Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2016
Is the Infocube firm tied to the Carbanak cybercrime gang?

The security expert Brian Krebs investigated the links between the Carbanak cybercrime gang and the Infocube security firm. Today I want to share with you the findings of an investigation of the popular cyber security expert Brian Krebs. This time, Krebs investigated the link between a cybercrime gang and a security firm. The security company […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2016
Snowden and Bunnies devised the Introspection Engine to avoid surveillance

The NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the popular hacker Andrew “Bunnie” Huang designed Introspection Engine, an interesting anti-surveillance device. While the number of mobile devices is outclassing the number of desktop ones, the concern about the surveillance activities conducted by governments is growing as never before also thanks the Snowden revelations. Mobile devices, often unprotected, […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016
Feds arrested the KickassTorrents owner and seized the domain names

The federal authorities have arrested the alleged mastermind behind KickassTorrents (KAT) and seized its domains, blocking its operations. According to the US Justice Department, the feds have arrested Artem Vaulin the alleged mastermind behind the BitTorrent distribution site KickassTorrents (KAT). The KickassTorrents website kat.cr is down worldwide and most of KAT domains (kickasstorrents.com, kickass.to, kat.ph, kastatic.com, thekat.tv, kat.cr, kickass.cr) […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016
The threat of Ransomware

Recently, Reuters reported that the FBI sent an urgent confidential ‘Flash’ message to businesses and organizations to warn them about ransomware. Sponsored Content It is that dangerous. This is a new version of the ransom note, a form of malware that interferes with access to user files and data by encrypting it. Those running the […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016
Is Phineas Fisher behind the AKP hack that allowed the disclosure of Erdogan Emails?

One of the most popular hacktivists, Phineas Fisher claimed responsibility for the hack of the Turkish Government that lead the disclosure of Erdogan Emails. A few hours ago I reported the news of the ban on Wikileaks decide by the Turkish Government in response to the publishing of the Erdogan Emails, now the popular Phineas Phisher […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 21, 2016
Major websites compromised in the last SoakSoak campaign

A large number of business websites have been compromised by the SoakSoak gang to deliver ransomware. Security experts from Invincea firm have discovered that a large number of websites were recruited by the SoakSoak botnet to deliver CryptXXX malware. The list of compromised sites is long and includes the tourism website for Guatemala and the do-it-yourself project […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 20, 2016
Delilah, the first Trojan to recruit Insiders

Delilah is the first extortion trojan that spies on victims and collects information to force them in doing malicious activities from inside. Delilah is a strain of malware developed to extort victims into stealing insider data, it was first discovered on crime forums by the Israeli intelligence firm Diskin Advanced Technologies. Deliah is not distributed in […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
cuteRansomware leverages Google Docs to avoid detection

A newly strain of ransomware dubbed cuteRansomware leverages on a Google Doc to host the decryption key and command-and-control features. A recently discovered strain of ransomware, dubbed cuteRansomware, shows that your enterprise isn’t the only one thinking about cloud transition. Modern day hackers are loving the Cloud too. The cuteRansomware was discovered by Netskope security firm which observes an increase […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
Abusing Two-factor authentication to steal money from Instagram, Google and Microsoft

A security expert revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s two-factor authentication methods that could allow crooks to steal money. Social media bug bounty hunter, Arne Swinnen, has revealed a number of flaws in the big player’s 2 factor authentication (2FA) methods that could enable a malicious user to illicit large sums of […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 19, 2016
SFG malware was not designed to target SCADA systems in the energy industry

Security experts from Damballa that analyzed the SFG malware confirmed that it was not designed to target SCADA systems in the energy industry Recently, experts from the SentinelOne security firm spotted a sophisticated malware dubbedSFG, a spawn of Furtim malicious code, targeting at least one European energy company. Media speculated the existence of a powerful SFG […]