Cybercrime

Pierluigi Paganini February 12, 2020
Reading the 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report, a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual  FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months. The figure […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 11, 2020
Safer internet day – Cybercrime facts Infographic

Dear readers, I decided to create a simple Infographic that shows Cybercrime facts in 2019, I’ve done it for Safer Internet Day 2020. Enjoy it! [adrotate banner=”9″] [adrotate banner=”12″] Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – cybercrime, hacking) [adrotate banner=”5″] [adrotate banner=”13″]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2020
Maastricht University finally paid a 30 bitcoin ransom to crooks

In December, Maastricht University was hit with ransomware attack, now the university admitted to have paid the ransom requested by crooks. In December 2019, Maastricht University (UM) announced that ransomware infected almost all of its Windows systems on December 23. Maastricht University is an excellent university attended by over 18,000 students, roughly 4,400 employees, and 70,000 alumni. “Maastricht […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2020
Hackers abuse BitBucket to infect 500K+ hosts with arsenal of malware

Threat actors are abusing the Bitbucket code hosting service to host seven types of malware that has already claimed more than 500,000 business computers. Cybereason researchers reported that attackers are abusing the Bitbucket code hosting service to store seven types of malware that were employed in an ongoing campaign. According to the experts, the malware […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2020
Toll Group shuts down some online systems after ransomware attack

The Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll Group has suffered a ransomware attack that forced it to shut down part of its services. The Australian transportation and logistics giant Toll Group was victim of a ransomware attack, in response to the incident the company has shut down some of its online services. The Toll Group is an […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2020
Ransomware brought down services of popular TV search engine TVEyes

TVEyes was brought down after its core server and engineering workstations were infected with a ransomware attack, company CEO confirmed. TVEyes is a company that manages a popular platform for monitoring TV and radio news broadcasts, it is used worldwide by PR agencies and newsrooms. On Thursday night, a ransomware attack hit the company network causing […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 03, 2020
Apollon Darknet market is allegedly pulling an exit scam

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market, one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators. Users on Reddit are reporting that vendors can’t withdrawal funds nor sign into their […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2020
Mozilla banned hundreds of malicious Firefox add-ons over the last weeks

Mozilla is intensifying the efforts to protect its users, in the last couple of weeks, the security staff has banned 200 malicious Firefox add-ons. Over the past two weeks, Mozilla has reviewed and banned 197 Firefox add-ons because they were executing malicious code. The malicious Firefox add-ons were found stealing user data and for this […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020
Security Affairs newsletter Round 248

A new round of the weekly newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs Bot list with Telnet credentials for more than 500,000 servers and IoT devices leaked online Hackers patch Citrix servers to deploy their own backdoor Citrix releases permanent fixes for CVE-2019-19781 flaw in ADC 11.1 and 12.0 JhoneRAT uses […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 26, 2020
Authorities arrest 3 Indonesian hackers behind many Magecart attacks

The Indonesian National Police and the Interpol announced the arrest of three Indonesian hackers who carried out Magecart attacks. The Indonesian National Police in a joint press conference with Interpol announced the result of an investigation dubbed ‘Operation Night Fury’ that allowed to arrest three hackers that carried out Magecart attacks to steal payment card data. The […]