black market

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2013
APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report & mobile black market

APWG published the interesting study APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report on the underground marketplace that revealed the explosion of prolific mobile fraud malware market. The APWG Mobile Financial Fraud report resumed The Anti-Phishing Mobile Working Group investigating on the expansion of the black market for mobile malicious code, the study is crucial to understand the evolution of criminal activities […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2013
Public offer of Zeus FaaS service on social network

Public offer of Zeus FaaS service on Facebook My readers know very well the dynamic of cybercrime enterprise and in particular of the growing interest in monetization malicious codes such as malware, ransomware and more in general botnets. One of the most targeted sector is banking, the evolution of banking services, their introduction on mobile platforms made attractive targets for cyber criminals, one […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 09, 2013
The offer of Russian underground for phishing campaigns

Russian underground is considered one of the most prolific black market, it provides various services that allow cybercriminals to arrange sophisticated scams and provide all necessary tools to arrange a cyber attack. To get an idea of the main dynamics of a market so organized I suggest you follow the investigations of principal security firms […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 26, 2013
Mobile cyber threats, from risky apps to black market activity

Mobile is probably technology that is having the greatest growth, an increasing number of users execute any kind of application on their devices in mobility. The categories of applications are various, they are used at work and during leisure time and offer any kind of feature of various complexity. These applications, the technologies they use […]