Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini May 18, 2018
Satori Botnet is targeting exposed Ethereum mining pools running the Claymore mining software

While a new variant of the dreaded Mirai botnet, so-called Wicked Mirai, emerged in the wild the operators of the Mirai Satori botnet appear very active. Experts observed hackers using the Satori botnet to mass-scan the Internet for exposed Ethereum mining pools, they are scanning for devices with port 3333 exposed online. The port 3333 is a port […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Russian Telegrab malware harvesting Telegram Desktop credentials, cookies, desktop cache, and key files

Cisco Talos researchers have spotted a new variant of Telegrab malware designed to collect information from the Desktop version of the popular messaging service Telegram. Security experts from Cisco Talos group have spotted a new strain of malware that is targeting the desktop version of end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service Telegram. We all know that […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 17, 2018
Mexican central bank confirmed that SWIFT hackers stole millions of dollars from Mexican Banks

The head of the Mexican central bank, Alejandro Diaz de Leon announced this week that hackers were involved in shadowy transfers of between $18 million and $20 million. Mexican central bank is the last victim of the SWIFT hackers, officials at the bank confirmed this week that hackers hit the payments system and stole millions […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 15, 2018
Rail Europe North America hit by payment card data breach

Rail Europe North America (RENA) notifies customers of a security breach, crooks compromised its website with a malware used to siphon payment card data. The website allows users to buy European train tickets, according to the company the data breach lasted at least three months (between November 29, 2017 and February 16, 2018), the incident exposed also customers’ […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
PANDA Banker malware used in several campaigns aimed at banks, cryptocurrency exchanges and social media

  Security firm F5 detailed recently discovered campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. Researchers at security firm F5 recently detected several campaigns leveraging the Panda Banker malware to target financial institution, the largest one aimed the banks in the US. In March, security researchers at Arbor […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Chili’s restaurant chain is the last victim of a Payment Card Breach

Brinker International warns customers who recently paid with their payment card at a Chili’s restaurant may have had their financial data stolen by crooks. On May 11, Brinker International company, which operates more than 1,600 Chili’s and Maggiano’s restaurants across 31 countries worldwide, announced to have suffered a data breach. “This notice is to make you […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 14, 2018
Nigelthorn malware infected over 100,000 systems abusing Chrome extensions

The Nigelthorn malware has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries by abusing a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify. A new strain of malware, dubbed Nigelthorn malware because it abuses a Google Chrome extension called Nigelify, has already infected over 100,000 systems in 100 countries, most of them in the Philippines, Venezuela, and Ecuador (Over 75%). The new […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2018
Wannacry outbreak anniversary: the EternalBlue exploit even more popular now

WannaCry ransomware outbreak anniversary – According to researchers from ESET, the popularity of EternalBlue increase significantly over the past months. Exactly one year ago, on May 12, the WannaCry ransomware infected hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The success of the malware was the use of the EternalBlue exploit that was stolen by Shadow Brokers […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 10, 2018
The source code of the TreasureHunter PoS Malware leaked online

  Security experts at Flashpoint confirmed the availability online for the source code of the TreasureHunter PoS malware since March. The researchers found evidence that the threat has been around since at least late 2014. TreasureHunt was first discovered by researchers at the SANS Institute who noticed the malware generating mutex names to evade detection. TreasureHunt enumerates the processes running on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2018
Reading the 2017 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2017 Internet Crime Report, one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends in the last 12 months. The first figure that captures […]