Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2017
The NIC Asia Bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers

The NIC Asia Bank requested the support of the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police to track down the crooks who hacked the SWIFT server. Once again hackers targeted SWIFT systems to steal money from a financial institution. The victim is the NIC Asia Bank that once discovered illegal fund transfer with its SWIFT server requested support from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 05, 2017
Popular Anime crunchyroll.com hijacked to distribute a keylogger

The popular Anime site Crunchyroll.com was hijacked to distribute malware, according to the operators the site was not hacked. The popular Anime site Crunchyroll.com was hijacked to distribute malware, once discovered the hack, the operators have issued alerts informing visitors to don’t visit the site and later they took it offline. And for our English-speaking […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2017
Hacker threatens Canadian University to dump student info unless the university pay a ransom

A hacker is attempting to extort the Canadian University of Fraser Valley (UFV), threatening to dump student information unless the university pays a ransom. Extortion is a winning criminal model for crooks, a hacker is attempting to extort the Canadian University of Fraser Valley (UFV), threatening to dump student information unless the university pay 30,000 […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2017
Fake WhatsApp app in official Google Play Store downloaded by over a million Android users

A fake WhatsApp version deployed on the Play Store was downloaded by over a million users, a failure for the automated checks implemented by Google. Once again crooks exploited the official Google’s Play Store as a repository for malicious apps. This time a fake WhatsApp version was used to infect over a million users that […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2017
Hackers poisoned Google Search results to spread Zeus Panda banking Trojan

Experts at Cisco Talos observed crooks exploiting black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to spread the Zeus Panda banking Trojan. Threat actors behind the Zeus Panda banking Trojan leveraged black Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to propose malicious links in the search results. Crooks were focused on financial-related keyword queries. The campaign was first spotted by experts at Cisco Talos, attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 03, 2017
FireEye announced the arrest of LeakTheAnalyst, the hacker who claimed to have breached its systems

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia announced the arrest of LeakTheAnalyst, the hacker who claimed to have breached its systems back in July. Late July a hacker who goes online with the moniker LeakTheAnalyst claimed to have breached FireEye systems. The hacker leaked details alleged stolen from a compromised system maintained by Adi Peretz, a Senior Analyst at Mandiant. The hacker leaked a […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 02, 2017
Undetectable ATM shimmers used to steal Chip Based Card worldwide

Crooks continue using skimmers in card frauds, these devices are becoming even more sophisticated, last wave of attacks leverages on so-called Shimmers. Crooks continue to skimmers in payment card frauds, these devices are becoming even more sophisticated. The number of cyber attacks against ATM involving so-called ‘insert skimmers’ is increasing. Insert Skimmers are wafer-thin fraud devices designed to fit […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
Silence Group is borrowing Carbanak TTPs in ongoing bank attacks

A cybercrime gang called Silence targeted at least 10 banks in Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia borrowing hacking techniques from the Carbanak group. A cybercrime gang called Silence targeted at least 10 banks in Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia borrowing hacking techniques from the dreaded Carbanak hacker group that stole as much as $1 billion from banks worldwide. […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2017
MBR-ONI ransomware involved in targeted attacks against Japanese organizations

MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, experts speculate it was used to cover larger hacking campaigns. MBR-ONI is a new ransomware that is being used for targeted attacks in Japan, it is a bootkit ransomware that uses a modified version of the legitimate open-source disk encryption utility DiskCryptor to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2017
Experts spotted a new strain of the Sage Ransomware that implements Anti-Analysis capabilities

Security experts from Fortinet spotted a new strain of the Sage ransomware that included new functionalities, such as anti-analysis capabilities. Sage 2.0 is a new ransomware first observed in December and not now it is distributed via malicious spam. Sage is considered a variant of CryLocker ransomware, it is being distributed by the Sundown and RIG exploit kits. The […]