Pierluigi Paganini
April 09, 2018
Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform Sodexo Filmology. Sodexo food services and facilities management company notified a number of customers that it was the victim of a targeted attack on its cinema vouchers platform, Filmology […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2018
A new strain of ATM jackpotting malware dubbed ATMJackpot has been discovered by experts at Netskope Threat Research Labs. The malware is still under development and appears to have originated in Hong Kong, it has a smaller system footprint compared with similar threats. “Netskope Threat Research Labs has discovered a new ATM malware, “ATMJackpot.” The malware […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 08, 2018
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! · Airbnb China will share hosts information with the government · Any social media […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 02, 2018
Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android miner dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that can brick infected devices Crooks are looking with increasing interest cryptocurrency mining malware developed for mobile devices. Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered a new strain of Android malware dubbed ANDROIDOS HIDDENMINER that abuse device CPU to mine Monero cryptocurrency. HiddenMiner […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 31, 2018
Last week, the Czech Republic announced it had extradited the Russian hacker Yevgeni Nikulin (29) to the United States. Yevgeni Nikulin was requested by the US for alleged cyber attacks on social networks and by the Russian authorities that charged him with frauds. According to US authorities, the man targeted LinkedIn and Formspring and hacked into the file hosting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 30, 2018
An international operation conducted by the Romanian National Police and the Italian National Police, with support from Europol, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT), and Eurojust. led to the arrest of 20 individuals involved in a banking spear phishing scam. According to the investigators, the banking phishing scam allowed crooks to defrauded bank customers of €1 million […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2018
A recently discovered Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit has been used to spread a variety of malware, including RATs and banking Trojans. Security experts at Proofpoint recently discovered a Microsoft Office document exploit builder kit dubbed ThreadKit that has been used to spread a variety of malware, including banking Trojans and RATs (i.e. Trickbot, Chthonic, FormBook and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
Recently Reddit decided to ban the biggest darknet subreddit, /r/darknetmarkets, used by crime communities to discuss producta and services in the most popular darknet markets. Darknet markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime underground, they are excellent places of aggregation for the demand and the offer of illegal products and services. Communities around principal Darknet markets […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 25, 2018
According to the lawsuit filed by San Diego city attorney Mara Elliott the Experian credit agency never notified the 2013 security breach to the affected consumers as required under California law. The City of San Diego, California is suing the Experian credit agency for the security breach that the company suffered in 2013. “San Diego City Attorney Mara Elliott has filed […]
