Pierluigi Paganini
June 26, 2019
European law enforcement agencies have arrested 6 individuals in connection with a €24 million ($27.2 million) cryptocurrency theft. An operation conducted by European law enforcement agencies resulted in the arrest of 6 individuals involved in a €24 million ($27.2 million) cryptocurrency theft. The group of cyber criminals is composed of five men and one woman, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 21, 2019
Security experts at Malwarebytes have discovered a new macOS crypto miner, tracked as Bird Miner, that works by emulating Linux. Researchers at MalwareBytes have spotted a new cryptominer, tracked as Bird Miner, that targets macOS and emulates Linux. The malware spreads via a cracked installer for the music production software Ableton Live that is distributed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2019
Researchers discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited to deliver Windows and Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges. Experts discovered that recently patched Firefox zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) has been exploited by threat actors to deliver Windows and Mac malware to employees of cryptocurrency exchanges. CVE-2019-11707 is a type confusion vulnerability in Array.pop. Mozilla has addressed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 18, 2019
Researcher leaked online a dataset containing over 7,000,000 transactions scraped from the Venmo public API Venmo is a digital wallet app owned by PayPal that lets you make and share payments with friends. In August 2016, security expert Martin Vigo devised a method to abuse an optional SMS-based feature that allowed users to authorize payments […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2019
German intelligence agencies could hack servers, smartphones and any other devices under a draft law drawn up by the German Interior Ministry. The German Interior Ministry would allow the German domestic and foreign intelligence services are to hack into computers and smartphones under a draft law. According to the draft law, the country’s intelligence agencies […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2019
The Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself to protect the funds of its users and avoid that hackers steal them exploiting a flaw in its Agama wallet. The story I’m going to tell you is amazing, the Cryptocurrency startup Komodo hacked itself after discovered a backdoor in its Agama wallet. Komodo’s Agama Wallet allows users to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2019
Google aims at eliminating the use of deceptive installation tactics among Chrome browser extensions introducing a new policy. Google announced a new policy for Chrome browser extensions to eliminate the use of deceptive installation tactics. The additional changes are part of the Project Strobe presented by Google in October 2018 in the aftermath of the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 02, 2019
The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail has been accused of offering voluntarily real-time surveillance assistance to law enforcement. The popular privacy-focused email service ProtonMail made the headlines because it has been accused of supporting real-time surveillance carried out by law enforcement. On May 10, while Stephan Walder, a public prosecutor and head of the Cybercrime […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
According to Sectigo, most of the certificates used to sign the malware submitted to VirusTotal and issued by the company were expired and were already revoked. This week experts at Chronicle published a study on signed malware registered on VirusTotal that states that most of the digital certificates used to sign malware samples found on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 26, 2019
European law enforcement seized and shut down Bestmixer.io for reportedly laundering over $200 million in cryptocurrency. This week the Europol has dealt another blow to cybercrime, the European police along with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), and Luxembourg authorities shut down Bestmixer.io, on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing services. A […]
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