Pierluigi Paganini
July 12, 2019
A new variant of the implements a unique protocol to communicate with Command and Control infrastructure A new variant of the Miori botnet uses a unique protocol to communicate with C&C infrastructure, it implements a protection mechanism to access the login panel. The Miori bot borrows the code from the dreaded Mirai malware. it first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 28, 2017
An joint operation conducted by Europol and other law enforcement agencies resulted in the seizure of more than 20,520 domains for selling counterfeit products. The operation, dubbed “In Our Sites (Project TransAtlantic VIII),” allowed to seize domains that were offering for sale any kind of counterfeit product, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 27, 2017
The Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users a security breach, hackers compromised its point of sale terminals to steal payment card data. The Mexican Grill Fast-food chain Chipotle notified users a data breach, hackers infected its point of sale terminals to steal payment card data. The malicious code infected systems in 47 states and Washington earlier […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 16, 2017
Trend Micro has discovered a new PoS malware, tracked as MajikPOS, that is targeting business in North America and Canada. Security experts at Trend Micro have discovered a new PoS malware, tracked as MajikPOS, that is targeting business in North America. The experts explained that the MajikPOS has the same capabilities of any other PoS malware, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 07, 2016
The FBI has issued a warning that individuals should be on their guard against extortion email scam linked to recent high-profile data breaches. The FBI states that its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has identified this new variety of extortion through the increased instance of reports to the Centre from individuals who have fallen victim […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 01, 2015
Operation In Our sites VI (IOS) – Law enforcement from 27 nations collaborated to take down 37,479 counterfeit sites on biggest web takedown ever. Nearly one thousand websites have been seized by law enforcement agencies following the international operation In Our Sites (IOS) VI. The websites were offering for sale counterfeit merchandise online to consumers. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 17, 2015
Bloomberg states that the ongoing investigation conducted by US authorities was probing allegations that there is a Russian gang behind the Dow Jones hack. Dow Jones has provided further information on the data breach that the company has recently suffered. A week ago, the CEO of Dow Jones & Co disclosed the incident confirming that 3,500 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 21, 2015
The US-based web hosting company Web.com has been Hacked, it admitted that credit card information of 93,000 customers have been compromised. Web.com is the last victim of a data breach, the US-based web hosting company has up to 3.3 Million customers. According the first news circulating in the Internet the hackers may have compromised personal information and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 14, 2015
US authorities have identified and arrested members of an international ring of hackers and stock traders specialized in the theft of trading info. The Department of Justice charged a group of nine hackers and stock traders in a criminal conspiracy with making more than $30 million in illegal trades based on exfiltrated data. At the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 11, 2015
Experts at Trustev discovered on the Nucleus black market lifetime subscriptions to popular streaming services and fake NYPD badges. In the last months, we have assisted numerous operations run by law enforcement against illegal activities in the dark web, in particular against the numerous black markets that sell any kind of product and services. Everyone could […]
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