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Pierluigi Paganini
November 02, 2015
Security researchers of the Cyber Threat Alliance have conducted an investigation into the cybercriminal operations leveraging CryptoWall 3.0 ransomware. Brief Background Ransomware, specifically crypto-ransomware, is a malware classification that encompasses Trojans that enumerate the file system of an infected host, in order to discover and compromise any and every document possible. Crypto-ransomware encrypts the contents of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 31, 2015
Victims of CoinVault ransomware can now rely on a new set of encryption keys added to the free CoinVault Ransomware Decryptor tool to recover their files. Every day, dozens of users ask me how to decrypt their data locked by various ransomware such as CoinVault or Bitcryptor? Now I have a good news for them, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 27, 2015
The UK Metropolitan Police announced to have arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses a 15-Year-Old alleged involved in the TalkTalk attack. The UK Metropolitan Police has announced the arrest of a 15-Year-Old in connection to the recent data breach suffered by the British ISP TalkTalk. Law enforcement from the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 22, 2015
Experts at Bleeping Computer blog are reporting a new strain of ransomware dubbed LowLevel04 that is spreading via Remote Desktop and Terminal Service. Security experts at Bleeping Computer blog are reporting a new strain of ransomware dubbed LowLevel04 that is using an unusual infection mechanism, it is being spread via Remote Desktop and Terminal Service. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2015
Researchers at ESET have spotted a new strain of banking Trojan dubbed Brolux that is targeting online banking users in Japan. Once again customers of the Japanese banks have been targeted by a malware, after the recent campaigns based on Shifu, Tsukuba, and Neverquest, now its time for a new threat. According to the security firm ESET […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 25, 2015
Michael Horowitz from Computerworld discovered an application called “Lenovo Customer Feedback Program 64,” which is used to gather customers feedback data. Once, two, three … this is the third time that security experts discover a spyware pre-installed on Lenovo laptops and workstations, and also in this case without the knowledge of its millions of users. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 19, 2015
The popular group of hackers dubbed w0rm breached the hacking forum “Monopoly” offering for sale all data present in its database. This is the classic example of the lack of rules within underground communities, today we will speak about a group of hackers who targeted another group and is offering their data for sale at $500. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 11, 2015
According to a report recently issued by Akamai, the DD4BC criminal group has been responsible for at least 114 DDoS attacks on its customers. According the Akamai firm, the criminal crews known as DD4BC has carried out at least 114 DDoS attacks with an average peak bandwidth of around 13.34 Gbps on its customers since April […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 07, 2015
Security researchers have observed a spike in extortion attempts and phishing campaigns against the Ashley Madison users … are they effective? The hack of the Ashley Madison website has demonstrated us how much dangerous could be a cyber attack against a website that manage sensitive and confidential information of millions users. The disclosure of the Ashley Madison dump has […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Agora black marketplace announced Tuesday evening that it will go temporary offline fearing the exploitation of the Tor flaws recently discovered. Operators of principal black markets are concerned about the real level of anonymity offered by the Tor network after the discovery of critical vulnerabilities affecting the anonymizing system. The administrators of the Agora black market, one […]
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