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Pierluigi Paganini
November 22, 2022
Two Estonian citizens were arrested in Tallinn for allegedly running a $575 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Two Estonian nationals were arrested in Tallinn, Estonia, after being indicted in the US for running a fraudulent cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that caused more than $575 million in losses. According to the indictment, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin, both […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 21, 2022
Google won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals involved in the operations of the Glupteba botnet. This week, Google announced it has won a nearly year-long legal battle against the Glupteba botnet. Glupteba is a highly sophisticated botnet composed of millions of compromised Windows devices. Unlike other botnets, Gluteba leverages cryptocurrency blockchains as a command-and-control mechanism […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2022
An initial access broker claims to have hacked Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its systems for sale on Telegram. A threat actor (0x_dump) claims to have hacked the multinational investment bank Deutsche Bank and is offering access to its network for sale online. The security researcher Dominic Alvieri was one of the first experts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 11, 2022
The U.S. DoJ charged a Russian-Canadian national for his alleged role in LockBit ransomware attacks against organizations worldwide. The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Mikhail Vasiliev, a dual Russian and Canadian national, for his alleged participation in the LockBit ransomware operation. According to the press release published by DoJ, the man is currently in custody in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 08, 2022
Researchers observed a SmokeLoader campaign that is distributing a new clipper malware dubbed Laplas Clipper that targets cryptocurrency users. Cyble researchers uncovered a SmokeLoader campaign that is distributing community malware, such as SystemBC and Raccoon Stealer 2.0, along with a new clipper malware tracked as Laplas. The experts detected more than 180 different samples of the clipper […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2022
Reflecting on the Wannacry ransomware attack, which is the lesson learnt e why most organizations are still ignoring it. In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2022
A popular British hacker was charged by the U.S. authorities for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The British hacker Daniel Kaye (aka Bestbuy, Spdrman, Popopret, UserL0ser) (34) was charged by the U.S. DoJ for allegedly running the ‘The Real Deal’ dark web marketplace. The man was charged with access device fraud […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2022
BidenCash, a popular dark web carding site, released a dump of more than 1.2 million credit cards to promote its service. Operators behind the popular dark web carding market ‘BidenCash’ have released a dump of 1,221,551 credit cards to promote their underground payment card shop. Multiple security firms, noticed the promotional activity, but the news […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 10, 2022
Threat actors got to a database with over 152,000 customer records before its owner, the Turkish branch of Harvard Business Review, closed it. Crooks left a ransom note, threatening to leak the data and inform authorities of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations. Original Post published on CyberNews A recent discovery by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 09, 2022
Everest ransomware operators claimed to have hacked South Africa state-owned company ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. In March 2022, the Everest ransomware operators published a notice announcing the sale of “South Africa Electricity company’s root access” for $125,000. Eskom transforms inputs from the natural environment – coal, nuclear, fuel, diesel, water, and wind – into more […]
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