Pierluigi Paganini
June 25, 2015
Swedish Co-Creator Of Blackshades RAT was sentenced by the US authorities to 57 months in prison. Another success of the law enforcement against cybercrime. A New York federal court sentenced Alex YĂŒcel (a.k.a. “marjinz“), a Swedish man, who is the alleged mastermind behind the BlackShades Remote Access Tool (RAT). BlackShades is a popular RAT in the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2015
Security experts at Nettitude reported that VoIP (Voice over IP) infrastructures worldwide are targeted by a growing number of cyber attacks. A new wave of attacks against Voice over IP (VoIP) systems is targeting UK businesses, security experts believe that a surge was advantaged by the greater availability of hacking tools in the criminal underground. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 08, 2015
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
May 26, 2015
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 07, 2015
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
January 02, 2015
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Portsmouth revealed that over 80 Percent of Tor network visits is related to pedo sites. In the last couple of years a growing number of security experts are focusing their research on Darknet, a portion of the Deep Web often used by the criminal underground to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 21, 2014
Experts at Dell Secure Works Counter Threat Unit (CTU) published a new report on the evolution of the hacking underground marketplaces. The monitoring of black hat markets is one the principal activities of security experts and intelligence agencies, it allows information gathering on evolution of cyber threats and emerging trends in the criminal ecosystem. In […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2014
Symantec discovered a new HTTP Android Remote administration tool, named Dendroid, available on the underground market for only $300. Symantec researchers have discovered a new android malware toolkit dubbed Dendroid, early 2014 the company also detected AndroRAT, an Android Remote admin tool which is believed to be the first malware APK binder. Thanks to the diffusion of the Google […]
