Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
The fourth member of the CryptoWall family of ransomware, CryptoWall 4.0, has just been released, complete with new features and a brand new look. We recently reported that CryptoWall 3.0 has allegedly caused over $325 million in annual damages. CryptoWall first emerged in April 2014. Its first major upgrade was dubbed CryptoWall 2.0, and first emerged in October […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
Security Experts at InfoArmor discovered GovRAT, a malware-signing-as-a-service platform that is offered to APT groups in the underground. In the past, I have explained why digital certificates are so attractive for crooks and intelligence agencies, one of the most interesting uses is the signature of malware code in order to fool antivirus. Naturally, digital certificates […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2015
British police announced Tuesday they had arrested a fourth teenager in connection with a data breach suffered by the Internet Service Provider TalkTalk. The investigation of the TalkTalk data breach is still going, in a few days other two suspects have been arrested by law enforcement under the country’s Computer Misuse Act. The company suffered other two […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
According to a German website, there is a new strain of ransomware dubbed Chimera that also threatens to publish personal data on the Internet. A new strain of ransomware is targeting German companies, it is named Chimera and this time crooks don’t limit their extortion scheme to the file encrypting, they are also threatening victims […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 03, 2015
The website of the vBulletin forum software is down for maintenance following a data breach that exposed personal information of hundreds of thousands users On Sunday, the vBulletin official website has been hacked by an attacker using the moniker “Coldzer0.” The website has been defaced and the vBulletin forum was displaying the message “Hacked by Coldzer0.” At the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2015
A third suspect has been arrested by the British authorities in connection with the TalkTalk breach, he is a 20-year-old from Staffordshire. While the investigation of the TalkTalk data breach is going on, a third man has been arrested in connection with the hack. A third unnamed suspect is a 20-year-old man from Staffordshire, he has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2015
Security researchers of the Cyber Threat Alliance have conducted an investigation into the cybercriminal operations leveraging CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware. Brief Background Ransomware, specifically crypto-ransomware, is a malware classification that encompasses Trojans that enumerate the file system of an infected host, in order to discover and compromise any and every document possible. Crypto-ransomware encrypts the contents of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2015
According to Vodafone UK, criminals used the stolen data obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts. Personal details belonging to roughly 2,000 Vodafone customers have been compromised. According to Vodafone, cyber criminals used the stolen data (emails and passwords) obtained from “an unknown source” to try to access customers’ accounts between […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 01, 2015
Hackers are able to steal Jaguar XFR cars by exploiting a hacking device that sends out a fake signal emulating a wireless key. According to the CCTV footage, a Jaguar XFR parked in a parking lot in Auckland (New Zealand) was stolen with this technique. The video shows the thief that walks towards the car, opens the door […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2015
Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]
