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Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2016

PayPal accounts abused to distribute the Chthonic Banking Trojan

Experts from Proofpoint discovered that the Banking trojan Chthonic was distributed via ‘legitimate’ PayPal accounts by abusing the “money request” feature. The imagination of cyber criminals is a never-ending pit, according to the security firm Proofpoint, crooks are abusing PayPal to distribute the Chtonic banking trojan. Chtonic is a strain of the most notorious Zeus Trojan, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2016

Scammers exploit recent wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing attacks

Scammers exploit the recent a wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing offensive and steal sensitive data from the unaware users. Crooks always exploits the media attention on tragic events for their illegal activities and trick victims with social engineering techniques. Experts observed scammers in the past exploiting news like the crash of Malaysia Airlines […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016

Deer.io platform facilitates cybercrime and its activities

Security experts at DigitalShadow security firm published a detailed analysis that demonstrates Deer.io platform facilitates cybercrime activities. Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted a deep analysis of the Russian cybercrime website Deer.io. The site aims to facilitate cyber criminal activities allowing even crooks without specific skills to become dangerous crooks. The barriers to entry in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016

Locky Ransomware now relies on JavaScript instead downloaders

A new ransomware campaign relies on a Locky variant that is distributed through JavaScript that includes the binary of the threat itself. Locky is one of the most infamous threats of the ransomware family and according to the experts it is in continuous evolution. The threat has been using JavaScript attachments as a distribution mechanism, but most […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016

After mass shooting in Germany, it is dark web paranoia

Is it so easy to buy a weapon on the Dark Web? Access a dark net, buy a weapon, make a massacre. Is this the crime chain behind recent attacks? After mass shooting recently occurred in Germany the Dark Web monopolized the headlines. According to several German news outlets, the young man has bought the 9mm […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 26, 2016

Hackers are offering for sale O2 customer data on the dark web

O2 customer data that was reportedly first stolen from the gaming site XSplit in November 2013 are now offered for sale on the Dark Web. In the dark web it is possible to find any kind of illegal product and services, from weapons to payment card data, last disconcerting discovery is related to the availability of O2 customer data in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 25, 2016

Munich Gunman purchased the weapon on the Dark Web

David S., the Munich gunman has purchased the weapon on the Dark Web, sincerely I was waiting for this title in the headlines, but … In Germany, it is quite difficult to pay for weapons so how the Munich gunman got a 9mm Glock 17? According to several German news outlets, the young man has bought the 9mm […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2016

Is the Infocube firm tied to the Carbanak cybercrime gang?

The security expert Brian Krebs investigated the links between the Carbanak cybercrime gang and the Infocube security firm. Today I want to share with you the findings of an investigation of the popular cyber security expert Brian Krebs. This time, Krebs investigated the link between a cybercrime gang and a security firm. The security company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016

Feds arrested the KickassTorrents owner and seized the domain names

The federal authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind KickassTorrents (KAT) and seized its domains, blocking its operations. According to the US Justice Department, the feds have arrested Artem Vaulin the alleged mastermind behind the BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT). The KickassTorrents website kat.cr is down worldwide and most of KAT domains (kickasstorrents.com, kickass.to, kat.ph, kastatic.com, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.cr) […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016

The threat of Ransomware

Recently, Reuters reported that the FBI sent an urgent confidential ‘Flash’ message to businesses and organizations to warn them about ransomware. Sponsored Content It is that dangerous. This is a new version of the ransom note, a form of malware that interferes with access to user files and data by encrypting it. Those running the […]

Cybercrime

PayPal accounts abused to distribute the Chthonic Banking Trojan

Scammers exploit recent wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing attacks

Deer.io platform facilitates cybercrime and its activities

Locky Ransomware now relies on JavaScript instead downloaders

After mass shooting in Germany, it is dark web paranoia

Hackers are offering for sale O2 customer data on the dark web

Munich Gunman purchased the weapon on the Dark Web

Is the Infocube firm tied to the Carbanak cybercrime gang?

Feds arrested the KickassTorrents owner and seized the domain names

The threat of Ransomware

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