Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2018
Necurs botnet involved in massive ransomware campaigns at the end of 2017

The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push many other malware, including Locky, Jaff, GlobeImposter, Dridex , […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2018
Forever 21 confirms Payment Card Breach and provides further info on the incident

FOREVER 21 confirmed the presence of a malware at some point of sale (POS) systems in stores across the US. On November 2017, the US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it has suffered a security breach, the company now confirmed that hackers stole payment card data from its locations throughout the country for several months during 2017. Even if […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2017
A new Facebook security feature reveals fraudulent Facebook-like mails

A new Facebook security feature protects users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. Facebook has rolled out a new security feature to protect users from identity theft, the tech giant is taking note of every email it has “recently” sent to its users. […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2017
It’s a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies

A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2017
A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police in a swatting attack

Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old man from Wichita, Kansas, was killed last week in a swatting attack by police who were responding to a call reporting a hostage situation at the man’s house. All begun on the evening of December 28, two gamers bet they could complete the Call of Duty game by ‘swatting’ each other, but one of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Info Stealing – The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli spotted a new operation in the wild

The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi, published an interesting analysis of a quite new InfoStealer Malware delivered by eMail to many International Companies. Attack attribution is always a very hard work. False Flags, Code Reuse and Spaghetti Code  makes impossible to assert “This attack belongs to X”. Indeed nowadays makes more sense talking about Attribution […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2017
Hackers are attempting to breach Magento stores through the Mirasvit Helpdesk extension

The cybersecurity expert Willem de Groot reported cyber attacks against Magento websites running the popular helpdesk extension ‘Mirasvit Helpdesk.’ de Groot observed attackers sending a message like this to Magento merchants: Hey, I strongly recommend you to make a redesign! Please contact me if you need a good designer! – [email protected] The message contains a specially crafted sender that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 28, 2017
Pavel Lerner, head of EXMO cryptocurrency exchange, was kidnapped in Ukraine

According to Ukrainian media, the head of the EXMO cryptocurrency exchange Pavel Lerner has been kidnapped in Kiev, the police is investigating the case. According to Ukrainian media, the Russian IT expert Pavel Lerner has been kidnapped in Kiev. Pavel Lerner (40) is a and managing director EXMO, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, and according to a Ukrainian media Strana.ua he stopped […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2017
The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack against its DNS server. As result […]