Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2013
Group-IB Threat Intelligence Report 2012–2013 H1, a must read

Group-IB Threat Intelligence Report 2012–2013 H1 is an excellent analysis on the state and dynamics of today’s market of computer crimes and cyber threats. Group-IB has recently issued an interesting report titled “Group-IB Threat Intelligence Report 2012 – 2013 H1” on the state and dynamics of today’s market of computer crimes and current cyber threats […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2013
A look to Android offer in the underground mobile market

Security experts continues to observe the evolution of the offer of services and malicious software for fraudsters in the Android underground mobile market. In the last months security firms have observed an increase in criminal activities that exploited Android OS supported by the proactive evolution of the offerings in the underground mobile market. Dancho Danchev is considered one of most accredited experts of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2013
Mevade botnet responsible for the spike in Tor traffic

Security researchers at Fox-IT firm found evidence that the spike in Tor traffic is caused by a Mevade botnet that hides its C&C in the anonymizing network. Is the Mevade malware the real responsible for the spike observed in the number of users directly connected to the Tor network? In an article I wrote recently I analyzed the impact on the use […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2013
Hesperbot, the new powerful banking trojan found by ESET

Hesperbot is the name of a new banking trojan detected by ESET, it is a very potent malware which includes some very advanced tricks. Hesperbot is the name of the last banking trojan detected by security firm ESET, a malware that due its effectiveness could create serious problems to banks and financial institutions. Just yesterday I wrote about the evolution of cyber threats targeting online banking services, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2013
Man In The Browser attacks scare banking world

The majority of financial service professionals considers Man In The Browser as the greatest threat to online banking, cybercrime increases its use. Man In The Browser attack, DDoS attacks, phishing are most insidious cyber threats against banking institutions. Last statistics proposed by principal security firms confirm that online banking is considered a lucrative business for […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2013
Cybercrime – Al Assam Alaikum directly linked to Russian Business Network

Security researcher Ian Malloy has identified a new group of hackers dubbed The Al Assam AlaikumCyber Unit linked to recent discoveries on RBN. Security researcher Ian Malloy has been studying facebook.com for several years, watching as the company released product after product and used the hacker business model of ‘build fast and break things.’  Now, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 04, 2013
NetTraveler APT hackers still active improved their attacks

Experts at Kaspersky firm provided evidences that the hackers behind cyber espionage campaign NetTraveler are still active and improved their attack methods. Last June Kaspersky firm uncovered a new global cyber espionage campaign dubbed NetTraveler. Kaspersky’s team discovered that NetTraveler targeted over 350 high profile victims from 40 countries. The name of the operation derives from […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 01, 2013
Cybercrime abuses Facebook paid advertisements

A reading of an interesting study on the criminal abuse of Facebook’s Paid “Sponsor Ads” system to deliver nefarious websites to the users. In the last weeks I presented on an interesting study of the techniques adopted by the cybercriminals organizations to abuse of the popular social network Facebook. The researchers Frank Angiolelli, Eric Feinberg, Ian Malloy issued a follow up […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 27, 2013
China hit by DDoS attack. The Internet inaccessible for hours

China hit by DDoS attack. The CINIC confirmed that the country suffered a DDoS attack over the weekend causing the Internet inaccessibility for hours. During the weekend China’s Internet was taken down by a powerful DDoS attack, according to security experts behind the offensive there is a group of skilled hackers that on Sunday hit the […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 26, 2013
The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous

The FBI claims to have neutralized Anonymous thanks the long series of arrests that hit principal cells of the collective such as LulzSec, Antisec and SABU. FBI in the last months has intensified the investigation on the Anonymous collective, various members of the popular group of hacktivist have been identified and arrested. Lulz Security (Lulzsec) team recognized its responsibility for the Sony Picture […]