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Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2016
Security Affairs newsletter Round 59 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads The British GCHQ has disclosed dozens vulnerabilities this year Garage4hackers Webcast – Bypass Modern WAFs Exemplified at XSS Security Affairs newsletter Round 58 – News of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2016
Journey of a ‘Hacked Computer’ : From Torrents to Botnets

One out of every three websites were involved in transmitting malware to their users, which was found attached to their digital content. Suppose, there is a movie, released last month. You didn’t have the time to watch it in the theatre and you also want to save some money. What would you do? Go to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2016
Robin Hood CyptMix ransomware promises to donate fee to charity

This is a novelty in the cyber criminal underground, crooks behind the new born CyptMix ransomware promise to donate the fee to charity. No doubts, a very creative idea to extort money to the victims enticing them to pay for a good cause and telling them to think to have the opportunity to help the children. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 01, 2016
Pirate Bay visitors infected with Cerber ransomware via bad ads

Experts at MalwareBytes discovered that Pirate Bay users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign serving the Cerber crypto-ransomware. Recently the visitors of the Pirate Bay website were infected with crypto-ransomware.  Threat actors launched a malvertising attack on Pirate Bay and leveraged on bad ads to serve a ransomware. According to the experts at Malwarebytes attackers used […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2016
The Former Tor developer is the author of Torsploit used by the Feds

Matt Edman is the security expert and former employee of the Tor Project that helped the FBI to hack and de-anonymize Tor users developing the Torsploit. Matt Edman is the cyber security expert and former employee of the Tor Project that helped the FBI to hack and de-anonymize Tor users in several court cases, including the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 28, 2016
Ran$umBin a dark web service dedicated to ransomware

A group cyber criminals created Ran$umBin, A Dark web service which operates the one-stop shop for monetizing ransomware. These days Ransomware are quite common and it is widespread and heavily used by cyber criminals as common tools to steal data as well as extort their owners. Few days back we had seen a new type of […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016
Fareit data stealer being delivered using Windows PowerShell

Researchers at Trend Micro have spotted a new strain of the Fareit malware being delivered to victims using Windows PowerShell. Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered a new variant of the Fareit data stealer, also known as Pony Loader, that is being spread exploiting Windows PowerShell. Fareit first appeared in the wild in since 2011 and last variant abuse the […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2016
Smile, you can recover files encrypted by the CryptXXX ransomware

Security experts at Kaspersky have found a way to decrypt files locked by the CryptXXX ransomware by using the RannohDecryptor utility. Good news for the victims of ransomware, the security experts at Kaspersky Lab have successfully cracked the CryptXXX  ransomware. The CryptXXX ransomware was first spotted by experts from Proofpoint in April when a number of compromised websites hosting the Angler exploit kit were […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2016
Businesses pay $100k to alleged Armada Collective to avoid DDoS

Businesses have already paid more than $100,000 to DDoS extortionists who claim to be the dreaded Armada Collective, but that never DDoS anyone. A criminal organization made $100,000 from a number of businesses across the globe my threatening them of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The criminals requested to the victims the payment of a ransomware to avoid being […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2016
JIGSAW ransomware slowly deletes your files as you shilly-shally to pay the ransom

A new threat is appeared in the wild it is the JIGSAW ransomware that slowly deletes your files as you shilly-shally to pay the ransom. A new crypto-malware has appeared in the wild, its name is JIGSAW ransomware. The BitcoinBlackmailer.exe explains JIGSAW ransomware will encrypt your files adding ‘.FUN’ extension. The author, in the Saw-movie […]