Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2019
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), announced that the company behind LeakedSource, Defiant Tech Inc., pleads guilty in Canada. Defiant Tech Inc., the company behind the LeakedSource.com website, pleaded guilty in Canada. The LeakedSource website was launched in late 2015, in January 2017 the popular data breach notification website has been raided by feds. It reported some of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
Which is the difference between the Deep Web and Dark Web? Considerations about past, present, and future of the Dark Web. These are intense days for the Dark Web. Operations conducted by law enforcement agencies lad to the arrests of many individuals and the closure of the most popular Black Marketplaces, many of which remained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 16, 2019
A joint effort by international law enforcement agencies from 6 different countries has dismantled the crime gang behind the GozNym banking malware. GozNym banking malware is considered one of the most dangerous threats to the banking industry, experts estimated it allowed to steal nearly $100 million from over 41,000 victims across the globe for years. “An […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 13, 2019
Two hacking groups associated with large-scale crypto mining campaigns, Pacha Group and Rocke Group, wage war to compromise as much as possible cloud-based infrastructure. The first group tracked as Pacha Group has Chinese origins, it was first detected in September 2018 and is known to deliver the Linux.GreedyAntd miner. The Pacha Group’s attack chain starts […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 11, 2019
The U.S. Department of Justice charged nine individuals connected to a hacking crew focused on identity theft and SIM swapping attacks. The U.S. DoJ announced charges against nine individuals, 6 members of a hacking group known as ‘The Community’ and 3 former employees of mobile phone providers. The latter group helped the hackers to steal roughly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2019
A Russian hacking group Fxmsp is offering for sale the access to the networks of at least three antivirus companies in the US and source code of their software. Fxmsp is a high-profile Russian- and English-speaking hacking group focused on breaching high-profile private corporate and government information. The group is offering the accesses to the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Police seized the DeepDotWeb website and arrested its operators for their business in facilitating the access to darkweb marketplaces and vendors. DeepDotWeb was a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. The site was seized and the arrests were made as part of an international operation involving the FBI, Europol, and Federal […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 08, 2019
Hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin from Binance, one of the worldâs largest cryptocurrency exchange The hack of another cryptocurrency exchange made the headlines, hackers steal $41 Million worth of Bitcoin (over 7,000 bitcoins) from Binance. Binance is one of the worldâs largest cryptocurrency exchanges, its founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao confirmed that the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 07, 2019
Early April, experts at Yoroi-Cybaze ZLab spotted a new interesting malware sample, likely active since 2017, that was linked to ATMitch attacks. In the first days of April, our threat monitoring operations spotted a new interesting malware sample possibly active in the wild since 2017. Its initial triage suggests it may be part of an […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 06, 2019
Security experts at Proofpoint warn of the resurfacing of the Retefe banking Trojan that implements new techniques to avoid detection. The Retefe banking Trojan resurfaces in that threat landscape and implements new techniques to avoid detection. The new variant resurfaced in April, it uses the stunnel encrypted tunneling mechanism and abuses a legitimate shareware app. […]
