Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2018
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai published an interesting post on SIM hijacking highlighted the risks for the end users and their exposure to this illegal practice. In 2017, hackers stole some personal information belonging to T-Mobile customers by exploiting a well-known vulnerability. A video tutorial titled ‘T-Mobile Info Disclosure exploit’ showing how to use the flaw was also published […]
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
February 18, 2018
Hacker Group Makes $3 Million by Installing Monero Miners on Jenkins Servers A criminal organization has made $3.4 million by compromising Jenkins servers and installing a Monero cryptocurrency miner dubbed JenkinsMiner. “The perpetrator, allegedly of Chinese origin, has been running the XMRig miner on many versions of Windows, and has already secured him over $3 million worth […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2018
Free decryption keys for the Cryakl ransomware were added to the free Rakhni Decryptor that could be downloaded on the NoMoreRansom website. The Belgian Federal Police has located the command and control server used by a criminal organization behind the Cryakl ransomware. The server was located in an unspecified neighboring country, law enforcement seized it and shared the decryption […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2018
Thousands of websites worldwide hijacked by a cryptocurrency mining code due to the hack of the popular Browsealoud plugin. A massive attack hit thousands of websites around the world, crooks deployed Coinhive scripts forcing them to secretly mine cryptocurrencies on visitors’ browsers. The list of compromised websites (4275) includes the UK’s NHS, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) (ico.org.uk), the UK’s […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2018
Buying or selling goods through online auctions is more popular than ever. Which are the best practices to follow for buyers and sellers for an online auction? Buying or selling goods through online auctions is more popular than ever. Today, there are a number of different auctions sites available where sellers can post new and […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 09, 2018
A new PoS malware dubbed UDPoS appeared in the threat landscape and implements a novel and hard to detect technique to steal credit card data from infected systems. The UDPoS malware was spotted by researchers from ForcePoint Labs, it relies upon User Datagram Protocol (UDP) DNS traffic for data exfiltration instead of HTTP that is the protocol used by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2018
The US authorities have dismantled a global cybercrime organization tracked Infraud Organization involved in stealing and selling credit card and personal identity data. The US authorities have taken down a global cybercrime organization, the Justice Department announced indictments for 36 people charged with being part of a crime ring specialized in stealing and selling credit […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 07, 2018
WordPress hacks are increasingly common. Whether itâs for malicious reasons, to harm a site or to just insert backlinks, WordPress can be very vulnerable if not cared for and updated regularly. How to Prevent hacks? So, how do you prevent these security blips – this post aims to show how. Backup Regular data backup can […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2018
The Europolâs European Cybercrime Centre along with the UK NSA disclosed the details of an international law enforcement operation that dismantled a crime ring linked to Luminosity RAT. The Europolâs European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) along with the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) disclosed the details of an international law enforcement operation that targeted the criminal ecosystem around the Luminosity […]
