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Pierluigi Paganini June 19, 2015

Cybercrime is paying with 1,425% return on investment

Trustwave firm published a report related to 2014 incidents that revealed cyber criminal activities are paying with 1,425% return on investment. Hackers are seeing a whopping 1,425% return on investment for these two kinds of attacks Security experts at Trustwave published an interesting report on the return on investment related to illegal activities online. The experts revealed that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2015

Tox ransomware platform builder is now available for sale

The owner of the Tox ransomware builder is offering for sale the platform worried by its popularity. He confirmed that he will pay ransoms to his customers. The owner of the famous Tox ransomware has decided that it was time to sell the platform, this after all popularity reached by its platform. The Tox platform […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2015

CryptoWall 3.0 Still Actively Being Spread as a New Campaign is Discovered in-the-wild

A new malicious phishing campaign is spreading CryptoWall ransomware in the wild, the expert Michael Fratello has analyzed it for us. Just a reminder to all — CryptoWall 3.0 is still very much active, with phish tactics that I think are less effective, but who knows; maybe they’re seeing great success with this method. Personally, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2015

Locker Ransomware Author Allegedly Releases Database Dump of Private Keys

Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts to the public. Allegedly, the author of the “Locker” ransomware has uploaded a dump of the C2 server database, releasing private keys of infected hosts worldwide to the public. The “author” claims that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2015

Locker Ransomware Utilizes a Unique Delivery Mechanism

The cyber security expert Michael Fratello has made a detailed analysis of the locker ransomware that implements a unique delivery mechanism On May 25th, 2015, a wave of reports came flooding in from users around the globe, claiming that their computers have become compromised. Messages from users looking for help began appearing on forums such […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 26, 2015

Tox, how to create your ransomware in 3 steps

McAfee discovered in the Deep Web a ransomware-construction kits that allow easy to build malware in just 3 steps, implementing an interesting model of sale. In the criminal underground it is easy to find malware-construction kits that allow easy to build malicious code from existing templates and in same cases starting from legitimate applications. A […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 22, 2015

Criminals are using SVG Files to serve malware

Security experts at AppRiver firm have discovered a malicious campaign that is distributing a strain of ransomware via SVG files. Researchers at the AppRiver security firm have uncovered a malicious campaign that is distributing a strain of ransomware by exploiting SVG files. The SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 07, 2015

New AlphaCrypt ransomware, the new threat in the criminal underground

AlphaCrypt ransomware is a new type of ransomware has been detected by security expert in the wild. The malware is delivered via Angler Exploit kit. Ransomware is among most popular malware families in the criminal underground, recently security firms have discovered numerous variant targeting desktop and mobile platforms. Recently a new strain of ransomware dubbed […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2015

Canadian users infected by a Mobile ransomware by visiting adult content websites

Canadian mobile users were targeted by the latest variant of the Koler Android mobile ransomware after visiting websites proposing adult content. Once again, visitors of websites proposing adult content are targeted by cyber criminals. Last week a malvertising campaign hit visitors of the adult website XHamster, now Canadian Internet users victims were targeted by a […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 24, 2015

Ransomware creators are laundering their Bitcoin rapidly since the currency value is dropping

The drop in the value of the Bitcoin is pushing cyber criminals to rapidly cash-out their ears with ransomware in order to monetize their efforts. The business made by exploiting Ransomware has seen better days, all because the value of Bitcoin is dropping, that means, to avoid losing more money crooks are laundering money. “They( criminals) […]

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Cybercrime is paying with 1,425% return on investment

Tox ransomware platform builder is now available for sale

CryptoWall 3.0 Still Actively Being Spread as a New Campaign is Discovered in-the-wild

Locker Ransomware Author Allegedly Releases Database Dump of Private Keys

Locker Ransomware Utilizes a Unique Delivery Mechanism

Tox, how to create your ransomware in 3 steps

Criminals are using SVG Files to serve malware

New AlphaCrypt ransomware, the new threat in the criminal underground

Canadian users infected by a Mobile ransomware by visiting adult content websites

Ransomware creators are laundering their Bitcoin rapidly since the currency value is dropping

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