Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
The Evolution Black Market, the most popular an online black marketplace appears to have vanished, it seems that admins of the website exit scamming. The security community is paying attention to the evolution of dark markets following the operation Onymous conducted by law enforcement in November. Law enforcement in a joint effort against cybercrime seized dozens of black […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 18, 2015
US health insurer Premera Blue Cross announced its network had been hacked, potentially exposing data from 11 million individuals. A few weeks after the disclosure of the data breach suffered by from Anthem Blue Cross, which exposed 80 million customer records, another US health insurer was victim of a major attack that is affecting 11 Million customers […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2015
TeslaCrypt is a new strain of ransomware, spotted in the wild by experts at Emsisoft, which is also targeting users of principal gaming platforms. A new strain of ransomware dubber TeslaCrypt was spotted in the wild by the researchers at the security firm Emsisoft. TeslaCrypt was discovered at the end of February, researchers at Bromium that analyzed the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 13, 2015
Obama Administration proposes giving courts more power to issue botnet injunctions, a measure necessary to fight the diffusion of malicious infrastructures. The US Government has proposed an amendment that would enable the Department of Justice to seek an injunction to prevent the diffusion of botnets. The Obama’s Administration would add activities like the operation of a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 10, 2015
Experts at Bitdefender revealed that crooks used seemingly harmless help files to distribute a variant of the popular ransomware CryptoWall. The cybercrime never ceases to surprise, every time we discuss a new and effective technique to deceive victims and evade detection mechanisms. Security experts at Bitdefender have discovered a new spam campaign that targeted a few […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2015
Experts at Trustwave have discovered a spam campaign composed of several hundred messages trying to serve Dridex trojan though xml documents. Early 2015 security experts discovered a variant of banking malware dubbed Dridex that was spread through a phishing campaign using Microsoft Excel documents embedding malicious macro to infect victims’ machines. The Dridex malware implements features […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2015
British NCA has arrested a 23-year-old man suspected to be a member of the hacking crew that run the attack on the US Department of Defense in the 2014. British law enforcement has identified and arrested a 23-year-old man over a hacking attack on the US Department of Defense on June 15, 2014. The law […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2015
The annual study published by Javelin Strategy & Research on identity fraud estimates that U.S. consumers actually suffered fewer losses than in the past. Last year we observed a significant number of data breaches that cause the exposure of a huge quantity of information in the criminal ecosystem. According to the 2015 Identity Fraud Study (“2015 IDENTITY FRAUD: […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 05, 2015
Symantec revealed observed a significant drop in the number of Financial Trojans in 2014, a report includes a detailed analysis of the phenomena. Symantec has analyzed the evolution of Financial Trojans in 2014 highlighting a significant drop in the number of detection of malicious agents. Symantec analyzed nine common financial Trojans during 2014, the sample analyzed targeted […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2015
Experts at Cisco discovered a new technique dubbed Domain Shadowing consisting in the creation of thousand subdomains used to spread the Angler exploit kit Cyber criminals have used hundreds of legitimate domain name accounts registered through GoDaddy to run a malicious campaign using the popular Angler exploit kit. Crooks hacked domain name accounts in order […]
