Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2021
A threat actor has sold almost 900,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards on a cybercrime forum on the dark web. A crook has sold 895,000 gift cards and over 300,000 payment cards, for a total of US$38 million, on a top-tier Russian-language hacking forum on the dark web. The criminal actor was spotted offering […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2021
A joint operation of Europol and the Italian Postal and Communication Police resulted in the arrest of an Italian national who hired a hitman on the dark web. Europol and the Italian Postal and Communication Police (Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni) arrested an Italian national as part of the “Operation Hitman” because he is suspected […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 07, 2021
Crooks increasingly often use legitimate services such as Google Forms and Telegram to obtain user data stolen on phishing websites. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, has found that cybercriminals increasingly often use legitimate services such as Google Forms and Telegram to obtain user data stolen on phishing websites. Alternative ways to obtain data help cybercriminals keep […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 04, 2021
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to receive the complete weekly Security Affairs Newsletter for free, including the international press, subscribe here. Experts found two flaws in Facebook for WordPress Plugin Hackers disrupted live […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2021
The Avaddon ransomware operators updated their malware after security researchers released a public decryptor in February 2021. The Avaddon ransomware family first appeared in the threat landscape in February 2020, and its authors started offering it with a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model in June, 2020. In August 2020, cybersecurity intelligence firm Kela was the first to report that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2021
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) charged a Kansas man, for accessing and tampering with a public water system. The United States Department of Justice charged Wyatt A. Travnichek (22), of Ellsworth County, Kansas, for accessing and tampering with the computer system of the Ellsworth County Rural Water District. Travnichek accessed the computer system of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2021
One of the administrators for the DeepDotWeb dark web portal pleads guilty to receiving kickbacks from the operators of the marketplaces. One of the administrators for the DeepDotWeb dark web portal, Tal Prihar (37), pleads guilty to receiving kickbacks from the operators of the marketplaces for the sale of illegals products. Tal Prihar is a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 01, 2021
Akamai has recently involved in the mitigation of two of the largest known ransom DDoS attacks, one of them peaked at 800Gbps. CDN and cybersecurity firm Akamai warns of a worrying escalation in ransom DDoS attacks since the beginning of the year. The company recently mitigated three of the six biggest volumetric DDoS attacks it […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2021
Experts warn that cybercriminals are targeting Indonesia’s major banks posing as bank representatives or customer support team members on Twitter. Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversary-centric cyber intelligence company, warns of an ongoing fraudulent campaign targeting Indonesia’s largest banks that cybercriminals run on social media with the ultimate goal of stealing bank customers’ money. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 27, 2021
Clop ransomware operators now email victim’s customers and ask them to demand a ransom payment to protect their privacy to force victims into paying the ransom. Clop ransomware operators are switching to a new tactic to force victims into paying the ransom by emailing their customers and asking them to demand a ransom payment to […]
