Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2018
MEGA Chrome browser extension hacked, bogus version stole users’ credentials

The MEGA Chrome browser extension had been hacked and replaced with a one that steals users’ credentials for popular web services Are you using the MEGA Chrome browser extension? Uninstall it now because the Chrome extension for MEGA file storage service had been hacked and replaced with a one that steals users’ credentials for popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2018
Security Affairs newsletter Round 178 – 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! ·      Personal details of 37,000 Eir customers exposed […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2018
MagentoCore skimmer already infected 7,339 Magento stores

MagentoCore skimmer already infected 7,339 Magento stores, according to the Willem de Groot who uncovered the campaign, it is the most aggressive to date. The cybersecurity researcher Willem de Groot has uncovered a massive hacking campaign aimed at Magento stores. The hackers have already infected 7,339 Magento stores with a skimmer script, dubbed MagentoCore, that siphons payment card […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 02, 2018
Kaspersky warns of a new Loki Bot campaign target corporate mailboxes

Security experts from Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new spam campaign leveraging the Loki Bot malware to target corporate mailboxes. The Loki Bot attacks started in July and aimed at stealing passwords from browsers, messaging applications, mail and FTP clients, and cryptocurrency wallets Loki Bot operators employ various social engineering technique to trick victims into opening weaponized attachments that […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2018
Cobalt cybercrime gang targets Russian and Romanian banks

On August 13, ASERT observed the Cobalt crime gang actively pushing a new campaign aimed at institutions in eastern Europe and Russia. Security experts from Netscout’s ASERT uncovered a new campaign carried out by the Cobalt cybercrime group. The attacks were detected on August 13, 2018, experts revealed that the hackers targeted also the NS Bank in Russia and Carpatica/Patria in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2018
Fappening case – Another hacker who leaked celebrities naked photos was sentenced to 8 months in prison

Fappening – The hacker George Garofano (26) who leaked celebrities naked photos and attempted to trade them was sentenced to 8 months in prison The sentence for the fourth hacker involved in the leakage of celebrities naked photos, also known as the Fappening case, has arrived. George Garofano, 26, of North Branford, has been sentenced to […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2018
Hacking The Hacker. Stopping a big botnet targeting USA, Canada and Italy

Today I’d like to share a full path analysis including a KickBack attack which took me to gain full access to an entire Ursniff/Gozi botnet. In other words:  from a simple “Malware Sample” to “Pwn the Attacker Infrastructure”. NB: Federal Police have already been alerted on such a topic as well as National and International […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 31, 2018
Federal prosecutors indicted a 20-year-old man who built the Satori botnet

A youngster (20) from Washington was indicted last week on federal computer hacking charges after rival hackers fingered him as the creator of a Mirai variant dubbed Satori. MalwareMustDie Team: “It’s time for every teenager or young man to know that playing with malware is the fastest way to finish in the jail” Mirai, Mirai […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2018
Data of 130 Million hotel chain guests offered for 8 BTC on Dark Web

A hacker is offering for sale the personal details of over 130 million hotel chain guests on a Chinese Dark Web forum. The news was reported by Bleeping computers, a hacker is selling the personal details of over 130 million hotel guests for 8 Bitcoin on a Chinese Dark Web forum. “The breach was reported […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2018
Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum hacked, 260k users impacted

The Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum suffered a security breach, information belonging to more than 260,000 users was stolen by hackers. Hackers stole information related to over 260,000 users of the Cryptocurrency Platform Atlas Quantum. Exposed data includes customer names, phone numbers, and email addresses, as well as customer account balances. The platform allows users to trade the cryptocurrency […]