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Duuzer Trojan: A New Backdoor Targeting South Korean Organizations | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/computer-malware-attack.html | Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a new Backdoor Trojan that grants hackers remote access and some control over infected machines.
"Duuzer," as dubbed by the researchers, has been targeting organizations in South Korea and elsewhere in an attempt to steal valuable information.
The Trojan is designed to ... | Cyber_Attack |
More than 250 iOS Apps Caught Using Private APIs to Collect Users' Private Data | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/apple-ios-malware-apps.html | Apple is cleaning up its iTunes App Store again – for the third time in two months – following another flood of iOS apps that secretly collect users' personal information.
Researchers discovered more than 250 iOS apps that were violating Apple's App Store privacy policy, gathering personal identifiable data from almos... | Cyber_Attack |
Cisco Takes Down Ransomware Operation Generating $30 Million in Revenue For Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/ransomware-hacking.html | This will blow the minds of every single cyber criminal group out there – Researchers have discovered a group of hackers that is making an estimated $30 Million a year from their online criminal operation.
Yes, $30 MILLLLLLION annually.
Researchers from cyber security firm Cisco announced that they discovered a large... | Cyber_Attack |
YiSpecter — First iOS Malware that Attacks both: Non-jailbroken and Jailbroken Devices | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/ios-malware-attack.html | Less than a month after Apple suffered one of its biggest malware attacks ever, security researchers have discovered another strain of malware that they claim targets both jailbroken as well as non-jailbroken iOS devices.
Last month, researchers identified more than 4,000 infected apps in Apple's official App Store, w... | Cyber_Attack |
Data Breach Day — Patreon (2.3M), T-Mobile (15M) and Scottrade (4.6M) — HACKED! | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/data-breach-hacking.html | This week, three high-profile data breaches took place, compromising personal and sensitive details of millions of people.
Telecommunication giant T-Mobile
Crowdfunding website Patreon
US brokerage firm Scottrade
In T-Mobile's case, its credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing highly sensi... | Cyber_Attack |
How to Freeze Credit Report To Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/howto-Freeze-Credit-Report.html | If your Social Security number gets hacked in any data breaches, including recently hacked T-Mobile, then there's a way to prevent hackers from misusing your identity (i.e. identity theft).
The solution here is that you can institute a security freeze at each of the three credit bureaus, Equifax, Experian, or TransUni... | Cyber_Attack |
Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked | https://thehackernews.com/2015/10/experian-tmobile-hack.html | If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service.
T-Mobile's credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15 million people in the Unit... | Cyber_Attack |
New Botnet Hunts for Linux — Launching 20 DDoS Attacks/Day at 150Gbps | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/xor-ddos-attack.html | A network of compromised Linux servers has grown so powerful that it can blow large websites off the Internet by launching crippling Distributed Denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks of over 150 gigabits per second (Gbps).
The distributed denial-of-service network, dubbed XOR DDoS Botnet, targets over 20 websites per day, ... | Cyber_Attack |
Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm, aka Anakata, Released from Prison | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/pirate-bay-gottfrid.html | Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, the co-founder of the notorious file-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has been released from a Sweden prison following three years behind bars for hacking and copyright offenses.
Yes, Svartholm Warg, also known as Anakata, is a free man again.
Svartholm was convicted on both Swedish copyright ... | Cyber_Attack |
Warning! Popular Apple Store Apps Infected with Data-Theft Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/apple-apps-malware.html | Unlike Google Play Store, Apple App Store is well known for not allowing any malformed apps to enter its Apple ecosystem because of its tight security checks.
But, not anymore.
Hundreds of malicious apps managed to get hosted on Apple's official App store and subsequently downloaded by several hundred Million iPad an... | Cyber_Attack |
These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/top-cyber-attacks-2.html | In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect.
As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows.
In this article, I have listed a... | Cyber_Attack |
These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/top-cyber-attacks-1.html | If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong.
Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed across the news in the las... | Cyber_Attack |
FBI's Cyber Task Force Identifies Stealthy FF-RATs used in Cyber Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/09/stealthy-malware-cyber-attack.html | In both April and June this year, a series of cyber attacks was conducted against the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
These attacks resulted in 21 million current and former Federal government employees' information being stolen.
After months of investigation, the FBI's Cyber Task Force identified... | Cyber_Attack |
Researchers to Share Details of Cyber-Terrorists Targeting Indian Government Officials | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/hacker-cyber-terrorism.html | The Potential threat, range from very narrow to very broad, posed by Cyber-Terrorism has provoked considerable alarm.
Terrorists involved in Cyber Espionage and Operations aim at gaining access to Nation's critical infrastructure involving both Government as well as Private sectors.
