Cyber Crime

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2015
Experts uncovered a massive CTB-Locker ransowmare campaign

Security researchers at the CERT team at Société Générale uncovered a new malware campaign which is spreading the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. Security experts at the CERT team at Société Générale discovered a new malware campaign delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware. In the past, the criminals used the popular Angler exploit kit in order […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2015
Target Hackers Hit Third Parking Service

Criminal crew behind Target and Home Depot data breaches is now targeting online parking reservation services, Book2park is the third victim since December. The hacking crew hackers behind the data breaches of the retail chain Target and Home Depot are now threatening parking lots according to the recent report published by the popular investigator Brian Krebs. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2015
Cybercrime – UNICRI study analyzed risks for the economy and enterprises

UNICRI published a study on the impact of the cybercrime on the economy in the Europen region with a specific focus on the effect suffered by enterprises. The UNICRI has recently published a study titled “Cybercrime and the risks for the economy and enterprises at the European Union and Italian level” that analyzed the impact of […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2015
A third Flash Zero-Day is being exploited in the wild

A third critical zero-day vulnerability affects Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for Windows, Linux and Mac. It is the third time in a few weeks that the security of Adobe users is menaced by a zero-day in Flash that affects Windows, Linux and OS X systems. The company is already working to provide a patch […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2015
Hackers stole GigaBytes of Syrian opposition’s data, including battle plans

A report issued by FireEye revealed that hackers have stolen GigaBytes of data from Syrian opposition’s computers, including battlefield plans. A recent report issued by FireEye revealed that hackers tapped into Syrian opposition’s computers and have stolen gigabytes of secret communications and battlefield plans. In mid-2013, ten armed units belonging to the opposition to the Syrian Government were […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 02, 2015
The Pirate Bay back online … with many doubts

The Pirate Bay is online again, but many shadows obfuscate its rebirth. Angry staff members promise to open the full site back on a separate domain. The torrent-indexing website Pirate Bay has risen again after almost two months of total outage. The Pirate Bay it the most popular file-sharing website used to share copyrighted material free of charge, last year it […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2015
IC3 and FBI warn about Business Email Compromise aka Wire Payment Scam

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 January 30, 2015
News Zeus shows significant a evolution in the criminal ecosystem

Researchers at SentinelOne have discovered a strain of the Zeus malware that includes a very sophisticated control panel and evasion techniques. Malware researchers at SentinelOne  have spotted a new Zeus variant that was used to target major Canadian banks, including the National Bank of Canada, the Bank of Montreal and the Royal Bank of Canada. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015
ZeroAccess botnet ‘reloaded’ again with click-fraud activity

The Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) research team observed the ZeroAccess botnet resumes again with click-fraud activity. Law enforcement has destroyed the ZeroAccess botnet, also known as Sirefef, in December 2013 by a joint effort of Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, FBI, Europol and industry partners. The ZeroAccess botnet is considered one of most insidious malicious […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2015
Spam campaign relies on macros embedded in empty Word documents

Experts at Bitdefender have discovered a spam campaign that tricks antispam filters by relying on macros in Empty Word Documents. Security experts at BitDefender observed a new tactic adopted by spammers that rely on emails with an empty Word document in the attachment to bypass anti-spam filters. The social engineering strategy adopted by spammers to lure victims into […]