Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2015
According to a report published by The Telegraph, scammers are targeting iPhone and iPad users with a new elaborate scheme that relies on iOS crash warnings Scammers are targeting iPhone and iPad users with a new-old elaborate scheme that relies on iOS crash warnings. Scammers are using JavaScript generated dialogs to display IOS Crash warnings, as explained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 03, 2015
Cybercriminals are targeting call centers operators in Apple Pay fraud to circumvent the checks implemented by Apple, banks and card issuers. The security expert Cherian Abraham revealed a spike in the fraud on Apple’s mobile payment platform, Apple Pay. The criminals are trying new techniques to compromise the Apple security chain. While the Apple devices and software are […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 28, 2015
Twitter announced that it is starting to track phone numbers of users as a measure to prevent abuses like the creation of new bogus accounts. A few weeks ago, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo explained the difficulties the company is facing to prevent the abuse of its platform. Costolo revealed to be embarrassed for the company’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2015
Which is the cost of personal data in the criminal underground? How cyber criminals steal personal data? Which is the cashout process? What is the underground economy? Put simply, the underground economy is a collection of forums, chat rooms and custom-made websites that are all designed to facilitate, streamline and industrialize cybercrime. Itâs within these […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2015
IC3 and FBI warn about a significant increase of cases related to Business Email Compromise, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam. According to an online statement from the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) and the FBI, nearly 2,000 individuals were victims of a wire payment scam that was extended to 45 countries and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 15, 2014
Experts at Arbor networks discovered a new variant of GameOver Zeus Botnet which implement DGA scheme. Recently law enforcement agencies have taken down the GameOver Zeus botnet with a multinational effort, but a few weeks later, researchers at Seculert spotted a new variant in the wild, which implements a domain generation algorithm.Investigators from FBI and Europol […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 10, 2014
Security Experts at Cheetah Mobile have uncovered a new scam based on a fake Facebook Color Changer App which infected 10000 users worldwide. Facebook  is a privileged target for cyber criminals, in many cases old fraud schema are proposed again by bad actors, it is the case of the bogus Facebook “Color Changer” app. Researchers at China-based Internet company […]
Pierluigi Paganini
August 03, 2014
A very sophisticated phishing campaign has been discovered by Malcovery Security, it targets French-speaking computer users to steal banking credentials. Phishing is a very prolific business for cybercrime, bad actors are adopting even more sophisticated techniques like the one discovered recently which hit French-speaking computer users, in an attempt to steal their online banking credentials. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 27, 2014
Experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered a new Nigeria 419 scam scheme which is targeting businesses in a malicous campaign dubbed Silver Spaniel. The Nigeria 419 schema adopted by criminal gangs world wide has been improved by scammers which are also including the use of remote access trojans (RATs). A report published by the Palo […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 05, 2014
RSA Security has discovered a large-scale malware campaign, which hijacked Boleto payments causing an amount of financial losses for 3,75 USD billion losses. Security experts at RSA Security have recently discovered a large-scale malware campaign thatâs been operating at least for two years, the malicious code implements the man-in-the-browser technique to exploit vulnerabilities in popular browsers, including Chrome, Firefox […]
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