banking

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2013
Bank robbery. Global Network of cyber criminals stole $45m from ATMs

The biggest Bank robbery realized by a gang of hackers, a global network of cyber criminals operating in 26 countries stole $45 million hacking into a database of prepaid debit cards. The news on the biggest bank robbery with a cyber attack against ATMs in the history is conquering the Network, US law enforcement has […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2013
Public offer of Zeus FaaS service on social network

Public offer of Zeus FaaS service on Facebook My readers know very well the dynamic of cybercrime enterprise and in particular of the growing interest in monetization malicious codes such as malware, ransomware and more in general botnets. One of the most targeted sector is banking, the evolution of banking services, their introduction on mobile platforms made attractive targets for cyber criminals, one […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 23, 2013
New wave of DDoS against EU Banking can hide a sinister mystery

In the last months of 2012 a group of hackers known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” conducted a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions including the U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. Security experts noted that the hackers adopted an anomalous strategy for the […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 17, 2013
Zeus hit five major banks in Japan

Zeus malware is considered the most popular and prolific malicious code for banking, it is one of the privilege agent by cybercrime the use to sell various customized version in the underground to conduct sophisticated frauds. Security community has found it in different occasion and anyway it was a surprice, the malware has evolved in […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2013
PiceBOT crimeware hit Latin American banking

In the last weeks we discussed on the efficiency of exploit kits, malicious tool kits  that allow to the attackers to exploit a huge quantity of vulnerabilities in victims systems. These products are largely diffused in the underground where is possible to find different tools usable for various purpose, most precious are those kit that […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 28, 2013
Dissecting a mobile malware

The capillary diffusion of mobile devices, the lack of security systems on these platforms and low level of awareness on principal cyber threats made them a privileged target for cybercrime. We have assisted in the recent year to an explosion of malware designed to hit principal mobile OSs, in a recent report Sophos security firm […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2013
Gozi.3 men,1M computers infected, Millions $ stolen

The news is sensational US authorities blamed 3 individuals of a large scale malware-based attack against banking world, the trojan infected at least one million computers stealing millions of dollars. The three are the Russian Nikita Kuzmin (25 year old), Latvian resident Deniss Calovskis (27 year old) and Romanian Mihai Ionut Paunescu (28 year old) […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2013
New variant of banking malware Shylock spread via Skype

The news is very concerning, a new variant of the banking malware known as Shylock has been detected, it includes the capability to spread over Skype. Shylock is an old acquaintance for security community, the malware was detected for first time in 2011 by experts from Trustee firm, it is used to steal banking credentials from its […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2012
New attacks against banking, cyber Jihad or cyber warfare acts?

Last week the hacker group known as “Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters” announced a series of attacks against principal banking and financial institutions publishing a message on Pastebin profile. The principal targets include organizations such as U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase&co, Bank of America, PNC Financial Fervices Group, and SunTrust Banks. In the period between the […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2012
Group-IB: Banking trojan «Carberp» sales were reborn with bootkit module

During the last week introduced you the excellent work done by the Group-IB, a security firm resident of the Moscow-based Skolkovo Foundation that has received a grant in the amount of 30m rubles (approximately $966,000) for the development of a global counter-cybercrime system named the CyberCop. It was for me the opportunity to receive many interesting […]