Spammers leverage news of a new Pope and other world events
Major world events always bring with them an upsurge in related spam and the election and inauguration of a new Pope is no exception.
Major world events always bring with them an upsurge in related spam and the election and inauguration of a new Pope is no exception.
Protection and remediation tips for Mac OS X users targeted by a Trojan adware plugin called Yontoo hidden behind movie trailer and other media playing links, generating money for criminals exploiting online ad schemes.
Syrian Electronic Army is back in news with another high profile hack, this time three official Twitter accounts of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) which include BBCArabic, BBC Weather and BBC Radio Ulster have been hacked and taken over by the hackers supporting Syrian president Bashar ul Assad. On their official forum and Facebook accounts, Syrian Electronic Army explained […]
A security researcher has raveled some fantastic results over the percentage of vulnerable networks and devices around the world. His technique as a hacker was pretty straightforward and was a big time a matter of concern for all the people around the world. Let’s then see what the researcher found through his researches and how was he […]
Charaf Anons of Anonymous Algeria has contacted me with more of his defacement, this time 192 websites from UK and Korea have been targeted in support of a free Palestine. Hacker left his deface page along with a simple note on all hacked websites “Hacked by Charaf Anons of Anonymous Algeria, Long Live Palestine. ” Links of targeted […]
The new ESET blog format must be striking a real chord with people. At any rate, job offers are just pouring in. Except that they don’t seem to be jobs for security bloggers, or for web developers like the team that maintains this site.
Michael William Cook, 17, of Acworth, Georgia has been charged for hacking cell phones and distributing private pictures on porn sites. 9News reports that the teenager was arrested on eight counts of cruelty to children and one count of sexually exploiting children. Police has informed the media that Cool was arrested on Wednesday from his […]
On 17th March 2013, hackers from Digital Boys Underground Team had hacked the official sub-domain of Waterways Experiment Station (WES) dealing with U.S Tri-Service Transportation running under U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Research and Development Center. The Waterways Experiment Station (WES) is headquarters for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC). Part of […]
Well known hacker Dr.SHA6H has hacked and defaced the official website of Adidas sportswear (www.adidas.co.il) website designated for Israel. The hacker contacted me via Twitter and explained that reason for defaced Adidas Israel site is to mark protest against all the companies working and supporting Israel. The site is left with deface page along with a deface […]
Banking crisis in Cyprus is now being used in a spam campaign promoting the Blackhole exploit kit and the Win32/Cridex Trojan.
A Russian security researcher Nikita Tarakanov has found Huawei’s 3G and 4G devices vulnerable to the hackers. He has reported this matter to Black hat Europe. According to the researcher, Huawei’s sever update is one of the tools for hackers to lay down an attack on the systems. The server update was made in Netherland […]
Hackers from Pak Cyber Eaglez (PCE) have came up with their new hack in which total 4 Nigerian government ministry websites have been hacked and defaced. The hacked sites include country’s Ministry of Foreign of Affairs, National Malaria Control Program, Ministry of National Planning Commission and website of National Research Institute for Chemical Technology. Hackers left their […]
Hacker going with the handle of Dr.SHA6H has hacked and defaced THE official websites of Mitsubishi & Hyundai motors designated for Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Both websites were left with defaces pages and pro Islamic messages and note against all the governments of the world. Hacked by Dr.SHA6H!!! I am a person against all the world’s government. Our motto: No […]
Technical analysis of Power Loader, a special bot builder for making downloaders for other malware families and yet another example of specialization and modularity in malware production.
#OpIsrael is at its peak as Charaf Anons of Anonymous Algeria adds more spice to it by hacking more 1600 websites from all over the world, where almost 906 websites are belong to China. Some are private, some are educational and some government owned. Hacker who contacted me on Twitter explained that reason for hacking the sites is […]
A group of hackers going with the handle of Syrian Revolution Electronic Suite (SRES) has hacked and defaced the official website of Kremlin’s envoy to the Far East (www.dfo.gov.ru), requesting Russians to put a grip on their government and stop providing weapons to Syrian government. The hackers left their deface page along with a message on hacked website […]
Metropolitan Police Department is planning to setup cybercrime classes for investigators at a local police station to avoid any kind of wrong arrest and misunderstanding. The classes are planned to avoid unusual circumstances like last year when four innocent men were arrested for spreading virus, later it was discovered that their computers were hacked and used as […]
Samsung has launched its new Samsung Galaxy S 4 handset and will soon throw it in the market. This news has given scammers and cyber criminals, the leverage to go all knotty with their claims. Earlier in the day today, I fell upon a scam on Facebook which said that Samsung is giving out […]
Answers to common questions about tax season scams in America and advice about fending off the malicious activity that seeks to exploit tax matters.
Matthew Keys who is the deputy social media editor of Reuters has been recently charged for being involved in an anon attack on a website which was conducted by Anonymous hacker’s group. The connection of Matthews with the website is that it belongs to his former employer and his attorneys briefed out that he communicated […]
The hackers from Syrian Electronic Army have hacked and defaced the official website of Human Rights Watch (HRW) (www.hrw.org) along with 3 of its Twitter accounts. Syrian Electronic Army known as hardcore supporters of Syrian president Bashar ul Assad, defaced the site an hour ago, leaving their deface page which redirects the sites to army’s […]