Romanian man has been arrested and charged with conspiracy relating to his involvement in a prolific ATM malware campaign.
Emanual Leahu, 30, was arrested in the western city of Bacău, Romania by the London Regional Fraud Team (LRFT) London police run by the City of London Police on Tuesday...
Showing posts with label Latest Hacking News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Latest Hacking News. Show all posts
Friday, 7 October 2016
Spotify Free Service Caught Dropping Malware on User Browsers
MANY SPOTIFY USERS ARE COMPLAINING THAT ITS FREEMIUM SERVICE IS INFECTING THEIR BROWSERS WITH MALWARE.
Last year, the music and video streaming giant Spotify was in the bad news when Russian hackers were suspected to have hacked some of its users’ accounts or when the company’s...
Two INDISHELL Hacker group’s members arrested at Noida
Two Hackers of the group “Indishell” which is located in India has been arrested on Saturday after the investigation by the Police at Noida (India). The accused who was arrested is a B-Tech Student from Computer Science actually they have hacked a e-commerce website which provides mobile recharges,...
Over 32 Million Twitter Accounts Possibly Hacked
Twitter has fallen victim to a serious cyber-attack just a month after the previous mega-hacks. But this is not an everyday hack; the perpetrators managed to get the IDs of over 32 million Twitter users.
Such reports usually emerge from the dark web. However,...
Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Watch Out Gamers: Hacked Steam Accounts Distributing Malware
STEAM USERS ARE AGAIN UNDER THE RADAR OF CYBER CRIMINALS — THIS TIME, HACKED STEAM ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN FOUND DISTRIBUTING REMOTE ACCESS TROJAN (RAT).
Previously we informed our readers about the hacking of Steam accounts. Now a Reddit user is claiming that some of these hacked accounts...
Monday, 3 October 2016
South Korea says their military cyber command was hacked
SOUTH KOREA SAYS THEIR MILITARY CYBER COMMAND WAS HACKED WITH A MALICIOUS CODE – USUAL CULPRIT: NORTH KOREA.
South Korea says its military cyber command center was hacked last month after officials found a malicious code in the system. It is unclear how the code got into the system but its target...
New Lockscreen Ransomware Targeting Android Devices
SYMANTEC SECURITY CLAIMS ANDROID LOCKSCREEN RANSOMWARE USING PSEUDORANDOM PASSCODE TO ENSURE VICTIM PAYS THE RANSOM.
Android Lockscreen ransomware has been around for quite some time now but the new version of these is far more powerful and resilient. Previously the ransomware used to lock the...
Meet Linux.Mirai Trojan, a DDoS nightmare
LINUX-BASED DEVICES ARE AGAIN UNDER THE RADAR. THIS TIME, CYBER CRIMINALS ARE INFECTING THEM WITH LINUX.MIRAI TROJAN TO CARRY LARGE-SCALE DDOS ATTACKS.
The IT security researchers at Russian firm Doctor Web have discovered yet another trojan that is specifically developed to target Linux-based...
Sunday, 2 October 2016
How To Increase Your Web Browing Speed. 3 Ways to hack DNS, which will increase your Web Browsing Speed
There is perhaps nothing more painful than having a slow internet connection in the modern world and it is even more painful if you have good bandwidth but it does not capitalizes the full potential of the bandwidth. One good way to make your browsing experience faster and more reliable is by hacking...
Anyone can use Facebook servers for DDoS attacks: Vulnerability Exposed
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are ever increasing and the attackers are using novel and sophisticated ways to carry out their malicious acts. A new way is to use Facebook ‘Notes’ as a mechanism to trigger DDoS attack using the image, <img>, tag according to Chaman Thapa, known...
FBI admits “We have the ability to hack webcam without knowing you”
Most popular investigation agency “FBI” can easily activate the computer’s webcam without any user intervention.
At the time, when we turn on our webcam, there is usually a light which indicates us about the status of cam, but FBI can easily by -pass that and can switch on the webcam without turning...
Saturday, 1 October 2016
Cisco Battles Shadow Broker Exploits
Cisco has swung into action to combat a hacker group’s exploitation of vulnerabilities in its firmware. The group, known as the “Shadow Brokers,” released online malware and other exploits it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, which is believed to have ties to the United States National...
Surviving the Internet’s Troll Apocalypse
Social media has sharpened humans’ age-old appetite for public shaming, providing a stage and unlimited seating for a seemingly unending stream of immorality plays. Those who share even the simplest identifying details about themselves are vulnerable to being pushed into the glare of the spotlight.
The...
Hacking Elections Is Easy, Study Finds
question whether hackers will influence the 2016 elections in the United States — only how much they’ll be able to sway them.
Leaked emails already have cost a Democratic Party chairperson her job, and the FBI last month issued a flash warning that foreign cyberadversaries had breached two state election...
Fancy Bears hacked MH17 crash investigators with spear-phishing campaign
NEW SPEAR-PHISHING CAMPAIGN TARGETS BELLINGCAT RESEARCHERS TRYING TO INVESTIGATE FLIGHT MH17 CRASH – RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE TECHNIQUE IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS BEEN USED BY FANCY BEARS HACKERS IN THEIR PREVIOUS HACKS.
The Bellngcat agency’s journalists are trying to investigate what actually caused...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
World’s largest 1 Tbps DDoS Attack launched from 152,000 hacked Smart Devices
Do you know — Your Smart Devices may have inadvertently participated in a record-breaking largest cyber attack that Internet has just witnessed.
If you own a smart device like Internet-connected televisions, cars, refrigerators or thermostats, you might already be part of abotnet of millions of infected...
Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Russian hackers tried to disrupt UK general election, security sources say
Russian hackers reportedly tried to disrupt last year’s general election, in what is thought to be the first known cyberattack on the British political system.
The group known as Fancy Bears planned to target every Whitehall server, including the Home Office, Foreign Office and Ministry...