Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini November 09, 2012
Group-IB found a new zero-day vulnerability in Adobe products

We have had many opportunities recently to discuss about zero-day vulnerabilities, their knowledge is guarantee of success for the attackers and represents in many cases the certainty to not to be discovered. The zero-day vulnerabilities are desirable for cybercrime that desires to find new ways to monetize cyber attacks, but also for state sponsored hackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2012
The big, fake, Anonymous ransomware

Do you remember the case of the Anonymous OS proposed during last months? Who developed that OS and why? Difficult to say, maybe law enforcement to track members of the collective or someone else that desired to benefit of the popularity of the group to exploit a large number of users. A similar case has […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 01, 2012
Russian Underground is just part of a global criminal network

Trend Micro published a very interesting report on the Russian underground market, the document written by Max Goncharov analyzed the services and the products marketed by cyber criminals. The study is based on data obtained from the analysis of online forums and services attended by Russian hackers such as antichat.ru, xeka.ru, and carding-cc.com. Trend Micro […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2012
The amazing growth of cybercrime

The cybercrime represents today one of the primary concerns on global scale, it is a growing industry that is impacting every sector of the society in serious way causing relevant financial loss. The crime is exploring new channels and it is implementing new sophisticated fraud schemas to increase its earnings, daily IT security community registers […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2012
#AntiSecIT Analysis of the Anonymous Italian job

Last week I discussed with a friend on the risks related to attacks of the group Anonymous against strategic offices in Italy. In that occasion I didn’t excluded offensives of the group of hacktivists against institutions of my country predicting them in conjunction with the upcoming elections or financial maneuvers. Anonymous group in Italy appears […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2012
Trend Micro Q3 security report

Trend Micro has released the report “3Q 2012 SECURITY ROUNDUP -Android Under Siege: Popularity Comes at a Price” that presents a worrying trend for malware growth increased of 483%. The increment include cyber espionage malware and also destructive malicious agents targeting mainly the mobile world and in particular Google Android platform. Malware targeting Android platform increased […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 21, 2012
The Deep Dark Web Book Released

After much work during the last months I’m proud and happpy to announce the publishing of The Deep Dark Web book. It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website  http://www.amazon.com/The-Deep-Dark-Web-hidden/dp/1480177598 PAPER BOOK It is AVAILABLE @Amazon website  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009VN40DU KINDLE It is AVAILABLE @SmashWords website  http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/247146 It is AVAILABLE @Barnes & Noble website    http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-deep-dark-web-pierluigi-paganini/1113594408?ean=2940015852837 and we have uploaded it also to Amazon […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2012
Who is attacking the financial world, and why?

Article published on The Malta Indipendent on October 7th 2012 Ron Kelson, Pierluigi Paganini, Fabian Martin, David Pace, Benjamin Gittins   Bank (in)Security:   Between the 1880s and the 1930s, physical bank burglaries were a substantial problem.  To counter these threats bank’s employed vaults to protect their contents from theft, unauthorised use, fire, natural disasters, and other […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2012
What is the Dorkbot worm that is attacking Skype’s users?

What could happen if a malware compromises a communication system adopted daily by 663 million users (info dated September 2011)? Security experts have spread an alert to Skype users about an ongoing attack that try to induce them to load a link that spreads malware. The famous voice-over-Internet application is totally changed from its original […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 10, 2012
Ponemon statistics 2012 on cost of cybercrime

At the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) event “Cybersecurity and American power,” Gen. K.B. Alexander, director of the National Security Agency (NSA) and chief at the Central Security Service (CSS), defined cybercrime “the greatest transfer of wealth in history.” alerting Government on the emergency related to intellectual property theft due cyber espionage. “Symantec placed the cost of […]