FireEye Threat Intelligence analysts have discovered a new phishing attack carried by a Chinese group using legitimate service like dropbox. Analysts found the cyber group (which is unnamed at the moment but some researchers term them as “admin@338”) sending emails with links to dropbox containing documents. The documents in reality were having payload malware known […]
Short Bytes: The Boston Consulting Group has released its 10th edition of the top 50 most innovative companies in the world. The list is based on an international survey of 1,500 company executives. Take a look the complete list below. Earlier this week, Boston Consulting Group released its annual list of the top 50 most innovative […]
J D Wetherspoon, a famous pub chain in Ireland and the UK has announced that they’ve faced a massive data breach when hackers steal sensitive data from their database. The breach took place in June 2015 in which about 657,000 customers had their financial data stolen. The Financial Times reported that stolen data contained names, […]
The latest Facebook scam asks users to download a video player — The price for this player is your login credentials. Facebook is gearing up itself to compete with YouTube in the online video streaming business and there’s no doubt that it is doing good but, there’s a problem with the social media giant and […]
Linux is considered as one of the most secure operating systems — However, there’s a trojan attacking specifically those on Linux. Linux users could be in danger of getting attacked by a powerful and picky Trojan as a Russian anti-virus maker, Dr.Web, has found a Trojan which is aimed towards Linux users known as Rekoobe. […]
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Short Bytes: Just like every year, Google has just released its annual End Of The Year lists. This list contains 2015’s top movies, books, music, and TV shows on Google Play. Read more to know the top 10 in each category. Google has released its annual End Of The Year lists. While the listings on the […]
A Sharjah-based Investbank has been asked for ransom by a hacker who breached into bank’s database and has threatened the bank if the ransom is not paid all the information on the database would be leaked online. The name of the hacker who breached into the bank’s database is “Huba”. After stealing the data, the […]
The poorly thought-out and crude surveillance technique could have a devastating effect on the country’s internet security. In less than a month, Kazakhstan will begin enforcing a new law that requires every internet user in the country to install a backdoor, allowing the government to conduct surveillance. In a brief statement (translated), KazakhTelecom, the country’s […]
Short Bytes: In the past, time and again, people have called the scripting languages a root cause of software vulnerability and the latest Veracode results prove the same. Using a unique metric called Flaw Density per MB, Veracode has found that PHP is one of the major causes of software vulnerabilities. If we start investigating the […]
Surreptitious attacks often prey on people visiting legitimate sites. A new wave of crypto ransomware is hitting Windows users courtesy of poorly secured websites. Those sites are infected with Angler, the off-the-shelf, hack-by-numbers exploit kit that saves professional criminals the hassle of developing their own attack. The latest round is especially nasty because before encryption, […]
Cyber criminals have turned their attention towards x-rated sites and are using their most favorite tool- malvertising. Malvertising is short-term used for malicious advertising. The purpose of malvertising is to infect the devices of visitors with malware. In the latest malvertising campaign, criminals have targeted numerous popular adult websites such as PornHub, xHamster, DrTuber, IcePorn, […]
Ponmocup is one of the oldest botnet that infected more than 15 million machines across the years, but many experts still ignore it. Ponmocup is one of the largest and oldest botnets in circulation, but many security experts still ignore it. According to the experts at Fox IT, the botnet is underestimated and infected across the years […]
The goal of BDF is to patch executable binaries with user desired shellcode and continue normal execution of the prepatched state. First of all download the-backdoor-factory-master from here. Now unzip the-backdoor-factory-master .zip file. And save in your desktop Now move to the-backdoor-factory-master directory & install it. Now download putty.exe file and check whether this binary […]
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon says card data of 100 customers has been stolen from a database after it was hacked. “Very limited” credit and debit card information was accessed in the hack in June and it could not be used for fraud, CEO John Hutson said. Other personal details, including names and email addresses may […]
A HACKER WHO broke into a large bank in the United Arab Emirates made good on his threat to release customer data after the bank refused to pay a bitcoin ransom worth about $3 million. The hacker, who calls himself Hacker Buba, breached the network of a bank in Sharjah last month reportedly identified as […]
Short Bytes: Apple has made good on its promise to make Swift an open source programming language under the Apache License. The iPhone maker has also launched a dedicated website as Swift community’s main hub. Apple’s Swift programming language has become very popular among the programmers in recent years and managed to earn a respectable […]
The largest Anonymous Twitter account was found trolling the ISIS symporters with memes and photoshopped images. Anonymous is known for exposing social media accounts of users sympathetic to the so-called Islamic State group. The hacktivist group has so far shut down thousands of their Twitter accounts and other online platforms. On the other hand, pro-ISIS […]
In November 2015, the Open Whisper system launched protected voice calling and texting application for Android called “Signal” but soon after the massive appreciation, the company has decided to release a desktop version of this application. The application was made earlier for Apple users then for Android which is being used by Snowden himself, so obviously it […]
Google accused by EFF for Collecting Students Data via Chromebook. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, has lodged a complaint at the United States Federal Trade Commission/FTC accusing Google of storing students’ data without their permission. EFF claims that Google’s Chromebook invades students’ privacy through its default “sync” feature on the Google Chrome […]
After being an object of constant criticism universally by IT professionals for being volatile, unstable and unreliable, the time has come to bid farewell to Adobe Flash and welcome its new and improved version Animate. Adobe has renamed Flash Professional CC as Animate CC and moved the pivot to HTML5. Adobe tried its best to […]