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Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2015
Security experts at Sensecy have uncovered ORX-Locker, a Darknet Ransomware-as-a-service platform that could allow everyone to become a cyber criminal. It is becoming even easier to become a cyber-criminal thanks to the model of sale known as malware-as-a-service that offers off-the-shelf malware for rent or sale. Recently malware authors started to offer also Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2015
A new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan dubbed was Sphinx is appeared for sale on the black market, it operates entirely through the Tor network. A few days ago a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on the black market, its name is Sphinx. Sphinx code is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 04, 2015
Police officers from dozen countries have just completed the first training program on Darknets, Tor hidden services and illegal marketplaces. Cybercrime becomes even more sophisticated and explores new technologies for its illegal activities. A growing problem for law enforcement agencies world worldwide is to track illegal activities in the Dark Web. Not only cyber criminals, but also groups […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 29, 2015
Let’s explain what makes the new Bitphone VoIP service, a perfect tool to perform some social engineering calls. Bitphone is a new VoIP service, a perfect tool to perform some social engineering calls, but why? Bitphone is like a Payphone, the only difference is that in this case you need to pay it with bitcoins […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 23, 2015
Researchers have spotted a new strain of the Bartalex macro-based malware that is used to drop the Pony loader malware and the popular Dyre banking Trojan. Bartalex is a macro-based malware that was first discovered earlier this year, security researchers have spotted a new strain of this malicious code dropping the Pony loader malware and the popular Dyre banking […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 22, 2015
Thi post was written by the security experts and colleagues at RedSocks, they explored the argument of the “Attribution” for the Hacking Team data Breach. Attribution is probably one of the toughest things to deal with during a major Cyber Security breach, yet it is one of the most demanded skills.Earlier in the first incident […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 19, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. A new Zero-Day Vulnerability arises from Hacking Team hack Hacking Team Another Flash Zero-Day: CVE-2015-5122 Hacking Team by Numbers – The Infographic Hacking Team chief: Were the GOOD GUYS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 16, 2015
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new strain of TeslaCrypt ransomware, version 2.0, which was improved in a significant way. Malware researchers at Kaspersky detected a new strain of the TeslaCrypt ransomware (Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Bitman.tk), so-called TeslaCrypt 2.0, which includes a number of improvements. This ransomware also encrypts video game files, but the most significant improvement […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 09, 2015
Morpho is the name of a financially motivated espionage group that targets large enterprises, including Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook. Security experts have discovered and analyzed the activities of a financially motivated APT group, dubbed Morpho and Wild Neutron, that has targeted a large number of high profile companies worldwide. According to the analysis published by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 28, 2015
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Password Recovery Scam – how to hack a Gmail account Signal amplification and brute-force attack for car thieves Electronic Frontier Foundation – WhatsApp ranked as the worst at protecting […]
