Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini March 16, 2017
Two Russian former FSB agents and two hackers indicted for 2014 Yahoo data breach

The US authorities charged two former Russian FSB agents and two hackers for 2014 Yahoo data breach that caused the exposure of 500 Million Yahoo Accounts. Last year it was disclosed the news of the 2014 Yahoo data breach that compromised over 500 million Yahoo user accounts. At the time of the public disclosure made by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2017
Mac users enjoy, FindZip macOS Ransomware decryption tool is available online for free

Great news for macOS users who were infected by the FindZip macOS ransomware, Avast released a decryption tool for free. Good news for macOS users who were infected by the FindZip ransomware, now a decryption tool was released online for free. The FindZip macOS ransomware was spotted last month by researchers at ESET, it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2017
PetrWrap, a Petya-based ransomware, was used in targeted attacks

Threat actors in the wild have found the way to hijack the Petya ransomware on the fly and use it in targeted attacks, say welcome to PetrWrap ransomware. The Petya ransomware was first spotted by experts at TrendMicro one year ago, it overwrites MBR to lock users out of the infected machines. The Petya ransomware causes a blue […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 14, 2017
Crooks hijack Magento Realex Payments extension to steal payment card data

Cybercriminals hijack Magento Realex Payments extension to steal payment card data. Experts at Sucuri are observing massive attacks. Cybercriminals continue to target Magento platform to steal credit card data. Crooks have been abusing a payment module to steal payment card data from online shops running on Magento e-commerce platform. According to experts at security firm Sucuri, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2017
New variant of the macOS Proton RAT advertised on Russian cybercrime underground

Experts from security firm Sixgill have discovered a new strain of the macOS Proton RAT that is offered for sale on Russian cybercrime underground. The Dark Web is the right place where to find any kind of illegal products and services, malware such as banking trojan and spyware are very popular in cyber criminal underground. Recently a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 11, 2017
Danish-speaking users hit by malware spread via Dropbox links

Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through Dropbox, but the company quickly adopted the countermeasures to stop the attack. According to the experts from security firm AppRiver, Danish-speaking users were hit by an unusual malware-based attack. The attack hit Denmark, Germany, and several surrounding Scandinavian countries on Wednesday morning. Danish-speaking users were infected by malware spread through […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 10, 2017
Ennetcom – Dutch Police confirmed to have decrypted BlackBerry PGP messages in a criminal case

The Dutch police decrypted a number of PGP messages sent by crooks through their BlackBerry mobile devices for the criminal investigation on Ennetcom. PGP is an open source end-to-end encryption standard that can be used to sign emails, files, documents, or disk partitions. On April 2016, the Dutch Police arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2017
Patch Apache Struts 2 Now! Hackers are exploiting a remote code execution zero-day in the wild

Researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day in Apache Struts 2, the flaw has being exploiting by that threat actors in the wild. Security researchers have spotted a remote code execution zero-day, tracked as CVE-2017-5638, in Apache Struts 2, and the bad news is that threat actors in the wild are already exploiting it. According to […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 08, 2017
Dahua Video Recorders and Cameras affected by a serious flaw. Is it a backdoor?

The manufacture Dahua Technology has started releasing firmware updates fix a serious flaw in some models of its video recorders and IP cameras. Security experts believe the flaw is a true backdoor that could be used to remotely access the user database containing usernames and hashed passwords. The backdoor was discovered by a researcher that is known online as “bashis.” Once the attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 07, 2017
The 1.4 Billion records recently leaked come from the DB of the World’s Biggest Spam Networks

A few days ago the experts Chris Vickery announced that he will reveal the source of a massive data leak. Now he said it is from world’s biggest spam networks. A few days ago the popular cyber security expert Chris Vickery from security firm MacKeeper announced that he will shortly reveal the source of a […]