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Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2016

Journalists get scammed trying to buy an AK47 in the Dark Web

Producers from the German broadcaster ARD have conducted an interesting experiment to demonstrate how to buy a weapon on the dark web. When journalists write about the black markets hosted on the dark web always describe these places as crucial aggregators where it is possible to buy any kind of illegal product and service. A keyboard, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 21, 2016

A third bank was a victim of cyber heist that involved the SWIFT

The Ecuador Bank Banco Del Austro of Cuenca was hacked by threat actors that once again involved the SWIFT systems to stole $12 Million. A third bank was the victim of a cyber heist, the Ecuador Bank was hacked by threat actors that targeted the SWIFT systems and stole $12 Million. In February hackers have stolen $81 Million from the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016

Watson Is Getting Ready from IBM to Deal with Hackers

IBM has targeted hackers, bringing Watson (its computer brain) in the game, with the help of eight prominent US universities IBM’s computer brain, or else Watson, has been known to multitask, already involved in fighting cancer and cooking and so many other things. Right now, the focus of IBM has been placed towards dealing with […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2016

Skimer malware evolves, it is used to target ATMs

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a new variant of the Skimer malware used to steal money and payment card data from ATMs. Security experts at Kaspersky Lab have spotted a new strain of the malware dubbed ‘Skimer’ (Backdoor.Win32.Skimer). Skimer is an old threat that has been around since 2009, it is used by criminal organizations to […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016

The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

The administrator of Crypto Market launched Silk Road 3.0, the fourth iteration of the popular black market (Silk Road, Silk Road 2.0, Silk Road Reloaded). We all know that Silk Road was one of the greatest black marketplaces in the criminal underground, but many ignore that someone is still running the fourth iteration of the popular […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2016

Redirector.Paco, a Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

According to the experts at Bitdefender an HTTPS hijacking click-fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco infected almost 1 million devices since now. Security experts at Bitdefender spotted a new click fraud botnet dubbed Redirector.Paco that has been around at least since September 2014 and has already infected more than 900,000 devices over the years. Crooks behind the Redirector.Paco aimed to create a clickbot that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. As the gaming industry continues to become a more lucrative market, it has also increasingly become more attractive to cybercriminals. These cyber attackers are employing the same tactics used to hack online banks and retailers. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016

Experts also cracked the CryptXXX ransomware 2.0

Security Experts at Kaspersky have updated their decryption tool to adapt to the second version of CryptXXX ransomware in the RannohDecryptor 1.9.1.0. A couple of hours ago I published an interesting post the summarizes the ransomware activities in the last week, and unfortunately, this kind of malware is becoming even more popular in the criminal underground. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

Week in Ransomware – Week of May 13th, 2016

Just in a week several new ransomware variants, services, and updates have been discovered in-the-wild, disclosed publicly, and thoroughly analyzed. Statistical Summary This week, in a span of just five (5) days (Monday, May 9th, 2016 – Friday, May 13th, 2016), through the collaborative efforts of several organizations and individual analysts around the globe, several […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2016

Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is linked to Sony Pictures hack

Experts at the BAE security firms collected evidence that demonstrates the malware used in the recent cyberheists is linked to 2014 Sony Pictures hack. A second bank was a victim of a malware-based attack, the news was recently confirmed by the SWIFT. The investigation conducted by the security researchers at BAE Systems are making the situation very intriguing because […]

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Journalists get scammed trying to buy an AK47 in the Dark Web

A third bank was a victim of cyber heist that involved the SWIFT

Watson Is Getting Ready from IBM to Deal with Hackers

Skimer malware evolves, it is used to target ATMs

The blackmarket Silk Road 3.0 emerged from the Dark Web

Redirector.Paco, a Million-Machine Clickfraud Botnet

The Lucrative But Vulnerable Gaming Industry is Ripe For Cyberattacks

Experts also cracked the CryptXXX ransomware 2.0

Week in Ransomware – Week of May 13th, 2016

Malware used in the recent banking cyberheists is linked to Sony Pictures hack

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