Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2016
A replica of AlphaBay market used to steal login credentials

Fraudsters operating on the AlphaBay darknet market have deployed a replica of the popular marketplace to steal login credentials from peers. Paul Mutton, security experts at Netcraft, discovered a fake version of the Alphabay Market (pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion), one of the most popular black markets hosted in the dark web. Paul Mutton speculates that fraudsters have deployed […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016
Once again identity thieves use stolen SSNs in IRS attack

The IRS detected roughly unauthorized attempts using 464,000 unique SSNs, and 101,000 attempts allowed crooks in generating PINs. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently confirmed that cyber criminals abused the Electronic Filing PIN application. The Electronic Filing PIN application is running on irs.gov and allows taxpayers to generate a PIN that they can use to file tax […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2016
Poseidon Group, a single actor behind a long series of attacks

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have linked a series of cyber attacks started in 2001 to a single threat actor called the Poseidon Group. Experts at Kaspersky Lab have identified a single threat actor behind a long-known campaign of cyberattacks financially motivated. The group of hackers identified by Kaspersky dubbed Poseidon Group attempts to extort money […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
Crooks are offering Apple employees up to $23,000 for their login credentials

According to former Apple employees interviewed by the Business Insider, cyber criminals are offering Apple staffers in Ireland up to $23,000 for their login details. Insiders are one of the greatest security problems for any organizations, working from the inside they can operate under the radar for a log time stealing information and sabotaging processes and infrastructures. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 10, 2016
Russian Metel group manipulated ruble-dollar exchange rate with malware

A Russian group of cyber criminals known as METEL has hacked the systems at the Kazan-based Energobank and manipulate Ruble-Dollar Exchange Rate infecting them with a malware. A Russian cyber gang has hacked the systems at the Kazan-based Energobank and manipulate Ruble-Dollar Exchange Rate infecting them with a malware. The event occurred exactly one year ago, in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2016
Rent the infamous AlienSpy backdoor is now quite easy

Security experts at Kaspersky have spotted in the wild a new variant of AlienSpy RAT Family openly offered with a model of malware-as-a-service. Today we will speak about a case of malware-as-a-service, in the specific case the threat is a remote access trojan, aka RAT, that could be used to gain control over multiple platforms, including […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2016
Carbanak cybergang is back and it is not alone

Experts at Kaspersky Lab discovered that Carbanak cybergang is back and other groups are adopting similar APT-style techniques to steal money. Security researchers at the 2016 edition of SAS in Tenerife revealed that the infamous Carbanak gang is back, and it is not the unique group that is adopting APT-style techniques to steal money from banks. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2016
T9000 backdoor, a sophisticated malware that spies on Skype users

The T9000 backdoor discovered by PaloAlto Networks is able to infect victims’ machines to steal files, take screengrabs, and records Skype conversations. A new threat is targeting Skype users, it is a backdoor trojan dubbed T9000 that is able to infect a victim’s machine to steal files, take screengrabs, and record conversations. The T9000 backdoor was spotted […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2016
Hackers leaked DHS staff records, 200GB of files are in their hands

A hacker accessed an employee’s email account at the Department of Justice and stole 200GB of files including records of 9,000 DHS staffers and 20,000 FBI employees. Yesterday, the data related a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) staff directory were leaked online, a Twitter account shared the link to an archive containing 9,355 names. The responsible […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2016
Reuse of login credentials put more than 20M Alibaba accounts at risk

The reuse of login credentials on Taobao exposed more than 20 million accounts on Alibaba’s websites to attacks. According to the state media reports, hackers have targeted over 20 million active accounts on Alibaba Group’s Taobao e-commerce website using Alibaba’s own cloud computing service. The Chinese Giant detected the attack in “the first instance” and responded […]