The Frequency and Intensity of suc... | Cyber_Attack |
This Antenna Can Remotely Steal Data From Devices using Sound Waves | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/radio-signal-hacking-computer.html | Remember the previously demonstrated technique to Hack into air-gapped computers using Heat waves?
What if the same was possible to hack computers to steal data using Sound waves?
Imagine, If a remote hacker could steal classified information from a targeted computer without having to physically and Internet access t... | Cyber_Attack |
Global Internet Authority — ICANN Hacked Again! | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/icann-hacked.html | ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) – the organisation responsible for allocating domain names and IP addresses for the Internet – has been hacked, potentially compromising its customers' names, email addresses, hashed passwords, and more.
The US-administered non-profit corporation admitted on ... | Cyber_Attack |
SSL Encryption — Securing Internet of Things (IoT) | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/ssl-encryption-internet-of-things.html | Internet of Things (IoT) with the purpose of providing convenience to the users enabled every object in the universe to be as smart as a whip.
By assigning IP address to all sorts of devices, ranging from household appliances, machines, medical devices and sensors to other day-to-day objects, and putting them all toge... | Cyber_Attack |
Operation Lotus Blossom APT - Elise Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2015/08/elise-malware-hacking.html | Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) type attacks continue to emerge on a global scale. What makes these attacks deviate from the norm is often the resources required to develop and implement them: time, money, and the knowledge required to create custom pieces of malware to carry out specific, targeted attacks.
Operation... | Cyber_Attack |
Most Vulnerable Smart Cities to Cyber Attack on Internet of Things (IoT) | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/smart-city-cyber-attack.html | Imagine…
You drive to work in your Smart-Car connected to the GPS automatically, but a hacker breaks into your car's network, takes control of the steering wheel, crashes you into a tree, and BOOM!
Believe it or not, such cyber attacks on smart devices are becoming reality.
Car Hacking was recently demonstrated by a... | Cyber_Attack |
All Smartwatches are vulnerable to Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/smartwatch-hacking.html | Do you own a Smartwatch? If yes, then how safe it is? There are almost 100 percent chances that you own a vulnerable Smartwatch.
Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard is warning users of smartwatches including Apple Watch and Samsung Gear that their wearable devices are vulnerable to cyber attacks.
In a study, HP's F... | Cyber_Attack |
Hacking Team: We're Victim of a Criminal Cyber Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/07/hacking-team-press-statement.html | Hacking Team, the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide, says the company has always operated with the law and regulation in an ethical manner.
However, there was only one Violation of Law in this entire event, and that is – "the massive cyber attack on the Hackin... | Cyber_Attack |
Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials? | https://thehackernews.com/2015/06/china-data-theft.html | The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach.
Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and steal records of Millions of employees, making it ... | Cyber_Attack |
Hola — A widely popular Free VPN service used as a Giant Botnet | https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/hola-widely-popular-free-vpn-service.html | The bandwidth of Millions of users of a popular free VPN service is being sold without their knowledge in an attempt to cover the cost of its free service, which could result in a vast botnet-for-sale network.
"Hola," a free virtual private network, is designed to help people abroad watch region restricted shows like ... | Cyber_Attack |
Volatile Cedar — Global Cyber Espionage Campaign Discovered | https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/volatile-cedar-global-cyber-espionage_29.html | Security firm Check Point has uncovered what seems to be a successful, and long-running, cyber-surveillance campaign called "Volatile Cedar." Check Point found that targets of the attack included, but were not limited to, defense contractors, media companies, telecommunications, and educational institutions.
The attac... | Cyber_Attack |
Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2015/05/venom-vulnerability.html | Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing Millions of plain-text passwords.
But don't panic. Though the... | Cyber_Attack |
Crazy! Hacker Implants NFC Chip In His Hand To Hack Android Phones | https://thehackernews.com/2015/04/nfc-chip-hack-android.html | There is a very sleek line between hacking and security. The security used to protect the public could be misused by hackers against the public itself, and one shouldn't forget that with the advance in technology, the techniques used by cyber criminals also improves.
Today, What hackers need to conduct a successful cy... | Cyber_Attack |
Anonymous Hackers Target Israeli Websites and Leak Credentials | https://thehackernews.com/2015/04/anonymous-cyber-attack-israel.html | The infamous hacking group Anonymous that vowed an 'Electronic Holocaust' against Israel and promised to 'erase Israel from cyberspace' on 7th April, managed to launch a cyber attack, beginning Tuesday morning.
In a spooky video "message to Israel" posted on YouTube March 4, Anonymous declared cyber attack against Isr... | Cyber_Attack |
Anonymous Hackers Threaten Israel with 'Electronic-Holocaust' on 7th April | https://thehackernews.com/2015/03/anonymous-hacker-israel.html | The famous cyber hacker group Anonymous has vowed an 'Electronic Holocaust' against Israel in response to what the group calls 'crimes in the Palestinian territories'.
