Pierluigi Paganini
March 26, 2018
The head of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 targeted banks worldwide has been arrested in Spain. The mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) in a bank cyber heist has been arrested in Spain. The man is suspected to be the kingpin of the crime ring behind the Carbanak gang that since 2013 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 09, 2018
In just one night a Russian crime gang stole 3.8 million slopes (860,000 euros) from 32 ATMs belonging to the Raiffeisen Romania bank. Cybercriminals stole 3.8 million slopes (860,000 euros) from 32 ATMs belonging to the Raiffeisen Romania bank using an infected RTF document. The criminal organization led by Dmitriy Kvasov operated in Romania, the gang stole […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
The Indian bank Kumbakonam-based City Union Bank announced that cyber criminals compromised its systems and transferred a total of US$1.8 million. During the weekend, the Russian central bank revealed a new attack against the SWIFT system, unknown hackers have stolen 339.5 million roubles (roughly $6 million) from a Russian bank last year. Even if the SWIFT international bank […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 30, 2018
Cybercriminals are targeting ATM machines in the US forcing them to spit out hundreds of dollars with ‘jackpotting‘ attacks. According to a senior US Secret Service official, the organization has managed to steal more than $1m from ATM machines using this technique. Once crooks gain physical access to the ATM, they will infect it with a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 19, 2018
Security researchers at Forcepoint have spotted a new spam campaign that is abusing compromised FTP servers as a repository for malicious documents and infecting users with the Dridex banking Trojan. The Dridex banking Trojan is a long-running malware that has been continuously improved across the years. The malicious email campaign was first noticed by Forcepoint on January 17, 2018, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 30, 2017
A hacker belonging to the Lurk cybercrime gang admits the creation of WannaCry ransomware and DNC hack on request of intelligence agencies. In an interview to Dozhd TV channel, one of the members of the Lurk crime group arrested in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg, Konstantin Kozlovsky, told that he was one of the authors of the dreaded WannaCry ransomware and that […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 17, 2017
PRILEX is a new ATM malware analyzed by researchers at Trend Micro that was used in high-targeted attacks against a Brazilian bank. Security researchers from Trend Micro recently discovered a strain of ATM malware dubbed PRILEX that was involved in targeted attacks in Brazil. PRILEX is written in Visual Basic 6.0 (VB6), it was specifically designed to […]
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
November 26, 2017
A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office flaw were publicly disclosed, the firm Reversing Lab observed Cobalt group using it. A few days after details about the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office vulnerability were publicly disclosed, security experts from firm Reversing Lab observed criminal gang using it in the wild. The gang is the notorious Cobalt hacking group […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 18, 2017
Security experts at Trend Micro had recently observed a new variant of the EMOTET banking Trojan that implements new evasion features. EMOTET, aka Geodo, is linked to the dreaded Dridex and Feodo (Cridex, Bugat) malware families. In past campaigns, EMOTET was used by crooks to steal banking credentials and as a malicious payload downloader. The experts observed […]
