Pierluigi Paganini
December 14, 2017
The US DoJ announced plea agreements for Paras Jha, Josiah White, and Dalton Norman, 21 for creating and operating the dreaded Mirai botnet. US authorities charge three men with developing and running the dreaded Mirai botnet that was involved in several massive DDoS attacks. According to documents released by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 13, 2017
It has happened again, several banking Trojan samples have been found on Google Play, this time the malicious code targeted a number of Polish banks. The malware was disguised as seemingly legitimate apps âCrypto Monitorâ, a cryptocurrency price tracking app, and âStorySaverâ, a third-party tool for downloading stories from Instagram. The malicious code is able to display […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
Crooks are now involving a small, battery-powered device dubbed Smart Shield Detector that is able to detect digital anti-skimming technology used by ATMs. ATM skimmers are widely adopted by crooks to steal payment card data, in the last months, experts observed an increase in the number of cyber attacks against ATM involving so-called âinsert skimmers.â In response, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
A 41-gigabyte archive containing 1.4 Billion credentials in clear text was found in dark web, it had been updated at the end of November. Another monster data dump was found online, the huge archive contains over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials in clear text. The huge trove of data, a 41-gigabyte archive, has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 12, 2017
Experts at Malwarebytes warns of a new variant of the macOS OceanLotus backdoor is using an innovative technique to avoid detection, A few years ago the bad actors realized they could use UNICODE characters that looked like English characters to lead unsuspecting victims to malicious websites. Now, they have figured out how to use a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Cyber espionage is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. These are 10 Biggest Cyber Espionage Cases. Cyber spying is now becoming more sophisticated and widespread both on the international and domestic stages. Cyber terrorists can attack you from any place in the world at any time if you […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Hackers compromised computer systems at an Australian Airport and stole sensitive security details and building plans. The man was identified and arrested. Hackers compromised computer systems at the Australian Perth Airport and stole sensitive security details and building plans. The culprit has a name, he is the Vietnamese citizen Le Duc Hoang Hai (31) who accessed the systems in March last year […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
Group-IB spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker group that stole as much as $10 million from US and Russian banks. Researchers from security firm Group-IB has spotted the operations of a Russian-speaking cyber gang tracked as MoneyTaker that has stolen as much as $10 million from U.S. and Russian banks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 11, 2017
According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, and the median price range for them hits $200. According to the firm Carbon Black, Android ransomware kits are very popular in the dark web, more than 5,000 Android ransomware kit listings have been discovered in 2017. Even if most ransomware kits are still focused […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 09, 2017
A new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware is currently being used by crooks in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Security experts at Doctor Web discovered a new IoT botnet leveraging the Linux.ProxyM malware that is currently being used in a campaign attempting to hack websites. Experts first analyzed the Linux.ProxyM in July, it was used to create a proxy […]
