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Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016

The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

The administrator of Crypto Market launched Silk Road 3.0, the fourth iteration of the popular black market (Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, Silk Road Reloaded). We all know that Silk Road was one of the greatest black marketplaces in the criminal underground, but many ignore that someone is still running the fourth iteration of the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016

Redirector.Paco, a Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

According to the experts at Bitdefender an HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco infected almost 1 million devices since now. Security experts at Bitdefender spotted a new click fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco that has been around at least since September 2014 and has already infected more than 900,000 devices over the years. Crooks behind the Redirector.Paco aimed to create a clickbot that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

The popular crime forum Nulled.io has suffered a serious security breach that exposed personal details of more than 500K users and their activities. Nulled.io is a popular crime forum with roughly 500,000 users that but and sell any kind of product and services and share information regarding illegal practices. According to the Risk Based Security, last […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

CVE-2016-4117 – FireEye revealed the exploit chain of recent attacks

The FireEye researcher Genwei Jiang revealed the exploit chain related to phishing attacks leveraging CVE-2016-4117 flaw recently fixed by Adobe. Security experts at FireEye have recently spotted an attack leveraging on an Adobe zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) recently patched. The CVE-2016-4117 flaw affects older versions of the Adobe Flash, a few days ago the company was informed of a new zero-day […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. These cyber attackers are employing the same tactics used to hack online banks and retailers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

ATM Skimming attacks are skyrocketing

Security and fraud experts are observing a significant increase in the number of ATM skimming attacks across the world. It’s an emergency! Security and fraud experts are observing a significant increase in the number of cyber attacks against the ATMs, in particular, skimming attacks. The popular investigator Brian Krebs recently published an interesting post that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

Week in Ransomware – Week of May 13th, 2016

Just in a week several new ransomware variants, services, and updates have been discovered in-the-wild, disclosed publicly, and thoroughly analyzed. Statistical Summary This week, in a span of just five (5) days (Monday, May 9th, 2016 – Friday, May 13th, 2016), through the collaborative efforts of several organizations and individual analysts around the globe, several […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is linked to Sony Pictures hack

Experts at the BAE security firms collected evidence that demonstrates the malware used in the recent cyberheists is linked to 2014 Sony Pictures hack. A second bank was a victim of a malware-based attack, the news was recently confirmed by the SWIFT. The investigation conducted by the security researchers at BAE Systems are making the situation very intriguing because […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist

The SWIFT announced that a second commercial bank was a victim of a cyber heist, the crime appears to be part of a broad online attack on global banking. A second malware-based attack hit the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) system. The news was spread by the SWIFT on Thursday, the attack has many similarities with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2016

Talking with Azeem Aleem about the evolution of cyber threats

Azeem Aleem, Director for the Advanced Cyber Defense Services Practice – EMEA at RSA, shares its vision on the evolution of threats in the next future. The last 14 months have highlighted that attacks domains are expanding. We have seen the trends with OPM data breach, to sensitive PII information leak at Anthem breach and […]

Cyber Crime

The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

Redirector.Paco, a Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

CVE-2016-4117 – FireEye revealed the exploit chain of recent attacks

The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

ATM Skimming attacks are skyrocketing

Week in Ransomware – Week of May 13th, 2016

Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is linked to Sony Pictures hack

SWIFT announced that a second bank was a victim of cyber heist

Talking with Azeem Aleem about the evolution of cyber threats

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