law enforcement

Pierluigi Paganini December 05, 2015
The senior advisor behind Silk Road has been arrested

Roger Thomas Clark the alleged mentor of Ross Ulbricht, the owner of the most popular black market Silk Road, has been arrested in Thailand. The alleged mentor of Ross Ulbricht, the owner of the most popular black market Silk Road, has been arrested in Thailand and charged with conspiring to traffic drugs and money laundering. Roger Thomas Clark (54) […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 30, 2015
Italian intelligence plans to monitor also communications through the Playstation

Italian intelligence is planning to invest in solutions that could allow its counter-terrorism agents to monitor Sony’s PlayStation Network. The Italian intelligence is planning to invest in solutions that could allow the agents of the Italian counter-terrorism to monitor Sony’s PlayStation Network in order to prevent any abuse of jihadists. A few hours later the Paris attacks, […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 26, 2015
FBI is hunting MrGrey who has stolen 1.2 BILLION login credentials

The FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his name is MrGrey. According to a report published by the Reuters, the FBI is convinced that there is a single hacker behind the theft of login credentials for over 1.2 Billion online accounts, his […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 18, 2015
The number of Governments using the FinFisher Spyware is increased

A new research conducted by Citizen Lab revealed that the number of governments using the FinFisher surveillance software has increased. Researchers at Citizen Lab have been monitoring the use of surveillance tools like FinFisher over the past years reporting its use by totalitarian governments. The researchers tracked the physical locations of servers belonging to the control infrastructure used […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2015
Chinese law enforcement arrested 15,000 for cybercrime under the op “Cleaning the Internet”

The Government of Beijing has arrested nearly 15,000 people involved in cybercrime as part of the operation “Cleaning the Internet.” The Chinese authorities have arrested nearly 15,000 people involved in criminal activities online as part of the operation against the cybercrime is dubbed “Cleaning the Internet.” The Chinese Government accused the suspect to have “jeopardized Internet security.” According […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 06, 2015
DoJ defines new rules for spying with the Stingray technology

The US Justice Department issued guidelines for StingRay Surveillance devices, new rules define aim to ensure privacy protection and transparency. Do you know what is a StingRay? If you want further details give a look to a post I wrote for the Infosec Institute on the StingRay Technology: “StingRay is an IMSI-catcher (International Mobile Subscriber […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 03, 2015
Dark Web intelligence pro and cons

Dark Web Intelligence could help law enforcement and intelligence agencies to gather information on potential attacks. Which are the risks? The increased number of cyber attacks against government entities and the hypothesis that the U.S. government should take an offensive strike against hackers who hit the countries raised the discussion on the problem of the attribution. Prevention, mitigation and […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 13, 2015
Europol and Spanish police dismantled a very active cyber gang

A joint effort of the Europol with the Spanish Police allowed to dismantle a very active cyber criminal gang operating in Barcellona. The Europol has supported the Spanish Police (Grupo de fraudes en el uso de las telecomunicaciones de la Brigada Central de Seguridad Informatica-U.I.T Madrid) to dismantle cyber criminal group, the joint operation is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2015
Blackshades mastermind sentenced to almost five years in prison

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 Yücel (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 22, 2015
Isis’s propaganda machine hunted down by Europol Web unit

The Europol announced the creation of a team that aims to find key figures in propaganda campaigns run by ISIS members seeking to recruit foreign fighters. Isis‘s machine propaganda is a very important target, since it generates something like 100.000 daily tweets, and it’s used to recruit foreign fighters to support the group. Isis is gaining […]