Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2020
Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020

The Threat Report Portugal: Q2 2020 compiles data collected on the malicious campaigns that occurred from April to Jun, Q2, of 2020. The Portuguese Abuse Open Feed 0xSI_f33d is an open sharing database with the ability to collect indicators from multiple sources, developed and maintained by Segurança-InformĂĄtica. This feed is based on automatic searches and also has a strong contribution […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2020
Threat actor leaked data for U.S. gun exchange site on hacking forum

A threat actor has released the databases of Utah-based gun exchange and hunting sites for free on a cybercrime forum. On August 10th, a hacker has leaked online the databases of Utah-based gun exchange for free on a cybercrime forum. He claims the databases contain 195,000 user records for the utahgunexchange.com, 45,000 records for their video […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 12, 2020
City of Lafayette (Colorado) paid $45,000 ransom after ransowmare attack

The City of Lafayette, Colorado, USA, has been forced to pay $45,000 because they were unable to restore necessary files from backup. On July 27th, the systems at the City of Lafayette, Colorado, were infected with ransomware, the malicious code impacted phone services, email, and online payment reservation systems. The City did not immediately disclose […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 11, 2020
Avaddon ransomware operators have launched their data leak site

Avaddon ransomware operators, like other cybercrime groups, decided to launch a data leak site where publish data of victims who refuse to pay a ransom demand. Avaddon ransomware operators announced the launch of their data leak site where they will publish the data stolen from the victims who do not pay a ransom demand. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2020
Maze Ransomware operators published data from LG and Xerox

Maze ransomware operators published internal data from LG and Xerox after the company did not pay the ransom. Ransomware crews are very active during these months, Maze ransomware operators have published tens of GB of internal data allegedly stolen from IT giants LG and Xerox following failed extortion attempts. Maze ransomware operators published 50.2 GB […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2020
FBI issued a flash alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks

The FBI has issued a security alert about Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. The FBI has issued a new security flash alert to warn of Netwalker ransomware attacks targeting U.S. and foreign government organizations. The feds are recommending victims, not to pay the ransom and reporting incidents to their local FBI field offices. The flash […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Pirate Ship Sailing to Developing World: Group-IB Uncovers Real Captains of Online Piracy Crew

Group-IB’s report uncovers major players and driving forces of a criminal digital piracy syndicate which has been flourishing in the post-Soviet space Group-IB, a global threat hunting and intelligence company headquartered in Singapore, today presented its report “Jolly Roger’s patrons. Group-IB exposes financial crime network of online pirates in developing countries.“ The document uncovers major players […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2020
Nefilim ransomware operators leaked data alleged stolen from the Dussmann group

Cyble researchers reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble reported that Nefilim ransomware operators allegedly targeted the Dussmann group, the German largest private multi-service provider. The Dussmann Group has over 64,500 employees in 22 countries, it is one of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 11, 2020
Yevgeniy Nikulin, Russian hacker behind Dropbox and LinkedIn hacks found guilty

The Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin found guilty for LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring data breach back in 2012 and the sale of their users’ data. A jury found Russian hacker Yevgeniy Nikulin guilty for the hack of LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Formspring back in 2012 and for the sale of the stolen data on cybercrime black marketplaces. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 06, 2020
Former Yahoo! employee who accessed 6K accounts avoids jail

A former Yahoo! employee who hacked into the accounts of thousands of users was sentenced to five years of probation. In September the former Yahoo software engineer Reyes Daniel Ruiz has admitted in court to hacking into 6,000 Yahoo! accounts back in 2018. Last week Ruis (35), of Tracy, California, was sentenced to five years of probation […]