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Pierluigi Paganini January 10, 2020
North Korea-linked Lazarus APT continues to target cryptocurrency exchanges

In the last 18 months, North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Kaspersky researchers have analyzed the attacks carried out by North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group in the past 18 months and confirmed their interest in banks and cryptocurrency exchanges. In the mid-2018, the APT targeted cryptocurrency exchanges and cryptocurrency […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 05, 2020
DeathRansom ransomware evolves encrypting files, but experts identified its author

DeathRansom was considered fake ransomware due to the fact that it did not implement an effective encryption process, but now things are changing. DeathRansom is a ransomware family that was initially classified as a joke because it did not implement an effective encryption scheme. Researchers at Fortinet published an analysis that shows the threat evolving, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 02, 2020
Watch out, sextortion scammers are using a new tactic

Sextortion cybercrimes continue to threaten Internet users, scammers are using new tactics to bypass spam filters and secure email gateways. Sextortion scams continue to evolve to bypass security measures such as spam filters and secure email gateways. Sextortion messages threaten the victims of revealing their private videos while watching adult websites or making virtual sex […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 31, 2019
Dark web Grey Market still down, users speculate possible Exit Scam

Exit scam – Bad news for Grey Market users, one of its administrators revealed that another administrator had emptied the cold storage wallets. According to one of the admins of the Grey Market marketplace one of the admins, ‘theiving‘, has stolen all the users’ funds the platform stored for the escrow service. “ you can […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 21, 2019
Greece to extradite Alexander Vinnik to France to face a charge of money laundering

Greece authorities will extradite to France Russian Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, to face a charge of money laundering. Greek justice minister Costas Tsiaras announced the extradition to France of the Russian of Alexander Vinnik, who allegedly headed the Bitcoin exchange BTC-e, on suspicion of money laundering. In September 2019, the decision of […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 01, 2019
Data of 21 million Mixcloud users available for sale on the dark web

The online music streaming service Mixcloud was recently breached by a hacker that is attempting to sell stolen user data a dark web marketplace. On Friday, the hacker that goes online with the handle “A_W_S” contacted multiple media outlets to disclose the hack, it also provided data samples as proof of the data breach. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 27, 2019
Upbit cryptocurrency exchange hacked, crooks stole $48.5 million worth of ETH

Another South Korean cryptocurrency exchange was hacked, this time the victim is Upbit that lost $48.5 million in cryptocurrency.  The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit disclosed a security breach, the company told its customers that hackers have stolen $48.5 million in crypto-currency from its hot wallet.  The company has halted its operations on Wednesday, customers […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 18, 2019
New NextCry Ransomware targets Nextcloud instances on Linux servers

NextCry is a new ransomware that was spotted by researchers while encrypting data on Linux servers in the wild. Security experts spotted new ransomware dubbed NextCry that targets the clients of the NextCloud file sync and share service. The name comes from the extensions the ransomware appends to the filenames of encrypted files. The malicious code targets Nextcloud […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2019
Italian police shut down darkweb Berlusconi market and arrested admins

Italian law enforcement shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market and arrested three suspected of being its administrators. Italian financial police “Guardia di Finanza” shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market hosted on the Tor network and arrested three administrators. The site was managed by two individuals that go online with nicknames of “VladimirPutin” with […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
Everis and Spain’s radio network Cadena SER hit by ransomware

NTT DATA-owned firm Everis​ is one of Spain’s largest managed service providers (MSP), it has suffered a ransomware attack, and it was not the only case. Systems at Spain’s largest managed service providers (MSP) Everis have been infected by a ransomware, and it was not alone because the also Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER […]