Pierluigi Paganini
June 22, 2018
According to researchers at Trustwave, the source code of the Red Alert 2.0 Android Trojan is now available for rent on cybercrime underground forums at $500 per month. The experts discovered the latest variant because received a malicious apk via mail and analyzed it. “It all started with a spam message, which curiously had an Android App attachment. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2018
Researchers at Netscout Arbor have discovered a malware downloader advertised on underground forums as a paid open beta product, its name is Kardon Loader. Researchers from Netscout Arbor have discovered a downloader advertised on underground forums dubbed Kardon Loader, it allows customers to build a malware distribution network or a botshop. Advs for Kardon Loader were first discovered on April 21, 2018, the author […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 19, 2018
FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence discovered on the underground market a dataset allegedly containing 200 million unique sets of personally identifiable information stolen from several popular Japanese websites. Security experts from FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence have discovered on underground forums a dataset allegedly containing 200 million unique sets of personally identifiable information (PII) stolen from several popular Japanese website databases. It’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2018
Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 18, 2018
Security experts at CSE CybSec ZLab malware Lab have conducted an interesting analysis of the principal Ransomware-as-a-Service platforms available on the dark web. Over the years, the diffusion of darknets has created new illegal business models. Along with classic illegal goods such as drugs and payment card data, other services appeared in the criminal underground, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
Recently Reddit decided to ban the biggest darknet subreddit, /r/darknetmarkets, used by crime communities to discuss producta and services in the most popular darknet markets. Darknet markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime underground, they are excellent places of aggregation for the demand and the offer of illegal products and services. Communities around principal Darknet markets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2018
My new book, titled ‘Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web’ is available online, enjoy it. It’s a pleasure and an honor for me to announce the availability of my book “Digging the Deep Web: Exploring the dark side of the web“ Kindle Edition — Paper Copy What is the Deep Web and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2018
The Data Keeper Ransomware that infected systems in the wild was generated by a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) service that appeared in the underground recently. A few days ago a new Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) service appeared in the underground, now samples of the malware, dubbed Data Keeper Ransomware, generated with the platforms are have already been spotted in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 25, 2018
Code-signing certificates are precious commodities in the criminal underground, they are used by vxers to sign malware code to evade detection. Other precious commodities in the criminal underground are code-signing certificates, they allow vxers to sign the code for malware to evade detection. Operators of the major black markets in the darknets buy and sell code-signing certificates, but according to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2018
The former NSA hacker and malware researcher Patrick Wardle is back, this time he spotted a new remote access Trojan dubbed Coldroot RAT. The Coldroot RAT is a cross-platform that is targeting MacOS systems and the bad news is that AV software is not able to detect it. The malware acts as a keylogger on MacOS systems prior to […]
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