Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2016
Feds request Judge to review the order to reveal TOR Exploit Code

FBI is fighting back against the federal judge’s order to reveal the Tor Exploit and with DoJ filed a sealed motion requesting the review of the ruling. A few weeks ago, a judge has ordered the FBI to reveal the complete source code for the TOR exploit to defense lawyers in a child porn case. In a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
Bitdefender Vaccine now supports also CTB-Locker, Locky, TeslaCrypt

The prevention is better that the cure, users can immunize their PC against CTB-Locker, Locky and TeslaCrypt using Bitdefender Anti-ransomware vaccine. Security experts from the Romanian security vendor Bitdefender have updated their anti-ransomware vaccine in order to protect machines from the latest versions of the CTB-Locker, Locky and TeslaCrypt ransomware. According data recently published by […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
FBI breaks into San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone

The Department of Justice says the FBI has broken into the iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter, it no longer needs the help of Apple. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced it has broken into San Bernardino shooter‘s iPhone and it had accessed encrypted stored on the device. After a long battle between Apple and […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2016
USB Thief, the new USB-based data stealing Trojan

USB Thief, the new USB-based data-stealing Trojan discovered by ESET that relies on USB devices in order to spread itself and infect also air-gapped systems Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new insidious data-stealer, dubbed USB Thief (Win32/PSW.Stealer.NAI), that relies on USB devices in order to spread itself. USB Thief is able to infect […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2016
Watch out, IRS Tax Fraud activities on the rise

Security experts and government agencies confirm that IRS Tax Fraud And Phishing campaigns are increasing thanks to new techniques and tools. Internal Revenue Service tax fraud has reached a peak in the last year, crooks are intensifying their activity adopting new techniques to monetize their efforts. According to security experts that are monitoring the phenomena, Tax-related […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2016
PowerWare ransomware, a new fileless threat in the wild

Experts at Carbon Black spotted in the wild a new threat dubbed PowerWare ransomware that exploits PowerShell, the native Windows framework. Authors of ransomware are implementing new features to make their malware even more dangerous and effective. Yesterday I wrote about the new Petya ransomware, which overwrites MBR causing a blue screen of death, now I […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2016
PETYA ransomware overwrites MBR causing a blue screen of death

The Petya ransomware causes a blue screen of death (BSoD) by overwriting the MBR and leaves a ransom note at system startup. Ransomware is one of the most dangerous threats of this first part of the year, recently experts at TrendMicro has spotted a new malicious code dubbed Petya (RANSOM_PETYA.A) that overwrites MBR to lock users out […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 26, 2016
Japan – Police discovered 18 Million Stolen login Credentials

Japan – The police has found on a server of a company more than 18 million login credentials, 90% of which belongs to customers of Yahoo Japan. The Japanese newspaper The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that the Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department has arrested the president and a number of employees at the Tokyo-based Nicchu Shinsei Corp in November. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2016
EC Council Website Hacked and used to serve malicious code

Researchers at Fox-IT warn that the website of security certification provider EC Council has been compromised to host the malicious Angler Exploit Kit. No one is secure, we are all potential targets, even if you are a skilled expert and the fact that I’m going to tell you demonstrates it. The website of security certification provider […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2016
Hackers stole records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise

Hackers reportedly stole the records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise which are offered for sale in the criminal underground. According to KrebsOnSecurity, data leaked after a security reach at Verizon Enterprise Solutions are available in the cyber criminal underground. Records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise are available for sale, the entire archive is offered for $100,000, but […]