Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2017
The Fireball malware already infected more than 250 million computers worldwide running both Windows and Mac OS

Check Point have discovered a massive malware campaign spreading the Fireball malware, it has already infected more than 250 million computers worldwide Security researchers at Check Point have discovered a massive malware campaign spreading the Fireball malware. The malicious code has already infected more than 250 million computers worldwide running both Windows and Mac OS. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 01, 2017
Dark Web users of a child porn website tracked after visiting file sharing site

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has identified dark web users after they downloaded media through a file sharing services. The DHS obtained the IP addresses of several suspects that visited a child porn site hosted in the Tor network. According to court filings, the suspects shared links to password-protected child pornography media on the  Ziifile […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2017
The economic impact of cybercrime will reach $8 Trillion by 2022

According to a report published by Juniper Research, the economic impact of cybercrime is expected to reach $8 trillion price tag over the next five years. According to a report published by Juniper Research, the number of data records that will be compromised in security breaches in 2017 will reach 2.8 billion. The economic impact of […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2017
You can take Shadow Brokers Zero Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 per month

Shadow Brokers is going to launch a monthly subscription model for its data dumps, 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions goes for $21,000 per month. A couple of weeks ago, while security experts were debating about WannaCry ransomware and the NSA exploits it used, the Shadow Brokers group revealed its plan to sell off new exploits every month starting from June. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2017
Flashpoint experts believe WannaCry authors speak Chinese after a linguistic analysis

Security experts at threat intelligence firm Flashpoint conducted a linguistic analysis of dozens of ransom notes displayed by the WannaCry ransomware. Malware researchers at threat intelligence firm Flashpoint conducted a linguistic analysis of 28 ransom notes displayed by the WannaCry ransomware. Flashpoint analyzed 28 WannaCry ransom notes written in various language including Chinese (both simplified and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2017
Master Keys for Crysis ransomware released on a forum

Researchers at ESET security firm have discovered that someone has released 200 master keys for the latest variants of the prominent Crysis ransomware. While security experts continue to investigate the WannaCry attack, someone has released 200 master keys for the latest variants of the prominent Crysis ransomware. The file encrypted by this version have the .wallet and […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 24, 2017
Police dismantled the Cron gang that targeted Bank Accounts via Android Malware

Russian authorities with the support of the security firm Group-IB dismantled the operations of the Cron gang that infected more than 1 million smartphones. Russian authorities dismantled a major criminal ring that was targeting bank accounts by using an Android malware, dubbed ‘Cron,’ that compromised more than one million Android smartphones. According to the Russian Interior […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2017
Expert founds EternalRocks, a malware that uses 7 NSA Hacking Tools

A security expert discovered a new worm, dubbed EternalRocks, that exploits the EternalBlue flaw to spread itself like WannaCry ransomware. The security expert Miroslav Stampar, a member of the Croatian Government CERT, has discovered a new worm, dubbed EternalRocks, that exploits the EternalBlue flaw in the SMB protocol to spread itself like the popular WannaCry ransomware. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2017
At least 3 different groups have been leveraging the NSA EternalBlue exploit, what’s went wrong?

At least 3 different groups have been leveraging the NSA EternalBlue exploit weeks before the WannaCry attacks, here’s the evidence. In the last days, security experts discovered numerous attacks that have been leveraging the same EternalBlue exploit used by the notorious WannaCry ransomware. The Shadow Brokers hacker group revealed the exploit for the SMB vulnerability in April, but […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2017
Experts discovered that the Terror Exploit Kit now includes fingerprinting capabilities

Experts from Talos Team discovered changes made to the Terror exploit kit (EK) that allow it to fingerprint victims and target specific vulnerabilities. Recent changes made to the Terror exploit kit (EK) allow it to fingerprint victims and target specific vulnerabilities instead of carpet bombing the victims with many exploits at the same time, Talos […]