Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2015
IC3 and FBI warn about Business Email Compromise aka Wire Payment Scam

IC3 and FBI warn about a significant increase of cases related to Business Email Compromise, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam. According to an online statement from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the FBI, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam that was extended to 45 countries and […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 30, 2015
News Zeus shows significant a evolution in the criminal ecosystem

Researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a strain of the Zeus malware that includes a very sophisticated control panel and evasion techniques. Malware researchers at SentinelOne  have spotted a new Zeus variant that was used to target major Canadian banks, including the National Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank of Canada. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015
ZeroAccess botnet ‘reloaded’ again with click-fraud activity

The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team observed the ZeroAccess botnet resumes again with click-fraud activity. Law enforcement has destroyed the ZeroAccess botnet, also known as Sirefef, in December 2013 by a joint effort of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners. The ZeroAccess botnet is considered one of most insidious malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015
Spam campaign relies on macros embedded in empty Word documents

Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2015
Cyberpol education is the key solution to fighting any global cyber crime

The CYBERPOL announced a series of training programs that aim to educate both law-enforcement and cyber security officers (CSO). CYBERPOL announced today that it  has refined CYBERPOL’s  focus arena and will be focusing on three main areas of cyber analytical research namely, Cyber Crime, Cyber threats and Cyber Intelligence CYBINT. The collective goal is to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
Reading the ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report

The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the annual report on the cyber threat landscape “ENISA Threat Landscape 2014.” This ENISA Threat Landscape 2014 report (ETL 2014) was prepared […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2015
Lizard Squad claims to have brought down both Facebook and Instagram

Both social network platforms Facebook and Instagram went down on Tuesday while Lizard Squad hacking team claims responsibility for an alleged DDoS attack. A couple of the most popular social networks Facebook and Instagram went down for at least 40 minutes on Tuesday, the official motivation is a technical outage, but the popular hacking crew Lizard Squad claims to have […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking

Gary Miliefsky explain how Spear Phishing works as well as Email Tracking that allow the sender to collect very useful data on the recipient. Defending Against Spear Phishing, RAT Deployment and Email Tracking In my 2015:Year of the RAT Threat Report (see: http://www.snoopwall.com/reports/),  I described how I felt Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) was attacked by […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Topface data breach – 20 Million records exposed

Topface, the Russian-based dating site, has been hacked, User names and e-mail addresses of 20 million visitors are offered for sale online. Nearly 20 Million User names and e-mail addresses of visitors to the Russian-based dating website Topface have been available for sale online, the news first reported by Bloomberg. According to Daniel Ingevaldson, chief technology […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2015
Alleged Lizard Squad members hacked Malaysia Airlines. Are They linked to the IS?

The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by hackers that claimed to be from the Lizard Squad, but who referenced the IS and the cyber Cyber Caliphate. The Malaysia Airlines website was hacked by alleged members of the popular collective “Lizard Squad”, the curious thing is that hackers also referenced Islamic State jihadists. Malaysia Airlines released […]