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Pierluigi Paganini October 27, 2017
Digging the Middle East and North African cybercrime underground market

Security experts from Trend Micro have published an interesting report on the Middle East and North African cybercrime underground market, enjoy it! We explained several times that criminal communities adopt different tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) depending on the location they operate. Experts at Trend Micro have highlighted the differences between the different underground communities, they […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2017
Bad Rabbit ransomware rapidly spreads, Ukraine and Russia most targeted countries

A new strain of malware dubbed Bad Rabbit ransomware has been found rapidly spreading in Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. A new massive ransomware campaign is rapidly spreading around Europe, the malware dubbed Bad Rabbit has already affected over 200 major organizations mainly in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Japan, and Turkey in a few hours. The Bad Rabbit ransomware has infected […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2017
CUTLET MAKER ATM malware offered for 5000 USD on darknet forum

Hacking ATM could be very easy thanks to the availability of the CUTLET MAKER ATM malware on an underground hacking forum. Wannabe crooks can buy an ATM malware on a Darknet market for around $5000, the discovery was made by researchers at Kaspersky Lab that noticed a forum post advertising the malicious code dubbed Cutlet Maker. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2017
Republican polling firm Victory Phones database was hacked

The databases of the Republican polling firm Victory Phones were hacked just after the 2016 election, exposing donor records. Victory Phones, an automated phone research, and data compilation firm was hacked in January exposing data on hundreds of thousands of Americans who submitted donations to Republican political campaigns. Victory Phones carries out polling on behalf of […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 02, 2017
Dream Market dark web drug dealer OxyMonster arrested on way to beard contest

The Dream Market dark web drug dealer was arrested by US authorities after he traveled the US for this year’s annual World Beard and Mustache Championships. A Dark-Web drug dealer was arrested by US authorities after he traveled the US for this year’s annual World Beard and Mustache Championships. The French national Gal Vallerius (38) was arrested a few weeks ago while he was […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 29, 2017
Crooks hacked Microsoft servers to mine Monero, they earned $63K in 3 months

Experts from security firm ESET discovered cyber criminals exploiting Microsoft Servers to mine Monero and already earned $63,000 in 3 Months. Mining cryptocurrencies is a profitable business, but it is also expensive because it needs significant investment in computing power. Crooks are using malicious code that steals computing resources of victims’ machine and the number of […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 27, 2017
Experts analyzed an Advanced ‘all in memory’ CryptoWorm

The popular security expert Marco Ramilli shared the analysis of a cryptoworm having significant capabilities, enjoy the report! Introduction. Today I want to share a nice Malware analysis having an interesting flow. The “interesting” adjective comes from the abilities the given sample owns. Capabilities of exploiting, hard obfuscations and usage of advanced techniques to steal […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 25, 2017
Experts say United Cyber Caliphate hackers have low-level cyber capabilities

United Cyber Caliphate members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication tools and used to search them into the criminal underground. According to Kyle Wilhoit, a senior security researcher at DomainTools, who made a speech at the DerbyCon hacking conference in US, ISIS members stopped trying to develop their own hacking and communication […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2017
Security Affairs newsletter Round 129 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Once again thank you! ·      400,000 UK consumers at risk after the Equifax data breach ·      Chrome will label Resources delivered via FTP as Not Secure ·      MAGENTO 2.0.16 and 2.1.9 security update fixes critical flaw in […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 22, 2017
Crooks using Linux.ProxyM IoT botnet to send spam messages

Experts at security firm Doctor Web discovered a new botnet of IoT devices leveraging the Linux.ProxyM, that is used by crooks for mass spam mailings. The most popular thingbot since now is the Mirai, but it isn’t the only one targeting Linux-based internet-of-things (IoT) devices. Researchers with security firm Doctor Web discovered a new botnet of […]