Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Four malicious Chrome extensions affected over half a million users and global businesses

Four malicious Chrome extensions may have impacted more than half million users likely to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. More than half million users may have been infected by four malicious Chrome extensions that were likely used to conduct click fraud or black search engine optimization. According to ICEBRG, the malicious extensions […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2018
Canadian man charged over leak of billions hacked accounts through LeakedSource

A Canadian Man supposed to be the admin of the LeakedSource.com website was charged over the leak of 3 billion hacked accounts. The Canadian man Jordan Evan Bloom (27) was charged with data leak of 3 billion hacked accounts, the man was running a website to collect personal data and login credentials from the victims. The man […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 15, 2018
Blackwallet hacked, hackers stole $400,000 from users’ accounts through DNS hijacking

BlackWallet.co was victims of a DNS hijacking attack, on January 13 the attackers have stolen over $400,000 from users’ accounts (roughly 670,000 Lumens). The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the BlackWallet.co a web-based wallet application for the Stellar Lumen cryptocurrency (XLM). The platform was victims of a DNS hijacking attack, on January […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 01, 2018
Forever 21 confirms Payment Card Breach and provides further info on the incident

FOREVER 21 confirmed the presence of a malware at some point of sale (POS) systems in stores across the US. On November 2017, the US clothes retailer FOREVER 21 announced it has suffered a security breach, the company now confirmed that hackers stole payment card data from its locations throughout the country for several months during 2017. Even if […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 30, 2017
It’s a mystery, member of the Lurk gang admits creation of WannaCry ransomware for intelligence agencies

A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Info Stealing – The cyber security expert Marco Ramilli spotted a new operation in the wild

The Italia cyber security expert Marco Ramilli, founder of Yoroi, published an interesting analysis of a quite new InfoStealer Malware delivered by eMail to many International Companies. Attack attribution is always a very hard work. False Flags, Code Reuse and Spaghetti Code  makes impossible to assert “This attack belongs to X”. Indeed nowadays makes more sense talking about Attribution […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 29, 2017
Two Romanians charged with infecting US Capital Police cameras with ransomware early this year

Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into US Capital Police cameras ahead of the inauguration of President Trump. Two Romanian people have been arrested and charged with hacking into control systems of the surveillance cameras for the Metropolitan Police Department in the US. The two suspects, Mihai Alexandru Isvanca, 25, and Eveline […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 27, 2017
The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta suffered a DNS attack

The popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta was hacked, attackers conducted a DNS attack that allowed to steal at least 308 ETH ($266,789) as well as a large number of tokens. The spike in cryptocurrency values is attracting cybercriminals, the last victim is the popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta that announced a potential attack against its DNS server. As result […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2017
The spike in Bitcoin price is making it a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground

The recent spike in the Bitcoin price and the fees associated with each transaction are making Bitcoin a less useful payment method in the cybercrime underground. We have a long debated the use of unregulated virtual currencies like Bitcoin in the criminal underground. Virtual currencies have a crucial role in facilitating illicit commerce, it is normal that […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 26, 2017
Three fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed from the official Google Play

Researchers from the mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store, Google promptly removed them. Experts from mobile security firm Lookout have discovered three fake Bitcoin wallet apps in the official Play store. The fake Bitcoin wallet apps were removed by Google Play after security researchers reported their discovery […]