Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini April 30, 2018
SamSam operators switch tactic and are more focused on targeted organizations

SamSam ransomware made the headlines again, crooks now spreading thousands of copies of the ransomware at once into individual targeted organizations. Ransomware continues to be one of the most dangerous cyber threat and incident like the one suffered by the city of Atlanta demonstrates that their economic impact on victims could be severe. SamSam ransomware […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2018
Necurs Spam Botnet operators adopt a new technique to avoid detection

Operators behind the Necurs botnet, the world’s largest spam botnet, are currently using a new evasion technique attempting to surprise the unprepared defenses. Necurs is the world’s largest spam botnet, it is composed of millions of infected computers worldwide. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed its activity in April […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2018
Dutch Police shut down the Anon-IB revenge porn forum

The Dutch National Police shut down the anonymous revenge-porn sharing site Anon-IB, an aggregator website for revenge and child pornography. Dutch Police shut down a Notorious ‘Revenge Porn’ Site Anon-IB, the authorities have arrested three men for stealing explicit pictures of girls and young women from their cloud data. The men are aged 28 to 35 and […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 27, 2018
Rubella Macro Builder Crimeware Kit gains popularity on cybercrime underground

A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground, experts already spotted its malware in the wild. A new crimeware kit dubbed the Rubella Macro Builder is rapidly gaining popularity in the cybercriminal underground. The Rubella Macro Builder allows crooks to generate a malicious payload for social-engineering […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2018
CVE-2018-7602 – Drupal addressed a new vulnerability associated with Drupalgeddon2 flaw

The new flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7602, is a highly critical remote code execution issue, Drupal team fixed it with the release of versions 7.59, 8.4.8 and 8.5.3. Drupal team has released updates for versions 7 and 8 of the popular content management system (CMS) to address the recently disclosed CVE-2018-7600 Drupalgeddon2 flaw. The new flaw tracked as CVE-2018-7602, is a highly […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2018
Police shut down the biggest DDoS-for-hire service (webstresser.org) and arrested its administrators

The European police have shut down webstresser.org, the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire service, that allowed crooks to launch over 4 million attacks. An international operation dubbed conducted by the European law enforcement agencies led by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) and the Dutch Police, with the help of Europol, has taken down the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2018
Orangeworm cyber espionage group target Healthcare organizations worldwide

Symantec researchers have monitored the activity of a cyber espionage group tracked as Orangeworm that targets organizations in the healthcare sector. Security experts at Symantec have published a report on the activity of a cyber espionage group tracked as Orangeworm that targets healthcare organizations. “Symantec has identified a previously unknown group called Orangeworm that has […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2018
SunTrust unfaithful employee may have stolen data on 1.5 Million customers

SunTrust Banks Inc announced it discovered that a former employee may have attempted to download information on nearly 1.5 million clients and share it a criminal organization. A former employee at the SunTrust Bank may have stolen data on 1.5 million clients,  including names, addresses, phone numbers, and account balances. “The company became aware of potential […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2018
Experts spotted spam campaigns delivering XTRAT and DUNIHI backdoors bundled with the Adwind RAT

Security experts at Trend Micro have spotted spam campaigns delivering XTRAT and DUNIHI Backdoors and Loki malware bundled with the Adwind RAT. Malware researchers at Trend Micro have uncovered a spam campaign that delivers the infamous Adwind RAT (aka jRAT) alongside the XTRAT backdoor (aka XtremeRAT) and the Loki info stealer. In a separate Adwind RAT spam campaign, the researchers observed the use […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 22, 2018
Unscrupulous crooks behind the RansSIRIA Ransomware try to exploit attentions on Syrian refugee crisis

Researchers at MalwareHunterTeam have discovered a new strain of ransomware called RansSIRIA that encrypts victim’s files and then states it will donate the ransom to Syrian refugees. Unscrupulous cybercriminals try to exploit every situation, even the most dramatic incidents. In the past, crooks attempted to exploits the media attention on dramatic events such as the Boston Marathon, the […]