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Pierluigi Paganini April 15, 2020
How much is the phish? Underground market of phishing kits is booming – Group-IB

The report focuses on phishing kits – the driving force of the phishing industry, which is hard to detect but extremely valuable in terms of fight against phishing. Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, has found out that phishing kits are the new bestsellers of the underground market, with the number of phishing kit ads on underground forums and their […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2018
Red Alert 2.0 Android Trojan available for rent in the underground at $500 per Month

According to researchers at Trustwave, the source code of the Red Alert 2.0 Android Trojan is now available for rent on cybercrime underground forums at $500 per month. The experts discovered the latest variant because received a malicious apk via mail and analyzed it. “It all started with a spam message, which curiously had an Android App attachment. […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 15, 2018
Qrypter RAT hits 243 organizations worldwide in February

Qrypter RAT hits 243 organizations worldwide in February 2018, its popularity in the cybercrime ecosystem continues to increase. A new strain of remote access Trojan dubbed Qrypter RAT (aka Qarallax, Quaverse, QRAT, and Qontroller) hit hundreds of organizations worldwide. The malware was spotted by security firm Forcepoint, it has been around for a couple of years, […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 25, 2018
Counterfeit Code-Signing certificates even more popular, but still too expensive

Code-signing certificates are precious commodities in the criminal underground, they are used by vxers to sign malware code to evade detection. Other precious commodities in the criminal underground are code-signing certificates, they allow vxers to sign the code for malware to evade detection. Operators of the major black markets in the darknets buy and sell code-signing certificates, but according to […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2018
Health South East RHF data breach exposed health records for half of Norway’s Population

On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region disclosed a major security breach. On January 8, the Health South East RHF, that is the healthcare organization that manages hospitals in Norway’s southeast region (countries of Østfold, Akershus, Oslo, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Vestfold, Telemark, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2017
DDoS Tools availability Online, a worrisome trend

Experts warn of an increased availability of DDoS tools online, many wannabe hackers download and use them without awareness on consequences. As cyber crime reaches new levels with new malware & viruses being realized online on a daily basis it also becomes apparent that the increase in DDoS tools that require no apparent skills to […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2016
Peace_of_Mind hacked the hacking forum w0rm_ws and doxed its alleged owner

The notorious hacker Peace_of_Mind has hacked and defaced the official hacking and trading forum w0rm.ws and doxed its alleged owners. ‘Peace_of_Mind‘ (PoM) is a very active actor in The Real Deal Market and The Hell black markets, he offered for sale the dumps from clamorous data breaches, including Yahoo, LinkedIn and MySpace The w0rm.ws a famous hacking platform, it is an ‘invite only’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 18, 2016
Data breaches in the healthcare sector are fueling the dark web

Data breaches in the healthcare sector are fueling the dark web, millions of people’s medical records are offered for sale in the dark side of the internet. In the past several years, security pundits have been predicting that the healthcare sector was going to be the hotbed of cyber threat activity.  These predictions go back […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 16, 2016
The popular crime forum Nulled.io pwned by hackers

The popular crime forum Nulled.io has suffered a serious security breach that exposed personal details of more than 500K users and their activities. Nulled.io is a popular crime forum with roughly 500,000 users that but and sell any kind of product and services and share information regarding illegal practices. According to the Risk Based Security, last […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2016
TreasureHunt PoS Malware targets small retailers and banks

Security experts at FireEye have spotted the activity of a criminal organization that using the custom PoS malware TreasureHunt to target small retailers. Security experts at FireEye have spotted the activity of a criminal organization that using custom PoS malware family to target retailers. Hackers are using the PoS malware dubbed TreasureHunt or TreasureHunter to steal payment card data and sells […]

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