Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini November 15, 2019
Two men arrested for stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency with Sim Swapping

On Thursday, US authorities arrested two crooks charging them with stealing $550,000 in cryptocurrency from at least 10 victims using SIM swapping. American law enforcement has declared war to sim swapping scammers and announced the arrest of two individuals for stealing $550,000 in Cryptocurrency. The suspects stole the funds from at least 10 victims using […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2019
Buran ransomware-as-a-service continues to improve

The recently discovered ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) Buran attempts to gain popularity by offering discounted licenses. In May, researchers from McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research Team discovered a new piece of ransomware named ‘Buran.’ Buran is offered as a RaaS model, but unlike other ransomware families such as REVil, GandCrab the authors take 25% of the income earned […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 12, 2019
Experts warn of spike in TCP DDoS reflection attacks targeting Amazon, SoftLayer and telco infrastructure

Researchers from Radware reported that massive TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure in the last month. Researchers from Radware are warning of a wave of TCP SYN-ACK DDoS reflection attacks that in the last 30 days hit Amazon, SoftLayer and telecom infrastructure. “Over the last 30 days, Radware has observed […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 10, 2019
Boardriders and its subsidiarities QuikSilver and Billabong infected with ransomware

Ransomware attacks made the lines again, victims are the leading action sports company Boardriders and its subsidiaries including QuikSilver and Billabong. Systems at the action sports company Boardriders was hit by a ransomware attack, the incident also impacted some of its subsidiaries, including QuikSilver and Billabong. In response to the infection, the company shut down its […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 08, 2019
Italian police shut down darkweb Berlusconi market and arrested admins

Italian law enforcement shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market and arrested three suspected of being its administrators. Italian financial police “Guardia di Finanza” shut down the ‘Berlusconi market’ black market hosted on the Tor network and arrested three administrators. The site was managed by two individuals that go online with nicknames of “VladimirPutin” with […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 07, 2019
Trend Micro rogue employee sold customer data to tech support scammers

A Trend Micro employee was spotted stealing consumer customer information and selling it to tech support scammers. TrendMicro confirmed that it has discovered one employee that was stealing consumer customer information and selling it to tech support scammers. In August 2019, the security firm was informed that some of their customers were receiving tech support […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 04, 2019
Ocala City in Florida lost $742,000 following BEC attack

Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control. Attackers’ emails posed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2019
Tortuga Crisis: Moonwalk, one of the biggest pirate CDNs eliminated dragging other big CDN-providers down

Group-IB has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network) has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company that specializes in preventing cyberattacks, has discovered that the shutdown of Moonwalk CDN (Content Delivery Network), one of the biggest pirate-powered providers of video content to Russian-speaking viewers, has likely led to the closure of HDGO and Kodik CDNs– major […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 24, 2019
Texas man sentenced to 145 months in federal prison for hacking Los Angeles Superior Court

A Texas man found guilty of hacking the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system and used it to send out phishing emails. A Texas man, Oriyomi Sadiq Aloba (33), was found guilty of hacking the Los Angeles Superior Court (LASC) computer system and abusing it to send out roughly 2 million phishing messages. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 19, 2019
Emsisoft released a free decryption tool for the STOP (Djvu) ransomware

Emsisoft firm has released a new free decryption tool the STOP (Djvu) ransomware, in the last months the research team helped victims of many other threats. STOP (Djvu) ransomware has 160 variants that infected more hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide. Experts estimated a total number of 460,000 victims, that makes this threat the most […]