Botnets

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 April 18, 2013
Anonymous #OpIsrael, use of botnets & hypothesis on attackers

We all remember the debated attacks of Anonymous collective against Israeli government that targeted various websites of the country last April 7th. The data on the cyber attacks reported by Israel government are really different from the one provided by the group of hacktivists in the damage report for #OpIsrael that account for a Total […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 09, 2013
Wandering in the underground, from exploit kits to hacking services

The cybercrime industry knows no crisis, new services are offered in the underground and criminals operating in different sectors are increasing their interest in the possibility to adopt cyber tools to organize prolific scam and fraud. Underground offers everything necessary to commit a cyber crime, from tools for hacking services and in many cases all is […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 08, 2013
Cybercrime follows money, malware for Bitcoin mining spread via Skype

Recently I wrote an article related the link between the soar of Bicoin value and expected increased interest of cybercrime to the virtual currency. In the post I anticipated the we will assist to the increase of DDoS attacks and data breach against principal Bitcoin exchanges and services providers, I also introduced the possibility to […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 05, 2013
Soaring of Bitcoin value continues to attract cybercrime

Surge in the value of , also increasing crimes related to the currency digital The most attentive readers and those who are interested in the main trends of virtual currency will surely have noticed the soaring of prices of Bitcoin in the last month, an inexorable growth motivated by a time of economic uncertainty on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 29, 2013
vSkymmer botnet, a financial malware appears in the underground

The principal reports proposed by various security firm demonstrate a sustained growth of cyber criminal activities fueled by increased offer of underground. In the underground it is practically possible to acquire/sell any kind of product and services to realize illegal activities. The offer is complete and include programming and hacking services, bulletproof-hosting services, cyber attacks on […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2013
Android Malware Seeds for Sale

One of the leading computer security companies of Russia, Group-IB and its CERT (CERT-GIB), found that Android malware is available for sale by cybercriminals. With explosion of mobile market and increase of Android users, more devices can be infected by malware downloaded through Android Market or Google Play or from 3d party WEB-sites. “Nowadays it is […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2013
Zeus hit five major banks in Japan

Zeus malware is considered the most popular and prolific malicious code for banking, it is one of the privilege agent by cybercrime the use to sell various customized version in the underground to conduct sophisticated frauds. Security community has found it in different occasion and anyway it was a surprice, the malware has evolved in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 14, 2013
Botnets for rent, criminal services sold in the underground market

Internet is becoming a mine for criminals that in easy way are able to access to any kind of resources to arrange a cyber attacks, a cyber espionage campaign or a complex banking fraud. What is very scaring is the simplicity with which it is possible to acquire any kind of criminal services in the underground […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2013
PiceBOT crimeware hit Latin American banking

In the last weeks we discussed on the efficiency of exploit kits, malicious tool kits  that allow to the attackers to exploit a huge quantity of vulnerabilities in victims systems. These products are largely diffused in the underground where is possible to find different tools usable for various purpose, most precious are those kit that […]