Pierluigi Paganini
August 26, 2020
FBI authorities arrested a Russian national in the U.S. after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a malware. US authorities arrested the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27) after attempting to recruit an employee at a targeted company to plant a piece of malware. The man was arrested on August […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 25, 2020
Maze ransomware operators published credit card details stolen from the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) threatening to leak other lots every week. Maze ransomware operators have released credit card data stolen from the Bank of Costa Rica (BCR) threatening to leak other lots every week. Early May, Maze Ransomware operators claimed to have hacked the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 19, 2019
The victims of the Maze Ransomware now face another threat because operators behind the malware could publish their data online. The victims of the Maze Ransomware are facing another risk, after having their data encrypted now crooks are threatening to publish their data online. The Maze ransomware also implements data harvesting capabilities, operators are threatening […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 16, 2019
Security experts have discovered that hackers have stolen 700,000 records from Choice Hotels franchise and are demanding payment for their return. Experts at Comparitech with the help of the popular researcher Bob Diachenko discovered an unsecured database containing 700,000 records from the hotel franchise Chain Hotel. The experts discovered the unsecured MongoDB archive containing 5.6 million records […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2019
Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns. According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers. The analysis of posts on Dark Web […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 05, 2018
Cybaze ZLab spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers, crooks leverage credentials in Breach Compilation archive. Security experts from Cybaze ZLab have spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers. Crooks attempted to monetize the availability of a huge quantity of credentials available in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 23, 2018
Computer systems in the City of Atlanta were infected by ransomware, the cyber attack was confirmed by the City officials. The city learned of the attack at around 5:40 am local time on Thursday. On Thursday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on Thursday that a malware has taken in hostage some internal systems, city’s data were encrypted. Mayor @KeishaBottoms holds […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 08, 2018
Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantled a DDoS crime gang that blackmailed numerous companies worldwide. Another example of successful collaboration between law enforcement agencies and security firms in the fight against cybercrime, the case sees Ukrainian Police supported by security firm Group-IB and other security firms dismantling a DDoS […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 04, 2018
Crooks already started to blackmail companies asking for a ransom demand in Monero cryptocurrency to avoid being attacked via Memcached servers. Last week, the Github service was hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs by abusing the memcached protocol to power so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Researchers believe that threat actors in the wild will abuse misconfigured […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 04, 2017
A hacker is attempting to extort the Canadian University of Fraser Valley (UFV), threatening to dump student information unless the university pays a ransom. Extortion is a winning criminal model for crooks, a hacker is attempting to extort the Canadian University of Fraser Valley (UFV), threatening to dump student information unless the university pay 30,000 […]
