Azerbaijani Hackers have hacked NATO-Armenia and embassy websites in 40 countries giving a powerful reply to the Armenian hackers. The cyber war between Anti-Armenia Team from Azerbaijan and The Monte Melkonian Cyber Army (MMCA) from Armenia is getting more sophisticated with every passing day. Last month the MMCA leaked sensitive data from Azerbaijan Ministry servers and in reply, the Azerbaijani hackers have […]
If you receive an email claiming to have a ”new message” from Facebook just delete it because the attachment contains Nivdort malware Party is over for Facebook’s security team as a fresh wave of malware attacks has been launched. This time, the campaign is targeted against the e-commerce related users of Facebook because mainly businesses […]
The infamous hacktivists collective Anonymous has declared Michigan governor Rick Snyder guilty for the ongoing Flint water contamination crisis. On Wednesday, a statement was released by the Anonymous Intelligence Group, which is associated with the hacktivists collective. It read: “Anonymous Activates #OpFlint…And Yes It’s About Time!” The statement was followed by a video posted by […]
The internet has as many downsides as well as upsides but it’s the lack of knowledge about dangers on users’ behalf makes it easier for hackers to go about their business — Let’s take a look at some of the best hacking tools and scripts. Hacking can be used both for malicious purposes as well […]
LeChiffre is yet another ransomware that recently has been observed to cause some major damage (in Mumbai – read more here). Not much material about it is available, so we decided to take a look. It is different than most of the ransomware present nowadays. Instead of spreading to users and automatically infecting their machines, […]
Attackers are adding unauthorized code at the top of infected websites, over 3,500 8sites already infected. Alarms are ringing in Symantec’s offices, as its research team has discovered a massive Web injection campaign that’s currently infecting Web servers around the Internet. According to telemetry data received from Symantec security products, the company’s staff has identified […]
In recent variants of the infamous DNS-changer adware we have found that the coders use a particularly interesting method to bypass the default restrictions imposed for executing Powershell scripts. Execution restrictions To protect Windows users, Microsoft has chosen not to allow the execution of Powershell scripts by default. The default setting for the ExecutionPolicy is […]
In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, now new information are emerging on the operations. Someone believes it was a surgical ops others accuse Feds of dragnet surveillance. In 2013 the FBI agents seized TorMail, at the time the most popular dark web email services. The US law enforcement agency seized the TorMail database during in concomitants of the […]
The people come to the house and demand their lost phone back from this couple probably because of some error in phone-finding apps Christina Lee and Michael Saba were a happy couple living together in the suburbs of Atlanta. But, from February 2015 onwards their lives were made a misery. On day 1, an angry family member […]
The official web portal of founder and first supreme leader of Iran Ruhollah Khomeini has been hacked by Saudi hackers While tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia are reaching new heights, hackers are targeting cyber infrastructure on both sides. That’s what happened few hours ago when a Saudi hacker going with the online handle of Crazy-3r3r hacked […]
ShortBytes: FossBytes brings you the list of the best Cortana features and commands available for the Windows users. You can search for anything from facts to finance, weather to work, a calendar to currency and much more on Cortana. What is Cortana? Windows 10 Cortana is a personal assistant service by Microsoft. Cortana helps in finding […]
Scans for Fortinet devices have intensified. An unknown group has been scanning the Internet for old Fortinet equipment that includes a secret SSH backdoor account that can be exploited to take over the devices. Ten days ago, an anonymous user posted a full disclosure regarding a hidden account that was included in Fortinet’s FortiOS, on versions […]
It should have been a great week for the Irish Lottery, with the largest jackpot (12 million euros) for 18 months up for grabs.
However, things didn’t run entirely smoothly in the run-up to the Wednesday night draw.
Two weeks ago, the Comodo Threat Research Lab discovered a malware campaign aimed at businesses and consumers using the WhatsApp mobile messaging service. That attack used official looking emails masquerading as WhatsApp content. Now Comodo’s researchers have identified a similar phishing campaign targeting Facebook users, which it believes was created by the same group behind […]
Short Bytes: Participating in a hackathon and after a 20-hours long coding session, two programmers have written a python-based programming language called TrumpScript. This language is something Donal Trump would approve of. Take a look at the rules and syntax of the language and know more. Sam Shadwell and Chris Brown, two computer science students, […]
Back in 2013, the FBI seized TorMail, one of the most popular dark web email services, and shortly after started to rifle through the server’s contents. At the time, researchers suspected the agency had also deployed a network investigative technique (NIT)—the FBI’s term for a hacking tool—to infect users of the site. Now, confirmation of […]
Highly privileged account could be used to hack customers’ networks, researchers warn. A company that supplies audio-visual and building control equipment to the US Army, the White House, and other security-conscious organizations built a deliberately concealed backdoor into dozens of its products that could possibly be used to hack or spy on users, security researchers […]
GCHQ insists on shooting itself in the foot with backdoored VoIP encryption protocol, developed in-house by CESG. Britain’s intelligence agency, GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters), has already developed a phone encryption protocol that contains a backdoor, as the government has been recently asking companies to provide. During the past year, both the US and UK governments […]
A country who has been spying on every computer in the world can’t protect voter data of its own citizens. Recent chronicles and newly found excerpts that reveal questionable and suspicious voting records of millions of American citizens are uploaded to a sneaky website on the dark web. The person responsible for discovering the website […]
If you visit MSN.com there is a chance your PC has been affected with a malware — Outlook users should also check for it as upon signing out from their email they are redirected to MSN home page. Once again, Microsoft becomes the victim of malicious malvertising, and the culprit behind these misleading ads is […]
Exclusive: An Apple fan has found a bug in AI.Type Keyboard on iOS allowing anyone to open All Premium Features For FREE Apple’s App Store is full of handy and innovative apps that make the phone using experience much better for the everyday user. They make the simplest things look so attractive that the entire experience of […]