Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2014
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Stores Inc warns over credit card fraud

Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer, confirmed it is investigating a possible data breach affecting customer cards. Michaels Stores Inc., US-based arts-and-crafts retailer maybe is the last victim of a massive data breach, a few weeks after the hack of US retailer Target and Neiman Marcus. Michaels Stores Inc has more than 1,250 stores across the United […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2014
Spear phishing against Microsoft, exposed law enforcement inquiries

Attackers breached the email accounts of Microsoft staff, probably with a spear phishing attack, accessing to documents on law enforcement inquiries. Spear phishing attacks are within most insidious attacks for private companies and organizations, they are primarily caused for data breach occurred in the last couple of years. Despite the awareness of this type of cyber […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 25, 2014
Discovered first Win trojan to serve banking Android malware on mobile

Symantec experts recently came across a Windows malicious code that attempts to infect connected Android devices serving an Android malware. Researchers at Symantec antivirus firm have discovered a malicious code that is able to infect Android mobile device with a banking malware during synchronization. The Android malware that was designed to hit Windows user could compromise user’s Smartphone during file […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 24, 2014
2 million stolen from gas station ATMs with Bluetooth-enabled skimmers

A criminal organization hit gas station ATMs located in South America. The gang used Bluetooth-enabled skimmers to steal 2 million dollars from customers. Here we are again to write on another huge Credit Card theft that hit ATMs located at Gas Stations  in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina. US prosecutors have charged 13 members of a criminal gang […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2014
Spam campaign advertise WhatsApp for PC-beware it is a Trojan banker

Kaspersky Lab malware expert Dmitry Bestuzhev revealed a large-scale spam email campaign that is advertising the PC version of the mobile WhatsApp app to spread a banking trojan. A large-scale spam email campaign is advertising the PC version of the popular mobile messaging application WhatsApp, it’s a pity that the application does not actually exist […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 23, 2014
Who is spying on Tor network exit nodes from Russia?

Researchers Winter and Lindskog identified 25 nodes of Tor network that tampered with web traffic, decrypted the traffic, or censored websites. Two researchers, Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog of Karlstad University in Sweden, presented the results of a four-month study  conducted to test Tor network exit nodes for sneaky behavior, it has been discovered that a not specified Russian […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 22, 2014
The author of BlackPOS malware professes his innocence and good faith

Thanks to efficient investigation conducted by private firms like IntelCrawler, BlackPOS author was identifyed and professes his innocence and good faith. I was within the official source to spot the 23-year-old teenager who developed the BlackPOS malware thanks to the revelations made by Cyber Intelligence firm IntelCrawler. The author of BlackPOS was known as “ree[4]” in […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2014
IntelCrawler update- BlackPOS author forgot delete social network page

Security experts at IntelCrawler provided a new interesting update on BlackPOS author, he forgot to delete his social network page. Intelligence firm IntelCrawler announced a few days ago that the author of the BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware used in the attack against Target and Neiman Marcus retailers a teenager known in the underground with the pseudonym of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2014
IoT – Discovered first Internet of Things cyberattack on large-scale

Proofpoint discovered more Than 750,000 Phishing and SPAM Emails Launched From “Thingbots” Including Televisions, Fridge Recently security researchers from Proofpoint uncovered a cyber attack against the Internet of Things (IoT), more than 100,000 Refrigerators, Smart TVs and other smart household appliances have been hacked to send out 750,000 malicious spam emails. The nightmare comes true, dozens […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2014
17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS/Kaptoxa malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon

IntelCrawler Exclusive “17-years-old teenager is the author of BlackPOS malware (Target), several other breaches may be revealed soon” The massive data breach at Target during the 2013 holiday shopping season which the retailer now admits affected 70 million customers used an inexpensive “off the shelf” malware known as BlackPOS. The same malware may have also […]