Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2013
Security researchers at Kaspersky Lab have detected a 64-bit Zeus banking trojan version enhanced with communication capability on the Tor network. Is Zeus banking trojan dead? Absolutely no! Periodically security experts found new a variant that includes new features to make it more resilient and able to spread itself via social networks. Last variant was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2013
Intelligence experts at IntelCrawler discovered a Russian-speaking group offers bulletproof hosting in Syria, Lebanon … Countries that represent the new heaven for cybercriminals IntelCrawler: «Near East – new heaven for bulletproof hosting providers, first effects of war on cyberspace in action» Los-Angeles CA– The US based cyber and risk intelligence provider IntelCrawler has announced […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 08, 2013
NSS Labs issued the report titled “The Known Unknowns” to explain dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for “cyber conflict” to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an Information Warfare context, today I decided […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 07, 2013
Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners decapitated the feared ZeroAccess botnet that hijacks search results Microsoft this week has announced that thanks to a joint operation of its Digital Crimes Unit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) and technology companies has decapitated ZeroAccess botnet. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2013
JPMorgan Chase & Co has recently announced to have suffered a cyber attack in July that exposed 465,000 card users to data loss. JPMorgan Chase & Co has announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned around 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 05, 2013
Two Million stolen Facebook, Twitter login credentials were found on ‘Pony Botnet’ Command and Control Server by Trustwave’s researchers. Two Million social media credentials stolen by cybercriminals have been found by security experts at Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, the collection includes popular social media like Facebook and Twitter and popular websites such as Google and Yahoo. Trustwave’s SpiderLabs […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 30, 2013
Today the official Vodafone Iceland was breached by group of hackers Maxn3y, left defaced and a heap of data leaked from its servers. Vodafone Iceland was hacked by the group of hackers Maxn3y (@AgentCoOfficial) who in the past has stolen data from airports’ systems, electronic giants and fast food company. The hackers announced via Twitter […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2013
Atrax, yet another commercial crimekit on the black market, a malware able to exploit Tor and that implements numerous features including Bitcoin mining. Atrax is the name of the last crimekit that is sold in the underground market, its particularity is the capability to exploit Tor networks to communicate with Command & Control infrastructure. Jonas […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 25, 2013
Security experts Stewart from Dell SecureWorks and independent researcher David Shearhave explored online underground marketplace for stolen data. Digital identity is one of the most attractive goods sold in the underground, to a growing demand coincided with a more structured supply that will satisfy even the most complex requirements. Cybercrime pays and in the majority […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2013
Trusteer researchers have uncovered a sneaky piece of financial malware, known as i2Ninja, being sold on a Russian cyber crime forum. A new financial malware dubbed i2Ninja menaces banking, despite it has yet to be discovered in the wild, researchers at the IBM company Trusteer have found a sneaky piece of the malicious code on […]
