Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2019
German legislative body wants to tighten penalties against black marketplace operators

Germany’s states have decided to criminalize black marketplace operators with the introduction of specific federal legislation. Germany’s states have voted to punish operators of dark web platforms with the introduction of federal legislation. The legislation aims at criminalizing every operator behind darkweb marketplaces where illegal activities take place. This Friday, therefore, the German Federal Council […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
Recently fixed WinRAR bug actively exploited in the wild

Several threat actors are still exploiting a recently patched critical vulnerability in the popular compression software WinRAR. Several threat actors are actively exploiting a critical remote code execution vulnerability recently addressed in WinRAR. The exploitation of the flaw in the wild is worrisome because the WinRAR software doesn’t have an auto-update feature, leaving millions of […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2019
GlitchPOS PoS Malware appears in the cybercrime underground

A new piece of PoS malware appeared in the threat landscape, the malicious code dubbed GlitchPOS has been found on a crimeware forum. The GlitchPOS malware is able to steal credit card numbers (Track1 and Track2) from the memory of the infected system, it uses a regular expression to perform this task. The malicious code […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2019
Payment data of thousands of customers of UK and US online stores could have been compromised

Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has uncovered a malicious code designed to steal customers’ payment data on seven online stores in the UK and the US. The injected code has been identified as a new JavaScript Sniffer (JS Sniffer), dubbed by Group-IB as GMO. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team first discovered the GMO JS Sniffer on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2019
Torrent Risks: How to get infected through torrent with a good reputation

Experts at Z-Lab Yoroi/Cybaze have conducted an interesting analysis on the risks for users downloading films, games, and software through Torrent. Digital media sharing is one of the most relevant phenomena since the advent of the internet. During the 80’s and 90’s, with the rapid growth the Internet, people around the world started sharing digital […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2019
Modular Cryptojacking malware uses worm abilities to spread

Security experts at 360 Total Security have discovered a new modular cryptocurrency malware that implements worm capabilities to spread. Security experts at 360 Total Security have discovered a new modular cryptocurrency malware that implements worm capabilities by leveraging known vulnerabilities in servers running ElasticSearch, Hadoop, Redis, Spring, Weblogic, ThinkPHP, and SqlServer. The Monero cryptocurrency miner […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2019
STOP ransomware encrypts files and steals victim’s data

Experts observed the STOP ransomware installing the Azorult password-stealing Trojan to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and more. The STOP ransomware made the headlines because it is installing password-stealing Trojans on the victims’ machines. Experts observed the ransomware also installing the dreaded Azorult password-stealing Trojan on victim’s machine to steal account credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, documents […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2019
Jackson County paid $400,000 to crooks after ransomare attack

Ransomware threat makes the headlines again, this time an attack hit the computers of Jackson County, Georgia, paralyzing the government activity. Computers of Jackson County, Georgia, were infected with ransomware that paralyzed the government activity until officials decided to pay a $400,000 ransom to decrypt the files. “The Jackson County government paid online criminals about […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2019
Cybaz-Yoroi ZLAB shed the light on Op. ‘Pistacchietto’: An Italian Job

In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the cyber threat Italian landscape, it has been tracked as “Operation Pistacchietto.” Introduction In the past weeks, a new strange campaign emerged in the Italian landscape. It has been baptized “Operation Pistacchietto” from a username extracted from a Github account used to serve some part […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 04, 2019
Annual RSA Conference Exclusive 2019 Edition of Cyber Defense Magazine is arrived

We’re honored to bring you our 7th Annual edition of Cyber Defense Magazine (CDM), exclusively in print at the RSA Conference (RSAC) 2019. Cyber Defense eMagazine – Annual RSA Conference 2019 Edition. Sponsored by: Regent University’s Institute for Cybersecurity Setting the Standard in Cyber Training & Education and by the RSA Conference 2019 Team! RSA […]