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Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2019
Police seized Bestmixer, the mixing service washed at least $200 million in a year

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 […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2019
Security Affairs newsletter Round 213 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! A hacker has taken over at least 29 IoT botnets Hackers stole card data from 201 campus online stores in US and Canada, is it the Magecart group? NoScript […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2019
Mysterious attacks wipe Git repositories and ask a ransom to rescue code

Extortion practice hit programmers’ Git repositories, experts observed a new piece of ransomware that wipes them and replaces the code with a ransom note. Hackers are using a new piece of ransomware to target GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket repositories, wiping code and commiting, and leaving a ransom note. The hackers wipe out all commit history […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2019
Authorities shut down major darknet marketplaces: the Wall Street Market and Valhalla

German police have shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested its operators. The German police, with the support of Europol, Dutch police and the FBI, has shut down one of the world’s largest black marketplace in the darkweb, the ‘Wall Street Market,’ and arrested […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2019
Crooks exploit Oracle WebLogic flaw to deliver Sodinokibi Ransomware

Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched critical Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability to deliver the Sodinokibi ransomware to organizations. Threat actors are delivering a new piece of malware, tracked as Sodinokibi, by exploiting a recently patched Oracle WebLogic Server vulnerability. Oracle WebLogic Server is a Java EE application server currently developed by Oracle Corporation, it […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2019
ElectrumDoSMiner botnet reached 152,000 hosts

Researchers at Malwarebytes are monitoring the evolution of the ElectrumDoSMiner DDoS botnet that reached 152,000 infected hosts. MalwareBytes researchers are closely monitoring attacks against users of the popular Electrum Bitcoin wallet, in particular, the evolution of the Electrum DDoS botnet. In mid-April, experts at MalwareBytes published a report warning of cyber attacks against users of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2019
Stuart City is the new victim of the Ryuk Ransomware

Another city fell victim of a malware attack, systems at the city of Stuart, Fla., were infected by the Ryuk ransomware on April 13, 2018. Law enforcement is investigating a ransomware attack that hit the City of Stuart on April 13, 2018. The Ryuk malware infected several servers and forced them offline. “City officials on […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 19, 2019
Operator of Codeshop Cybercrime Marketplace Sentenced to 90 months in prison

Djevair Ametovski was sentenced to 90 months in prison for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named Codeshop. Macedonian national Djevair Ametovski (32) was sentenced to 90 months in prison by US DoJ authorities for operating an international cybercrime marketplace named Codeshop. Codeshop.su was a website that specialized in selling stolen payment card data. Ametovski acquired […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2019
Gnosticplayers round 5 – 65 Million+ fresh accounts from 6 security breaches available for sale

The popular hacker Gnosticplayers made the headlines again, he is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. The popular hacker Gnosticplayers is offering for sale on the dark web the fifth round of hacked accounts. Between February and March, the hacker disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 12, 2019
Emsisoft released a free decryptor for CryptoPokemon ransomware

Good news for the victims of the CryptoPokemon ransomware, security experts at Emsisoft just released a free decrypter tool. Victims of the CryptoPokemon ransomware have a good reason to smile, security experts at Emsisoft have released a free decrypter tool. The ransomware was first discovered by experts at IntezerLabs, the CryptoPokemon ransomware is a new […]