Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2013
Bitcoin in the storm and cybercrime try to take advantage of it

As can be imagined and anticipated the soar of Bicoin value has attracted the interest of cybercrime, recently we read of malware authors and botmasters that trying to exploit new and old channels to steal virtual currency or mine it using computational resources of the victims. Security experts from Kaspersky Lab found variant of malware spread via […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2013
How cybercrime uses a compromised Skype account

In various articles I wrote on the large diffusion of botnets and the capabilities of malicious agents to use as spread channel the social media platforms or popular applications. The diffusion and management of a botnet architecture has never been so easy, the underground offer covers every need and provides advanced customization services. Security expert […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2013
Wandering in the underground, from exploit kits to hacking services

The cybercrime industry knows no crisis, new services are offered in the underground and criminals operating in different sectors are increasing their interest in the possibility to adopt cyber tools to organize prolific scam and fraud. Underground offers everything necessary to commit a cyber crime, from tools for hacking services and in many cases all is […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2013
Cybercrime follows money, malware for Bitcoin mining spread via Skype

Recently I wrote an article related the link between the soar of Bicoin value and expected increased interest of cybercrime to the virtual currency. In the post I anticipated the we will assist to the increase of DDoS attacks and data breach against principal Bitcoin exchanges and services providers, I also introduced the possibility to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2013
Soaring of Bitcoin value continues to attract cybercrime

Surge in the value of , also increasing crimes related to the currency digital The most attentive readers and those who are interested in the main trends of virtual currency will surely have noticed the soaring of prices of Bitcoin in the last month, an inexorable growth motivated by a time of economic uncertainty on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2013
Botnet authors use Evernote account as C&C Server

Botnet author are increasing complexity of the malicious code they use and at the same time security firms are adopting more sophisticated detection methods. Between principal concerns of botmaster the need to improve the capabilities of bot agents to operate silently and necessity to masquerade traffic from bots and Command & Control servers. Focusing on this […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2013
Rise of DIY, new botnet and keylogger generating tool in the wild

Not a day goes by that we’re talking about powerful cyber attacks and the sensational cyber espionage campaigns, the dangerous trend is also sustained by the increased offer of tools and services in the underground. Unfortunately the underground market is very dynamic and very difficult to monitor and to aggravate the situation is the leak […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2013
From largest DDoS of ever vs Spamhaus a menace to global internet

The news is circulating and this morning many colleagues called me to have more details on the event … what’s happening to the internet? All seems to be originated from a single DDoS attack against a unique company, but the event has reached unimaginable proportions with implications for the global network, in particular dragging down Internet […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2013
Exclusive -Details on Investigation of Group-IB on new age of POS malware

New age of POS malware – cash points are in the hackers’ interest, major US banks are compromised. UPDATE January 17th, 2014 I desire to reveal the identity of the person that has conducted the analysis on the BlackPos agent, giving me a significant support for the realization of the post. Andrey Komarov, IntelCrawler’s CEO, has arranged […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2013
Android Malware Seeds for Sale

One of the leading computer security companies of Russia, Group-IB and its CERT (CERT-GIB), found that Android malware is available for sale by cybercriminals. With explosion of mobile market and increase of Android users, more devices can be infected by malware downloaded through Android Market or Google Play or from 3d party WEB-sites. “Nowadays it is […]