Pierluigi Paganini
August 22, 2022
I’m proud to have contributed to the “European Cybersecurity in Context: A Policy-Oriented Comparative Analysis“ Worldwide connectivity has unleashed global digitalisation, creating cross-border social networks for communicating and spreading information. The use of digital identity for democratic procedures is becoming a reality and public services are shifting towards using digital tools to implement simplified procedures. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2019
Cayosin Botnet: a deeper look at this threat supported by the psychological profile of the âyoungsters-wannabe-hackersâ Rolex boasters Money, botnet as service business and coding on the dark side of the life: âAt this point of my life⊠if it doesnât make me money, I donât make time for itâ, is stated in the picture […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 27, 2018
A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground, experts already spotted its malware in the wild. A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground. The Rubella Macro Builder allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 04, 2016
Experts from Fortinet discovered a Russian website called Fake-Game the offers a Phishing-as-a-Service platform to anyone. The Phishing attacks are still one of the most effective methods to grab users’ credentials on the web. Experts from Fortinet have discovered a Russian-language site called ‘Fake-Game’ that offers Phishing-as-a-Service. “During our monitoring, we discovered that this same business model is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 16, 2015
McAfee Labs has analyzed a number of websites and services in the Dark Web used by the criminal communities for the commercialization of stolen data. You know my passion for the Dark Web, I spend a lot of time monitoring activities in the hidden part of the web with a particular interest in illegal activities that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 25, 2014
Security Experts at Sophos explained the efficiency of the business model known as Cybercrime-as-a-Service in the specific case of Vawtrak botnet. The term Cybercrime-as-a-Service refers to the practice in the cybercriminal ecosystem to provide product and services for use by other criminals. In September 2014, a report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the 2014 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 20, 2014
Danchev profiling a service which proposes more than 5M harvested mobile phone numbers has discovered a fraudulent architecture used for illicit purposes. Cybercrime has targeted mobile industry more than ever, the number of attacks is on the rise and the proposal in the underground of tools and services for mobile market is rapidly growing. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 18, 2014
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled hacking for hire services offered in the underground, providing an indication of their prices. In the past we have already analyzed the diffusion in the underground of hacking for hire services, a term coined to define the sale of hacking services made by cyber criminals for a limited period of time. Surfing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 19, 2013
Security expert Dancho Danchev profiled one of the numerous hacking services offered in the underground highlighting new trends in the cybercrime ecosystem. With the term attack-as-a-service model is indicated the practice to outsource all the phases of an attack to specialists instead to rent tools and architecture to conduct personally the illegal activities (Malware-as-a-Service). Danchev […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 08, 2013
Dancho Danchev profiled a new service harvests mobile phone numbers advertised in the underground, the vendor also proposing SMS spamming and phone number verification service. AÂ new service harvests mobile phone numbers advertised in the underground is the demonstration that mobile is becoming a privileged target for cybercrime. Botnets, mobile malware, ransomware, DDoS applications and hacking […]
