Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini August 07, 2016
Car thefts – Two men used a pirated software running on a Laptop to steal more than 100 cars

Huston police identified and arrested 2 men while it was investigating a series of car thefts made using a pirated software running on the thieves’ laptop Two men have stolen more than 100 vehicles by using a laptop running a common software that’s used by technicians and auto dealers. The two criminals, Michael Arce, 24, and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 06, 2016
Kasidet PoS malware bypasses Account Control posing as Microsoft App

Experts from Dr Web discovered a new PoS malware dubbed Kasidet that can bypass User Account Control (UAC) by posing as a legitimate Microsoft application. A new strain of PoS malware is in the wild, experts from security firm Doctor Web  named it Trojan.Kasidet.1 and it is able to bypass defense mechanism such as the Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 05, 2016
How to withdraw up to $50,000 in cash from an ATM by using data stolen from EMV cards

Researchers have demonstrated how crooks can make ATMs spit out thousands of dollars in cash in just a few minutes by using data stolen from EMV cards. When the EMV (Europay, MasterCard, and Visa) was introduced, the vast majority of security experts believed solved the problems caused by easy to clone magnetic stripe cards. EMV chip-equipped […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2016
A Nigerian man behind the $60m online fraud network arrested by the Interpol

Interpol arrested the Nigerian mastermind of an online fraud network. He will face charges of hacking, conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences. The Interpol announced the arrest of a 40-year-old Nigerian national that the mastermind behind an online fraud network which made illegal profits worth more than $60 million (54 million euros). The  Nigerian […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 02, 2016
Peace is advertising 200 Million alleged Yahoo accounts on Dark Web

The notorious hacker Peace is advertising 200 Million alleged Yahoo accounts on Dark Web, and the company is aware of the sale. Do you remember the notorious hacker Peace? He is the hacker that offered for sale the dumps of LinkedIn and MySpace, and now he has once again a surprise for the security experts. Peace is advertising […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 01, 2016
PayPal accounts abused to distribute the Chthonic Banking Trojan

Experts from Proofpoint discovered that the Banking trojan Chthonic was distributed via ‘legitimate’ PayPal accounts by abusing the “money request” feature. The imagination of cyber criminals is a never-ending pit, according to the security firm Proofpoint, crooks are abusing PayPal to distribute the Chtonic banking trojan. Chtonic is a strain of the most notorious Zeus Trojan, the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 29, 2016
Scammers exploit recent wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing attacks

Scammers exploit the recent a wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing offensive and steal sensitive data from the unaware users. Crooks always exploits the media attention on tragic events for their illegal activities and trick victims with social engineering techniques. Experts observed scammers in the past exploiting news like the crash of Malaysia Airlines […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016
Deer.io platform facilitates cybercrime and its activities

Security experts at DigitalShadow security firm published a detailed analysis that demonstrates Deer.io platform facilitates cybercrime activities. Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted a deep analysis of the Russian cybercrime website Deer.io. The site aims to facilitate cyber criminal activities allowing even crooks without specific skills to become dangerous crooks. The barriers to entry in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016
Locky Ransomware now relies on JavaScript instead downloaders 

A new ransomware campaign relies on a Locky variant that is distributed through JavaScript that includes the binary of the threat itself. Locky is one of the most infamous threats of the ransomware family and according to the experts it is in continuous evolution. The threat has been using JavaScript attachments as a distribution mechanism, but most […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 28, 2016
After mass shooting in Germany, it is dark web paranoia

Is it so easy to buy a weapon on the Dark Web? Access a dark net, buy a weapon, make a massacre. Is this the crime chain behind recent attacks? After mass shooting recently occurred in Germany the Dark Web monopolized the headlines. According to several German news outlets, the young man has bought the 9mm […]