extortion

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2015
Rex Mundi hackers leaked customers’ data of the Swiss Bank they hacked

The hackers of the Rex Mundi group have released online data stolen from The Banque Cantonale de Geneve that refused to pay 10000 EURO. Last week The Banque Cantonale de Geneve has been hacked by the criminal crew Rex Mundi that has tried to blackmail the financial institution. The group of Rex Mundi hackers threatened to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 09, 2015
Rex Mundi hackers are Blackmailing a Swiss Bank after data breach

The Banque Cantonale de Geneve announced that Rex Mundi hackers had stolen the personal data of thousands of its clients and that it was being blackmailed. The Banque Cantonale de Geneve revealed that a criminal crew has tried to blackmail the financial institution, according a first report on the incident the data breach affected said several thousand […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 01, 2014
Ello Social Network knocked down by a cyber attack

Ello, the new social network which is considered the anti-Facebook, was knocked down on Sunday by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. In these days, many articles reported the born of Ello, a new social network considered as a possible antagonist of the giant Facebook. Ello creator considers it as a “tool for empowerment” […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 27, 2014
European Central Bank victim of an attempt of cyber extortion

Hackers steal user contact information and other data from a database of the European Central Bank website in an attempt of extortion. Financial institutions are under attack, the number of cyber attacks against banking industry is increasing constantly, last malicious campaign discovered in order of time is the Operation Emmental. A few days ago, bad […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 20, 2014
Hosting service Code Spaces goes out of business due a cyber attack

Hosting service Code Spaces goes out of business due to a cyber attack after an attempt of extortion by a gang of cyber criminals. Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform, has been brought down by a serious cyber attack which has caused its out of business, the attackers have deleted the data and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 15, 2014
Svpeng Android ransomware is impossible to repel after the infection

Experts at Kaspersky Lab are following the evolution of Svpeng Android malware, born as banking trojan and evolved in ransomware which hit US customers. The mobile malware Svpeng is evolving and recent versions were adapted to classic extortion scheme targeting Android devices in the US. Svpeng was detected for the first time one year ago […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2014
TROJ_POSHCODER A ransomware uses Windows PowerShell features

Malware analysts at Trendmicro have discovered a new Ransomware malware using feature of Windows PowerShell which targeted English language users. Ransomware is one of the cyber threats that has created major problems last year, with increasing frequency cyber criminals gangs have opted for an extortion scheme to immediately monetize their efforts. Security expert have observed a surge […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2014
Simplocker, the first Android File-Encrypting Ransomware

Security experts at ESET discovered and analyzed the first Android File-Encrypting ransomware dubbed Simplocker with C&C hosted on TOR. Ransomware is  not a prerogative of desktop computers, cyber criminals are targeting also mobile platforms, recently it has been discovered the first mobile trojan able to encrypt victim’s data on Android by ESET security firm. Cyber criminals […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 10, 2014
The Extortion is a common practice in the cyber criminal ecosystem

According principal security firms, extortion, ransom and blackmail are pillars of illicit activities, cyber criminals are adapting them to the cyber context. Extrotion is becoming a worrying inclination in the cyber criminal ecosystem, the number of targeted attacks that request money in change of a suspension of the hostilities and to give back to the victims […]