A hacker who claims to be the ally of the ISIS terrorist group managed to hack the official website of Tsinghua University, China’s one of the most high-profile universities. The hacker left a deface page containing Arabic language verses from Islamic scripture accompanied by Arabic music. The website (tsinghua.edu.cn) otherwise displays links to departmental information and […]
A new Linux malware has been discovered which aims to help criminals steal data and spy on the PCs of infected users. The renowned IT security software developers Dr.Web from Russia have discovered a new malware targeting Linux users with the ability to embed itself with JPEG file format and send a screenshot of user’s […]
Government Officials under Attack: Hackers Who targeted CIA Director now reach the White House The hacking group Crackas With Attitude have been targeting officials since October and turned out to be a nightmare for US government officials. After compromising CIA Director John Brennan’s AOL email account, now the group have claimed another high-profile victim- John […]
The computer networks installed at the main airport in Kiev, Ukraine, have been identified as containing malware. The discovery was made public by a report from Reuters. The report stated that the IT network of Boryspil International Airport, which is located nearby Kiev, has been infected by malware. As per the report, the IT network […]
Short Bytes: Annoyed by GitHub’s outdated Issues Tracker feature, a CloudFlare developer has written an open letter to GitHub, suggesting the website to address the issues. Notably, the Issues Tracker feature is very rigid in nature and lacks the ability to pass a feedback on the service itself. At the moment, 1192 users have signed this open later. […]
Only Latest Technology PCs will run Windows 10 – Confirms Microsoft Now this can be termed as nothing else but a bombshell by Microsoft. It has been revealed that the latest chips from Intel or any other manufacturer won’t be supporting the older versions of Windows, so Windows 10 will only work on latest PCs. […]
Short Bytes: As new mobile threats continue to emerge, the white hat hackers are busy busting the ways your phone can be hacked to safeguard the public from these attacks. In the recent episode of Phreaked Out by Motherboard, we’ll be looking closely into these different methods that challenge our internal security. As more electronic devices […]
Dendroid is a HTTP RAT that is marketed as being transparent to the user and firmware interface, having a sophisticated PHP panel, and an application APK binder package. The seller markets Dendroid as offering many features that have never been seen before and comes with 24/7 support, all for a once off payment of $300 […]
A hacking tool discovered by analysts at F-Secure, which is capable of stealing information from a connected Windows machine. USB Cleaver seems to be designed to facilitate a targeted attack by gathering details that would be helpful in a later infiltration attempt. To use the application, user must install the application on his Android Smartphone […]
Turkish hackers target Russian banking website, mock the Russian SU-24 jet incident. A group of Turkish hackers going by the online handle WKPF hacked and defaced the official website of Russia’s Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Reconstruction and Development “Ekonombank.” The site was targeted last Monday in which the homepage was replaced with messages against Russia and […]
Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker, has detected a new threat against Linux users, the Linux.Ekocms.1 trojan, which includes special features that allow it to take screengrabs and record audio. Discovered four days ago, Linux.Ekocms is only the latest threat targeting Linux PCs, after the Linux.Encoder ransomware family and the Linux XOR DDoS malware had caused […]
Short Bytes: When we talk about the best Windows 10 web browsers, our list narrows down to Chrome, Firefox, Edge etc. Microsoft has invested heavily in Microsoft Edge and the results are reflected in the benchmark scores. However, Chrome manages to retain its spot as the best Windows 10 browser and Edge still needs some […]
Walmart-owned store patches hole, but it was open for nearly 2 years. Retailer Asda dragged its heels for nearly two years before finally this week tackling a set of security vulnerabilities reported to it by a UK consultant. Asda has acknowledged the flaws – which Paul Moore, who discovered them, argues offer up an account […]
A new variant of the infamous Tinba banking trojan has emerged in the wild and is targeting financial institutions in the Asia Pacific region. Even small threats can scare the giants, this is the case of Tinba, a small malware that continues to create serious problems for financial institutions. Tinba is a popular financial trojan, the fifth version is […]
Twitter is down. Yes, the social media giant’s website and mobile apps are inaccessible at the moment. Visitors to the website were greeted by a message telling them that “Something is technically wrong”. “Thanks for noticing,” the message reads. “We’re going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon.” Mobile apps as well as […]
Finnish fellow scores $10k bug bounty for reporting malformed HTML mess. Video A stored XSS vuln in Yahoo! Mail has netted Finnish researcher Jouko Pynnönen of Klikki a US$10,000 bug bounty. Pynnönen turned up the bug with a bit of old-fashioned brute force: he fed the system an HTML e-mail containing “all known HTML tags […]
At some point over the weekend, the official website of Belinda Carlisle was compromised, displaying banner ads for a Canadian Pharmacy page. Here’s the Google search result for “Belinda Carlisle” – note the “Site may have been hacked” warning from Google under the top result, which of course happens to be the website in question: Stats […]
This is how a $30 D-Link webcam can be converted into a backdoor. Researchers at US security firm Vectra Networks have hacked a ‘tiny’ D-Link web camera and demonstrated how it can be abused by cybercriminals and turned into a medium to steal data or for sending additional commands. In other words, they have shown how the […]
The official website of the Russian embassy in Israel was hacked and defaced by Azerbaijani hackers — Thanks to the words for war between the governments. On Sunday, a pro-Turkish hacking group from Azerbaijan targeted the site of the Russian embassy in Israel (russianembassy.org.il) and uploaded image of a Turkish flag on its homepage stated the […]
The Internet’s largest torrents platform Kickass faced major outage due to a series of powerful DDoS attacks by unknown hackers Kickass Torrents is the biggest torrent portal on the Internet. It is also listed in Alexa’s top 100 sites and therefore, it is often the target of DDoSing groups and cyber criminals from around the […]
LastPass Password Manager – renowned for being a secure vault for user’s passwords, has recently demonstrated vulnerabilities that could expose many users’ accounts. A phishing technique can easily and literally do the trick: a little more than a combination between software flaws and social engineering. Security researcher Sean Cassidy, who developed the phishing attack, claims […]