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Pierluigi Paganini
August 01, 2018
The security experts from Sophos have published a report on the multimillion-dollar black market business for crooks, they analyzed the SamSam ransomware case as a case study. The researchers that have tracked Bitcoin addresses managed by the crime gang discovered that crooks behind the SamSam ransomware had extorted nearly $6 million from the victims since December […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 30, 2018
ICO platforms are becoming a privileged target for hackers, the last victim in order of time is KickICO, a Blockchain crowdfunding website for ICO. On Friday, KickICO disclosed a security breach, according to the platform attackers accessed to its wallets and stole over 70 million KICK tokens (roughly $7.7 million at the time). The incident occurred on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Data Broker Exactis data breach, one of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 07, 2018
Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni malware that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner. Experts from Kaspersky Labs have discovered a new strain of the Rakhni ransomware family that could infect systems with either a ransomware or a cryptocurrency miner depending upon their configurations. “Way back in 2013 our malware analysts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2018
Experts from Cisco’s Talos team released a free decryption tool for the Thanatos ransomware to recover the files without paying the ransom. The Thanatos ransomware first appeared in the threat landscape in February when it was discovered by researchers at the MalwareHunterTeam. The experts from Talos believe the malware is being actively developed, it was being distributed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2018
WannaSpam – Many users have received a mysterious message that claims their PC was infected by WannaCry Ransomware. Crooks ask victims to pay a ransom, but it’s a scam. Many users have received a mysterious message from a group that called itself the “WannaCry-Hack-Team” that claims that WannaCry Ransomware has returned. The mail informs the recipients that their computer has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 24, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · ClipboardWalletHijacker miner hijacks your Ether and Bitcoin […]
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 20, 2018
Just weeks after Korean exchange Coinrail was hacked, the Bithumb crypto exchange was hacked, crooks stole over $30 million in cryptocurrency. It has happened again, for the second time in a year, the cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has been hacked. The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange confirmed that hackers stole 35 billion won ($31.6 million) worth of cryptocurrency […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 19, 2018
Is cryptocurrency making some wrongdoings harder to commit while making others more rampant in society? Does Cryptocurrency Encourage Crime? People hear a lot about how cryptocurrency — and particularly the blockchain technology associated with it — could decrease some kinds of crime because it’s so transparent and all transactions become part of an unchangeable record. […]
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