Pierluigi Paganini
May 20, 2013
âSecuring Cyberspace in a borderless world: Vision 2015 and Beyondâ is the title of a High Level Dialogue that was held during The World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) 2013. The World Summit on the Information Society Forum (WSIS) represents the worldâs largest annual gathering of the ICT for development community, the event is organized […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 17, 2013
Group-IB researchers have detected a new botnet named Kangoo that infected more than 150 000 machines mainly targeting Australian banks. Group-IB researchers have detected a new botnet named Kangoo that infected more than 150 000 machines, specialists dubbed it «Kangoo» due the presence of  a kangaroo logo on the WEB-interface of the C&C administrative panel. The botnet mainly […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2013
Security firm Group-IB has detected a new variant of malware that targets the popular Russian stock-trading platform QUIK (Quik Broker, Quik Dealer) provided by Russian software developers ARQA Technologies. The malware has been used during various attacks staring in last November (2012) with the purpose to gather detailed information on the respective owners of the accounts. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 29, 2013
The principal reports proposed by various security firm demonstrate a sustained growth of cyber criminal activities fueled by increased offer of underground. In the underground it is practically possible to acquire/sell any kind of product and services to realize illegal activities. The offer is complete and include programming and hacking services, bulletproof-hosting services, cyber attacks on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2013
New age of POS malware â cash points are in the hackers’ interest, major US banks are compromised. UPDATE January 17th, 2014 I desire to reveal the identity of the person that has conducted the analysis on the BlackPos agent, giving me a significant support for the realization of the post. Andrey Komarov, IntelCrawler’s CEO, has arranged […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 15, 2013
One of the leading computer security companies of Russia, Group-IB and its CERT (CERT-GIB), found that Android malware is available for sale by cybercriminals. With explosion of mobile market and increase of Android users, more devices can be infected by malware downloaded through Android Market or Google Play or from 3d party WEB-sites. âNowadays it is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 11, 2013
Recently many security portals, including Security Affairs, have presented analysis on underground markets and the increased demand of malware and exploit tools. In this post I desire to propose to readers the results of investigation made by researchers at Group-IB, a security firm resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation. Mobile malware black market is not well […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2012
During the last week introduced you the excellent work done by the Group-IB, a security firm resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system named the CyberCop. It was for me the opportunity to receive many interesting […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 03, 2012
This time I desire to speak about an interesting initiative of Group-IB company, a resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation, that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system. The funds is co-financed by the Skolkovo Foundation which has provided 21m rubles ($676,000), […]
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