In a spooky video "message to Israel" posted on YouTube March 4, Anonymous declared yet another cyber attack on April 7, which is one week before Holoc... | Cyber_Attack |
Hacktivist Group Anonymous (#OpISIS) Takes Down Islamic State (ISIS) Social Media Accounts | https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/anonymous-isis-cyber-attack.html | The hacktivist group Anonymous has launched a massive cyber attack against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — the radical Islamic terrorist group who were responsible for the terrorist attack against the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
With huge social media presence, ISIS is the most acti... | Cyber_Attack |
Anthem Data Breach — 6 Things You Need To Know | https://thehackernews.com/2015/02/anthem-data-breach.html | The Nation's second largest Health insurer company, Anthem, alerted its customers on Wednesday that hackers had stolen the personal information of over 80 Millions of its customers, making it the largest data breach and double the number of payment cards affected by Target data breach occurred in 2013.
The stolen pers... | Cyber_Attack |
FBI Director says 'Sloppy' Sony Hackers Left Clues that Point to North Korea | https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/fbi-sony-hacker-north-korea.html | The hackers group responsible for the last year's largest hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment left many clues which proves that the Sony's hackers, who called themselves Guardians of Peace (GOP), linked to North Korea, as claimed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Speaking at the International Con... | Cyber_Attack |
Bitstamp Bitcoin Exchange Hacked, $5 Million Stolen in Hack Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2015/01/bitstamp-bitcoin-exchange-hacked.html | One of the biggest, reliable and most trusted Bitcoin exchange — Bitstamp — on Monday announced that it has been a target of a hacking attack, which lead to the theft of "less than 19,000 BTC" (worth about $5 million in virtual currency; one BTC is about $270).
Bitstamp issued a statement on its official website in wh... | Cyber_Attack |
Beware: Fake 'The Interview' App Affects Android Users | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/movie-the-interview-android.html | "The Interview", the controversial North Korean-baiting film which appeared to be the root cause of the cyber mishap occurred at Sony Pictures Entertainment that threatened terror attack at theaters showing the movie, now threatens to expose users of Android phones to a malware attack.
Since its release, everyone is t... | Cyber_Attack |
South Korean Nuclear Power Plant Hacked | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/Korea-nuclear-power-plant-hacked.html | Koreans have once again gain media attention but this time not as an accused of any kind of hack attack, but as a victim of a severe attack on computers systems at a nuclear power plant in South Korea by an unknown hacker or a group.
South Korea was hit by a cyber attack on its nuclear power plant, causing the operato... | Cyber_Attack |
Blackhat – Upcoming Cyber Thriller Movie | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/blackhat-hacker-movie-2015.html | "Hacking" is not just popular among cyber security experts and criminals, but also is a great interest for movies industries as well. Hollywood movies such as 1995 released Hackers and 2001 released Swordfish are examples of it, and now Chris Hemsworth's new flick Blackhat.
Blackhat – An upcoming cyber thriller, direc... | Cyber_Attack |
Las Vegas Sands' Casino Network hit by Destructive Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/las-vegas-casino-hacked.html | Sony Pictures Entertainment hack that started at the end of the last month and so far has caused a severe damage to its reputation as well as resources, from internal system shutdown to upcoming movies and scripts leak. Now, a similar cyber attack against Casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp has been revealed that occu... | Cyber_Attack |
Sony Pictures Employees Receive Threatening Email After Hack | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/Sony-Hack-Cyber-Attack.html | The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment have reached a totally unbelievable and scary phase as multiple media sources are saying that Sony Pictures employees received e-mails from hackers threatening to harm them and their family members.
Said one employee, "It's really crazy and scary."
It seems... | Cyber_Attack |
Sony Pictures Hack — 5 Things You Need To Know | https://thehackernews.com/2014/12/sony-pictures-hack.html | What a horrible start the holiday season in U.S. Over Thanksgiving weekend, Sony Pictures Entertainment suffered a massive data breach as "Guardians of Peace" hacked-into Sony Pictures' computer system that brought the studio's network to a screeching halt.
Following the hack, hackers leaked five unreleased Sony movie... | Cyber_Attack |
BASHLITE Malware leverages ShellShock Bug to Hijack Devices Running BusyBox | https://thehackernews.com/2014/11/bashlite-malware-leverages-shellshock.html | Cyber criminals are using new malware variants by exploiting GNU Bash vulnerability referred to as ShellShock (CVE-2014-6271) in order to infect embedded devices running BusyBox software, according to a researcher.
