Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2016
w-2-phishing – Scammers tricked an employee at data storage firm Seagate Technology into giving away W-2 tax documents on all current and past employees. According to a new sensation case revealed by the popular security expert Brian Krebs, cyber criminals last week tricked an employee at data storage company Seagate Technology into giving away W-2 tax documents on all current and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2016
Over the weekend Apple customers who were looking for the latest version of Transmission were infected by KeRanger MAC OS X ransomware. Bad news for Apple customers, their systems were targeted for the first time over the weekend by a ransomware campaign. The experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 who discovered the malicious campaign reported that Apple […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2016
TrendMicro published an interesting analysis of the principal cyber criminal underground communities in the Deep Web worldwide. A new interesting report published by the experts at TrendMicro highlights the differences between the principal underground ecosystems worldwide. Thinking of a unique “global” underground ecosystem is an error, every community has its own characteristics, the criminal crews that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 06, 2016
The Romania’s High Court of Cassation and Justice ruled that the popular Romanian hacker Guccifer will be extradited to the United States. Marcel Lazar Lehel it the real name of the name of the notorious hacker Guccifer who breached the online accounts of several public figures between December 2012 and January 2014. The popular hacker […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2016
Two major high street banks will change security procedures after journalists demonstrated how to carry out SIM swap fraud attacks. The BBC reported that two major high street banks will adopt new security measures to protect their customers. The decision to modify the security procedures follows the scoop made by two journalists from BBC Radio […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2016
According to a study conducted by the experts at Arbor’s ASERT Team a day attack with a DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage. We have discussed several times about the concept of cybercrime-as-a-service, today I’ll show you a case related the offer for rent of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for less than US$60 per day. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 01, 2016
A coordinated operation of law enforcement agencies in 7 countries raided operators of darknets trading in illegal products and services. A joint effort of law enforcement agencies in seven European countries (Germany, Bosnia, Switzerland, France, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Russia) allowed authorities to identify and arrest operators of darknet online platforms trading in illegal products […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2016
The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new strain of CTB-Locker for Websites, a new ransomware that mainly targets WordPress sites. Ransomware continues to threaten users worldwide, today we discussed German Hospitals paralyzed by the malware. TeslaCrypt, Cryptowall and Locky are the names of the most popular ransomware that already infected millions machines worldwide. The experts at BleepingComputer reported a new […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2016
Operators running websites based on the WordPress and Joomla must be aware of a spike in the number of compromised platforms used in Admedia attacks. Not only WordPress CMS, threat actors behind the “Admedia attacks” are now looking with increasing interest to Joomla. This is the discovery made by the experts at the Internet Storm […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2016
The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday, intruders were able to compromise it and serve malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The Linux Mint website had been hacked, on Saturday 20th, February, intruders were able to compromise the website serving malicious ISO of Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition. The disconcerting announcement was made […]
