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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 21, 2021
Department of Justice announced that Swiss hacker Till Kottmann, 21, has been indicted for conspiracy, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft. A group of US hackers recently claimed to have gained access to footage from 150,000 security cameras at banks, jails, schools, healthcare clinics, and prominent organizations. Hackers also posted images captured from the hacked […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 19, 2021
The Russian national who attempted to convince a Tesla employee to plant malware on Tesla systems has pleaded guilty. The U.S. Justice Department announced on Thursday that the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27), who attempted to convince a Tesla employee to install malware on the company’s computers, has pleaded guilty. “A Russian national pleaded guilty in federal court […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 17, 2021
The FBI has issued an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks on education institutions in the US and UK. The FBI has issued Tuesday an alert to warn about an increase in PYSA ransomware attacks against education institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. In March 2020, CERT France cyber-security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2021
The CEO of the encrypted communications firm Sky Global has been indicted in the US on charges of facilitating international drug trafficking The head of the Canada-based company Sky Global that provides encrypted communications, Jean-Francois Eap, has been indicted in the US on charges of facilitating international drug trafficking. The Justice Department indicted Jean-Francois Eap […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2021
An actor claimed to have registered one of the domains of WeLeakInfo, accessed details of 10000+ WeLeakInfo’ s customers, and leaked it. WeLeakInfo.com was a data breach notification service that was allowing its customers to verify if their credentials been compromised in data breaches. The service was claiming a database of over 12 billion records from over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2021
The REvil ransomware operators are using DDoS attacks and voice calls to journalists and victim’s business partners to force victims to pay the ransom. The REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware operators announced that they are using DDoS attacks and voice calls to victim’s business partners and journalists to force the victims into pay the ransom. The announcement shows […]