A new variant of "Bashlite" malware targeting devices running BusyBox software was spotted by the resear... | Cyber_Attack |
Privacy Tools — Tor Browser 4.0 and Tails 1.2 Update Released | https://thehackernews.com/2014/10/privacy-tools-tor-browser-40-and-tails.html | Tor - Privacy oriented encrypted anonymizing service, has announced the launch of its next version of Tor Browser Bundle, Tor version 4.0, which disables SSL3 to prevent POODLE attack and uses new transports that are intended to defeat the Great Firewall of China and other extremely restrictive firewalls.
Tor is gener... | Cyber_Attack |
Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year | https://thehackernews.com/2014/09/chinese-hackers-hacked-into-us-defense_18.html | Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found.
The Senate Armed Services Committ... | Cyber_Attack |
Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2014/08/millions-of-wordpress-and-drupal.html | Users running the website on a self-hosted WordPress or on Drupal are strongly recommended to update their websites to the latest version immediately.
A moderately critical vulnerability was discovered in the way Drupal and WordPress implement XMLRPC, which can lead an attacker to disable your website via a method kno... | Cyber_Attack |
How Russian Hackers Placed "Digital Bomb" Into the NASDAQ | https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/how-russian-hackers-placed-digital-bomb.html | Four years ago, NASDAQ servers were compromised by Russian hackers, who were somehow able to insert a "digital bomb" into the systems of NASDAQ stock exchange, which would have been able to cause several damage to the computer systems in the stock market and could bring down the entire structure of the financial system... | Cyber_Attack |
FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds? | https://thehackernews.com/2014/07/fbi-botnets-infecting-18-computers-per.html | Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet.
Cyber criminals have brushed-... | Cyber_Attack |
Android 4.3 and Earlier versions Vulnerable to Critical Code-Execution Flaw | https://thehackernews.com/2014/06/android-43-and-earlier-versions.html | A critical code-execution vulnerability almost affecting everyone those are not running the most updated version of Google Android, i.e. Android version 4.4 also known as KitKat.
After nine months of vulnerability disclosure to the Android security team, researchers of the Application Security team at IBM have finally... | Cyber_Attack |
Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands | https://thehackernews.com/2014/06/feedly-and-evernote-hit-by-ddos-attacks.html | Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service (DDoS) attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money.
On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its blog saying that th... | Cyber_Attack |
eBay Hacked, Change your Account Password Now | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/ebay-hacked-change-your-account.html | If you have an eBay Account then you should change your password immediately, because the World's biggest E-commerce company with 128 million active users announced today in a press release that it had been Hacked.
eBay revealed that attackers compromised customers' database including emails, physical addresses, encry... | Cyber_Attack |
Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Uses New Encryption Softwares After NSA Revelations | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/al-qaeda-encryption-tool.html | Last year, Just after Snowden leaks, the U.S Government warned that NSA surveillance revelations will make harder to track bad guys trying to harm the United States, as disclosures can be helpful to terrorist groups.
In response to the NSA revelations, the terrorists at Al-Qaeda have started using strongest encryption... | Cyber_Attack |
Iranian Ajax Security Team targets US Defense Industry | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/iranian-ajax-security-team-targets-us.html | The Iranian hacking group, which calls itself the "Ajax Security Team", was quite famous from last few years for websites defacement attacks, and then suddenly they went into dark since past few months. But that doesn't mean that the group was inactive, rather defacing the websites, the group was planning something big... | Cyber_Attack |
Air Traffic Control System Failure Caused by Memory Shortage - A Cyber Attack? | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/air-traffic-control-system-failure.html | A shortage of computer memory in the $2.4 billion Air Traffic Control System caused a Computer crash that resulted in the System collapse, according to an insider close to the incident.
The problems began on 30 April, when a U-2 spy plane flew over southwestern US caused the air traffic control system that manages the... | Cyber_Attack |
France Telecom Orange Hacked Again, Personal Details of 1.3 Million Customers Stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/france-telecom-orange-hacked-again.html | French leading telecommunications company 'Orange' hit by second major data breach of its kind in a matter of months. Company announced that hackers have stolen personal data of 1.3 million customers of its online portal.
ORANGE HACKED SECOND TIME IN THREE MONTHS
Hackers have stolen a "limited amount of personal infor... | Cyber_Attack |
Anonymous Hacker Charged with CyberStalking Faces 440 Years in Jail | https://thehackernews.com/2014/05/Anonymous-Hacker-Charged-with-CyberStalking.html | An alleged member of the famous amorphous Hacktivist group Anonymous is now facing a total of 44 charges after the filing of the latest superseding Indictment of cyber assaults charges against him with the collective to hack Computer systems of a County Government, a school district and a Newspaper organization in Texa... | Cyber_Attack |
New Zero-Day Vulnerability CVE-2014-1776 Affects all Versions of Internet Explorer Browser | https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/new-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2014.html | Microsoft confirmed a new Zero Day critical vulnerability in its browser Internet Explorer. Flaw affects all versions of Internet Explorer, starting with IE version 6 and including IE version 11.
