Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2016
Highly targeted ransomware campaign hit Swedish Telia customers

According to a new analysis published by experts at Heimdal Security a new Ransomware campaign targeted millions by spoofing Telco giant Telia. Ransomware continues to represent one of the most insidious and aggressive cyber threats, a new campaign launched by threat actors in the wild is impersonating the telecom giant Telia. According to the experts at the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 27, 2016
A fourth bank hit by SWIFT hackers, are they backed by the DPRK

A fourth Bank in Philippines was a victim of the SWIFT hackers and experts at Symantec confirmed the malware shares code with tools used by the Lazarus group. The list of banks victims of the SWIFT hackers is lengthening, a fourth bank in the Philippines has been a victim of the crew that targeted the SWIFT interbank transfer system. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2016
Cheap DDoS for Hire services discovered on a Freelancer-finding site

Incapsula experts Igal Zeifman and Dan Breslaw unmasked the availability of stresser and booter DDoS services on Fiverr website at very affordable prices. The Freelancer-finding site Fiverr is offering DDoS attacks-as-a-service for just five dollars. The site connects professionals that offer any kind of services to buyers. If you are searching for a developer to hire, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2016
Creators of the Nuclear EK are gaining nearly 100K USD each month

According to security experts at Check Point the creators of the Nuclear EK are gaining nearly 100K USD each month, most victims are in Europe and US. Most people interested working with a cloud business model nowadays, even malware programmers. It is better than just one time selling a security exploit, authors of malware are […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 25, 2016
DMA Locker Ransomware has been significantly improved

Malware authors behind the DMA Locker ransomware have improved the threat is a significant way, now it is ready for a massive distribution. Ransomware represents one of the most worrying cyber threats in the wild, vxers continue to improve their code making hard for victims to defend their systems. Now experts from Malwarebytes researchers are warning […]

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 […]