Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2015
Law enforcement investigating on terrorism and speculate that terrorists including ISIS members already use Bitcoin and other virtual currencies. The ISIS continues to threaten the world, the group is growing in popularity and its operations are increasingly bloody. ISIS has an efficient organizational capability, its strategy of terror is allowing to broaden its reach, and news of the last […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2015
Security researchers at the CERT team at SociĂ©tĂ© GĂ©nĂ©rale uncovered a new malware campaign which is spreading the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. Security experts at the CERT team at SociĂ©tĂ© GĂ©nĂ©rale discovered a new malware campaign delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. In the past, the criminals used the popular Angler exploit kit in order […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 13, 2015
The newborn Silk Road Reloaded black marketplace adopts I2P Anonymous Network and different virtual currency scheme to protect illegal business. The Operation Onymous conducted by law enforcement allowed the seizure of dozens of black markets on Tor Networks. While all the underground marketplaces in the DeepWeb, including Silk Road 2.0, went down due to the operation of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 06, 2015
The UK-based Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has temporarily suspended its service in the wake of a major cyber attack against company online systems. The UK-based Bitcoin exchange Bitstamp has temporarily suspended its service in wake of compromise. Bitstamp announced that its systems suffered a major cyber attack, which lead to the theft of “less than 19,000 BTC”. “We have […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 27, 2014
Experts at S21sec firm recently detected a new ransomware campaign based on TorrentLocker that infected users prevalently in Italy and Spain. The last report published by Trend Micro revealed that ransomware represents a serious cyber threat in the EMEA region, where countries like Italy and Spain observed over 80% of the affected users. Recently S21sec detected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2014
A group of researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize Bitcoin users from its transactions. The majority of Bitcoin users consider the virtual currency absolutely anonymous, but researchers at the University of Luxembourg have demonstrated that is it possible to de-anonymize clients in a Bitcoin P2P network. In the paper written […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 16, 2014
Trustwave has detected a new series of attacks on servers worldwide based on the exploitation of old CGI-PHP vulnerability to spread BoSSaBoTv2 botnet. It was 2012 when security experts discovered a security flaw (CVE-2012-1823) in some PHP builds that could be exploited by a threat actor to remotely execute commands on the affected server, if PHP was […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 01, 2014
The APWG Report Q2 2014 states that phishing activities continue to increase, phishers are targeting Crypto Currency, Payment Services and Retail Sites. The APWG has published its new report related to phishing activities in the period April – June 2014, the document titled “Phishing Activity Trends Report, 2nd Quarter 2014” states that online payment services […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2014
Researchers at Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit discovered a theft of Bitcoin made hijacking networks of at least 19 Internet service providers. With the rise of Bitcon value has increased the interest of cybercrime, since now we have read of botnet able to mine virtual currency with victim’s resources and malicious codes able to steal Bitcoin […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 15, 2014
Experts at Trusteer have recently discovered an adv on the Russian underground market regarding a new financial Trojan dubbed Kronos. Russian underground is probably the most prolific market for sale of banking malware, malicious code like Citadel, Zeus, Gozi have infected millions computers worldwide dominating the malware threat landscape. The huge demand for banking trojan is creating the conditions […]