In a Security Advisory (2963983) released yesterday, Microsoft acknowledges a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE... | Cyber_Attack |
Vulnerability Allows Anyone to DDoS Websites Using Facebook Servers | https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/vulnerability-allows-anyone-to-ddos.html | Reading a 'Note' created by anyone on the Facebook could trick you automatically to do malicious attacks against others unknowingly.
A Security researcher Chaman Thapa, also known as chr13 claims that the flaw resides in 'Notes' section of the most popular social networking site - Facebook, that could allow anyone to ... | Cyber_Attack |
Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Devices Vulnerable to Hackers | https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/satellite-communication-satcom-devices.html | The growing threat of cyber-attacks and network hacking has reached the satellite-space sector, posing a growing challenge to the satellite operators. Because the satellite system are the critical components for the Nation to a modern military, they have become an attractive target of cyber attacks.
A security firm un... | Cyber_Attack |
German Aerospace Center targeted by Self-Destructing Spyware | https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/Spyware-german-aerospace-center-cyber-espionage.html | It's not so far when Germany confirmed its biggest Data theft in the country's history with the usernames and passwords of some 18 million email accounts stolen and compromised by Hackers, and now German space research center has been reportedly targeted in a cyber attack.
The new story broke by the German press, Der ... | Cyber_Attack |
APT Groups Return - Chinese Hackers Resume Cyber Espionage Operations | https://thehackernews.com/2014/04/apt-groups-return-chinese-hackers.html | Year back, one of the largest "Advanced Persistent Threat" (APT) hacking groups received widespread attention from the media and from the U.S. government. APT Groups are China's cyber espionage units and they won't stop their espionage operation, despite being exposed last year.
Yes, APT hacking groups, APT1 and APT12... | Cyber_Attack |
Philips Smart TVs vulnerable to Screen Hijack and Cookie Theft | https://thehackernews.com/2014/03/philips-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-screen_29.html | Previous articles on The Hacker News have highlighted that How Internet of Things (IoT) opens your home to cyber threats.
Recently the security researchers from vulnerability research firm ReVuln published a video demonstration shows that Philips Smart TV is prone to cyber attacks by hackers.
According to the researc... | Cyber_Attack |
Learn How SolarWinds Log & Event Manager (LEM) helps you to keep your Network Secure | https://thehackernews.com/2014/03/learn-how-solarwinds-log-event-manager.html | So, How do you currently monitor your logs and events, including network, servers, databases, applications, your router, firewall or Windows servers? Obviously, If you have thousands of machines on your network.. It will become more complicated.
Due to the massive boom in the cyber attacks and security breaches that r... | Cyber_Attack |
AlienVault Unified Security Management: Real-Time Threat Detection Starting on Day 1 | https://thehackernews.com/2014/03/alienvault-unified-security-management.html | IT Infrastructure of organizations is growing ever more distributed, complex and difficult to manage. To manage such networks, a log management solution is not enough.
The AlienVault Unified Security Management™ (USM) platform is the perfect solution to help manage the flood of information and analyze it in real time,... | Cyber_Attack |
Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets | https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/pony-botnet-steals-220000-from-multiple.html | Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You.
A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies.
The researchers at the security firm, Trustwave have uncove... | Cyber_Attack |
ZeuS Trojan variant Targets Salesforce accounts and SaaS Applications | https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/Salesforce-malware-attack-zeus-trojan.html | Zeus, a financially aimed Banking Trojan that comes in many different forms and flavors, is capable to steal users' online-banking credentials once installed. This time, an infamous Zeus Trojan has turned out to be a more sophisticated piece of malware that uses web-crawling action.
Instead of going after Banking cred... | Cyber_Attack |
Snowden used web crawler tool to access and download 1.7 million Secret NSA Files | https://thehackernews.com/2014/02/snowden-used-web-crawler-tool-to-access.html | National Security Agency (NSA) – the one that had ruled over the privacy of the entire world from countries to individuals, the one with master access to read anyone's data, intruded into large fiber networks, and can target anyone, at any time, at any place; but lapsed somewhere in protecting its own privacy and secur... | Cyber_Attack |
MediaWiki Remote Code Execution vulnerability leaves Wikipedia open for Cyber attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/mediawiki-remote-code-execution.html | The Encyclopedia giant WIKIPEDIA has been found vulnerable to remote code execution because of a critical flaw in the MediaWiki software.
