credit card fraud

Several customers of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. OnePlus claim to have been the victim of fraudulent credit card transactions after making purchases on the company webstore. A large number of OnePlus users claim to have been the victim of fraudulent credit card transactions after making purchases on the official website of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer. Dozens […]