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Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2016
Hundred Million Stolen MySpace Passwords for sale in the darkweb

The hacker Peace is offering for sale hundred Million stolen MySpace Passwords on the black marketplace. This is one of the greatest leaks of ever. A few days ago a hacker with the nickname “Peace” offered for sale on the black market 117 million LinkedIn account credentials. The same hacker is offering for sale 360 million emails and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2016
LinkedIn breach from 2012 still haunting the security community

A data breach suffered by LinkedIn back in 2012 is still haunting the security community. In 2012, LinkedIn suffered an attack heard around the professional world.  The social networking site that caters to professionals and their social peer groups suffered and breach of nearly 6.5 million users.  The attack was attributed to Russian hackers who […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016
Journalists get scammed trying to buy an AK47 in the Dark Web

Producers from the German broadcaster ARD have conducted an interesting experiment to demonstrate how to buy a weapon on the dark web. When journalists write about the black markets hosted on the dark web always describe these places as crucial aggregators where it is possible to buy any kind of illegal product and service. A keyboard, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 20, 2016
Phineas Fisher hacked a bank to support anti-capitalists in the Rojava region

Phineas Fisher, the notorious Hacking Team hacker, stole $10,000 from a bank and donated the equivalent in Bitcoin to Kurdish anticapitalists in Rojava. Phineas Fisher (@GammaGroupPR), revealed on Reddit that he breached a bank and turned the stolen money to a Kurdish anti-capitalists that operate in the Rojava autonomous region. The region in located in the north of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016
117 Million LinkedIn credentials offered for sale

A hacker who goes by the name “Peace,” is offering 117 million LinkedIn credentials for 5 bitcoin, the precious data come from the 2012 hack. According to Motherboard, a hacker who goes by the name “Peace,” is offering personal details of 117 million LinkedIn users for 5 bitcoin (around $2,200). The hacker is offering the data in […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016
The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

The administrator of Crypto Market launched Silk Road 3.0, the fourth iteration of the popular black market (Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, Silk Road Reloaded). We all know that Silk Road was one of the greatest black marketplaces in the criminal underground, but many ignore that someone is still running the fourth iteration of the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

The popular crime forum Nulled.io has suffered a serious security breach that exposed personal details of more than 500K users and their activities. Nulled.io is a popular crime forum with roughly 500,000 users that but and sell any kind of product and services and share information regarding illegal practices. According to the Risk Based Security, last […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. These cyber attackers are employing the same tactics used to hack online banks and retailers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
Experts also cracked the CryptXXX ransomware 2.0

Security Experts at Kaspersky have updated their decryption tool to adapt to the second version of CryptXXX ransomware in the RannohDecryptor 1.9.1.0. A couple of hours ago I published an interesting post the summarizes the ransomware activities in the last week, and unfortunately, this kind of malware is becoming even more popular in the criminal underground. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2016
Liberty Reserve founder sentenced 20 years in jail

Arthur Budovsky, the co-founder of the online underworld bank Liberty Reserve, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for committing money laundering. Arthur Budovsky, the co-founder of the online underworld bank , was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The man had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to commit money laundering. He was condemned […]