Wikipedia is a name which has become a major source of information for all of us. It has webpages on almost every topic you need to search.
This giant is powered by an open source ... | Cyber_Attack |
Israeli Defense computer hacked in Spear Phishing Attack | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/israeli-defense-computer-hacked-in.html | Hackers broke into an Israeli defense ministry computer via an email attachment tainted with malicious software.
Reuters reported Israeli Defense is the latest illustrious victim of the Spear Phishing Attack, and hackers penetrated into an Israeli defense ministry computer using a malicious email as a vector.
Aviv Ra... | Cyber_Attack |
100,000 Refrigerators and other home appliances hacked to perform cyber attack | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/100000-refrigerators-and-other-home.html | Have you given shed to Zombies in your house? No???? May be you have no idea about it. After Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles, Tablets…. Now its turn of your home appliances to be a weapon or a victim of cyber war.
Recently Security Researchers from Proofpoint found more than 100,000 Smart TVs, Refrigerator, and o... | Cyber_Attack |
Small satellite terminals (VSAT) are vulnerable to Cyber attack | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/small-satellite-terminals-vsat-are.html | The Military Units that rely on very small aperture terminals (VSATs) for satellite communications in remote areas are vulnerable to cyber attack.
Researchers from cyber intelligence company IntelCrawler recently identified nearly 3 million VSATs, many of them in the United States, and found that about 10,000 of them ... | Cyber_Attack |
Rogue software update cause Malware attack on Japanese Nuclear Power Plant | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/rogue-software-update-cause-malware_9.html | The most critical and worst target of a State-sponsored cyber-attacks could be Hospitals, Dams, Dykes and Nuclear power stations and this may cause military conflicts between countries.
According to Japan Today, The Monju nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan was accidentally targeted by a malware on 2nd January, when ... | Cyber_Attack |
Staysure Hacked, Credit Card details of 93,000 Customers stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2014/01/Staysure-hacked-credit-card-data-breach.html | Staysure, a UK based Insurance company has suffered a massive data breach. More than 93,000 customers' sensitive financial data may have been compromised by unknown hackers.
We became aware of the problem on November 14, and quickly informed the relevant card issuing bodies and subsequently The Financial Conduct Author... | Cyber_Attack |
Hacker threatens to sell data of 3.7 Million Israeli Bank Customers, demands extortion money in Bitcoin | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/hacker-Israeli-Bank-botnet-malware-extortion-bitcoin.html | Data breaches and security incidents are a constant in the headlines these days. Hackers and cyber criminals are motivated by status or money and finding new innovative and more creative attacks to achieve this.
One of them are, Digital Bank robbery - where the thieves didn't need masks and guns to pull off the job, a... | Cyber_Attack |
'The Washington Post' compromised 3rd time in the last 3 years | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/the-washington-post-compromised-3rd.html | Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I'm writing it is still not clear the extension of the attack neither an estimation of the losses.
Mandiant reported the incident to The Washingt... | Cyber_Attack |
BIOS Malware that can remotely destroy any computer, NSA claimed | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/bios-malware-that-can-remotely-destroy_16.html | During a CBS Interview show "60 Minutes", The National Security Agency (NSA) officials claimed that China has developed a BIOS based malware that can remotely destroy any computer.
Obviously NSA is struggling to repair its image and in an effort to justify their extensive Surveillance programs, The NSA Director Genera... | Cyber_Attack |
The Evolution of Cyber Threat; Interview with IntelCrawler's Researchers | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/the-evolution-of-cyber-threat-interview.html | Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big data pool of over 3, 000, 000, 000 IPv4 and over 200, 000, 000 domain names, w... | Cyber_Attack |
Chinese Hackers spied on European Diplomats during recent G20 meetings | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/chinese-hackers-spied-on-european.html | Security firm FireEye has released a new report detailing cyber espionage attacks on European Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) during recent G20 meetings by Chinese Hackers.
According to FireEye's researcher Nart Villeneuve, hackers infiltrated the computer networks of five European foreign ministries by sending ema... | Cyber_Attack |
Security Risks of FTP and Benefits of Managed File Transfer | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/security-risks-of-ftp-and-benefits-of.html | File transfer services such as FTP or HTTP has been the most common way of file transfer for business requirements. Typically what a file transfer means is that a file transfer protocol such as FTP or HTTP is used to send the stream of bits stored as a single unit in a file system including file name, file size, timest... | Cyber_Attack |
Biggest American Bank 'JPMorgan Chase' hacked; 465,000 card users' data stolen | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/JPMorgan-Chase-bank-card-hacked_5.html | JPMorgan Chase, one of the world's biggest Banks has recently announced that it was the victim of a cyber attack and warned round 465,000 of its holders of prepaid cash cards on the possible exposure of their personal information.
In the Security Breach that took place on the bank's website www.ucard.chase.com in July... | Cyber_Attack |
DDoS Attacks originated from thousands of .EDU and .GOV WordPress Blogs | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/ddos-attacks-originated-from-thousands.html | In a recent cyber attack on a Forum site, thousands of outdated legitimate WordPress blogs were abused to perform DDOS attacks using previously known vulnerabilities.
After analyzing the Log file from the victim's server, we have noticed many Wordpress CMS based educational (.EDU) and Government (.GOV) websites from w... | Cyber_Attack |
Malware that transfers stolen data using Inaudible Audio signals | https://thehackernews.com/2013/12/Malware-Inaudible-Audio-signals-badbios-virus.html | If you think that a computer which is not connected to a network, doesn't have any USB sticks attached to it and doesn't accept any kind of electronic connection requests are reasonably safe against hackers and from all the malware, then you are Wrong.
Here we have something shocking update that Some German Scientists ... | Cyber_Attack |
NSA infected more than 50,000 computer networks with Malware | https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/nsa-infected-more-than-50000-computer.html | The NSA has the ability to trace "anyone, anywhere, anytime". In September we reported that how NSA and GCHQ planted malware via LinkedIn and Slashdot traffic to hack largest telecom company Belgacom's Engineers.
Yesterday, a Dutch newspaper has published a new secret NSA document provided by former intelligence emplo... | Cyber_Attack |
FBI warns that Anonymous Hackers has been hacking US Government for almost a year | https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/fbi-warns-that-anonymous-hackers-has.html | The FBI is warning that members of the hacktivist group Anonymous hacking collective have secretly accessed US Government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago.
The Hacktivists have exploited a flaw in Adobe applications to compromise the target systems and install softw... | Cyber_Attack |
China: 'We are ready for International cooperation to deal with cyber security Challenges' | https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/china-we-are-ready-for-international.html | Yesterday at Stanford University in the United States, Cyber Security Experts and Leaders from more than 40 countries gathered to talk about the cyberspace security problems and cooperation among countries.
The need for international cooperation in cybersecurity is evident, due to the nature of cyberspace itself. Cybe... | Cyber_Attack |
Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World | https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/rise-in-website-defacement-attacks-by.html | Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world.
Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out of all these targets,... | Cyber_Attack |
Finland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs networks hit by sophisticated Malware attack | https://thehackernews.com/2013/11/Finland-Ministry-Foreign-Affairs-malware-espionage-red-october.html | Finnish commercial broadcaster MTV3 reports that the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affair networks has been targeted in a four-year-long cyber espionage operation.
Finland's foreign minister said, "I can confirm there has been a severe and large hacking in the ministry's data network,"
A large scale spying attack targe... | Cyber_Attack |
British Baptist Minister's son charged with hacking US Army and Nasa Computer Systems | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/british-baptist-ministers-son-charged.html | Son of a Baptist Minister, 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, NASA and other federal agencies.
He was arrested Friday at his home in Stradishall, England by the National Crime Agency and according to the indictment alleges Love and his unnam... | Cyber_Attack |
Israeli Road Control System hacked, caused Traffic jam on Haifa Highway | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/israeli-road-control-system-hacked.html | Israel is considered one of the most advanced country in cyber security, but at the same time is a privileged target for hostile governments intent in sabotage and cyber espionage on his technology.
Yesterday, Cybersecurity experts revealed that a major artery in Israel's national road network located in the northern ... | Cyber_Attack |
South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/south-korea-hit-by-android-trojan.html | Last Tuesday, The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country.
That Malware is collecting location data and IP addresses of infected users and according to experts, ma... | Cyber_Attack |
New Phishing attack targets Italian Postal and Financial service again | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/new-phishing-attack-targets-italian.html | A phishing attack is a complex combination of technology and psychology. There are numerous ways in which people are being made fools and they can be conned by hitting on unsecured website links.
Sophos experts detected this week an intriguing case of phishing against the Italian postal service Poste Italiane, the sch... | Cyber_Attack |
13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback' | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/13-anonymous-members-indicted-and.html | A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback"
Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack, including those belongi... | Cyber_Attack |
Adobe Gets Hacked; Hackers Steal 2.9 million Adobe Customers accounts | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/adobe-gets-hacked-hackers-steal-29.html | Hackers broke into Adobe Systems' internal network on Thursday, stealing personal information on 2.9 million customers and the source code for several of Adobe's most popular products. This an absolutely massive blow to Adobe, especially their reputation.
Adobe, which makes Photoshop and other programs, revealed that ... | Cyber_Attack |
World War C report - Motives behind State Sponsored Cyber Attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/world-war-c-report-motives-behind-state_3.html | Nation-state driven cyber attacks are routinely conducted on a global scale to defend national sovereignty and project national power. We are living in the cyber era, human conflict is involving also the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace. As never before disputes take place with blows of bits, militias of every g... | Cyber_Attack |
Importance of Logs and Log Management for IT Security | https://thehackernews.com/2013/10/importance-of-logs-and-log-management.html | IT Security is the name of the game and no matter how big or small the size of your organization, you will always invest enough on securing certain aspects of your IT network. In many organizations, it starts with monitoring your network for vulnerabilities that may enter the network to access potentially sensitive inf... | Cyber_Attack |
16-Year-Old Teenager arrested for World's biggest cyber attack ever | https://thehackernews.com/2013/09/16-year-old-teenager-arrested-for.html | 16-Year-Old Teenager has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the World's biggest largest DDoS attacks against the Dutch anti-spam group Spamhaus.
The teenager, whose name is unknown at this point, was arrested by British police in April, but details of his arrest were just leaked to the British press on Thur... | Cyber_Attack |
Thousands of Wordpress blogs compromised to perform DDOS attack | https://thehackernews.com/2013/09/thousands-of-wordpress-blogs.html | There is currently a Mega cyber attack campaign being launched on a large number of WordPress websites across the Internet.
In April, 2012 we reported about a large distributed brute force attack against millions of WordPress sites were occurring, out of that hackers are successful to compromise 90,000 servers to crea... | Cyber_Attack |
Internet Explorer zero-day exploit used watering hole attacks to target Japanese users | https://thehackernews.com/2013/09/internet-explorer-zero-day-exploit-used.html | Attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability CVE-2013-3893 in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser and served them on compromised popular Japanese news websites.
According to FireEye, at least three major Japanese media websites were compromised in watering hole attacks, dubbed Operation DeputyDog, appears to target... | Cyber_Attack |
FBI used Anonymous and Lulzsec Hackers to attack foreign governments | https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/fbi-used-anonymous-and-lulzsec-hackers.html | Sentencing for former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as "Sabu" , has again been delayed. Monsegur pleaded guilty to a dozen criminal counts two years prior and stands to face more a maximum sentence of more than 124 years.
Another Lulzsec Hacker Jeremy Hammond has claimed that the FBI used Sabu to ... | Cyber_Attack |
Thousands of Israeli websites hacked by Pakistani hackers for Palestine supports | https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/thousands-of-israeli-websites-hacked-by.html | A cyber attack campaign is ongoing and targeting thousands of Israeli websites by Pakistani hackers, in support of Palestine people.
They had already infiltrated reportedly 650 Israel websites listen on Pastebin and upload their page with custom messages on servers. The hacker claimed and told 'The Hacker News' that th... | Cyber_Attack |
Chinese Hackers Caught by US water control system Honeypots | https://thehackernews.com/2013/08/Chinese-hackers-APT1-honeypot-water-control-system.html | A notorious Chinese hacker collective known as APT1 or Comment Crew, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake United States water control system i.e. known as a Honeypot.
Kyle Wilhoit, a researcher with security company Trend Micro has just revealed the details at BlackHat ... | Cyber_Attack |
Cyber attack hits Istanbul Airport passport control system | https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/Istanbul-airport-cyber-attack-virus.html | The passport control system at Istanbul Ataturk Airport International departure terminal was under cyber attack on Friday, while another airport in the Turkish largest city was also affected.
Passengers stood in lines for hours and plane departures were delayed, because cyberattack shutdown passport control systems at... | Cyber_Attack |
Beware of Fraudulent Sites, phishing for Twitter accounts | https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/hacking-twitter-account-phishing-attack.html | There's a scam spreading through Twitter Direct messages (DMs) and fake emails, appealing users to visit a fake twitter phishing site i.e "twittler.com". Scam uses a hijacked Twitter account to send out direct messages that appear completely legitimate.
Security blogger, Janne Ahlberg blogged about this new phishing sc... | Cyber_Attack |
Internet Explorer vulnerability exposed by Google Researcher used in targeted attacks | https://thehackernews.com/2013/07/Internet-Explorer-vulnerability-exploit-script.html | Google and Microsoft are at each other's throats again. In a recent statement, Microsoft says hackers have been actively exploiting a vulnerability that was publicly disclosed by a Google researcher, Tavis Ormandy.
Microsoft addressed the vulnerability in its monthly "Patch Tuesday" package of fixes for July. Tavis Or... | Cyber_Attack |
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