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According to an official document from the FBI, a Russian gang has been involved in a breach of 1.2 billion login credentials. Furthermore, the records state the gang as “CyberVor” and have been charged with theft of 1.2 billion login credentials and half a billion email addresses. FBI’s investigations were based on the findings of […]
Short Bytes: Anonymous hacktivist group has just hacked an ISIS propaganda website on the dark web. Trolling ISIS and its supporters, the group has replaced it with an advertisement of a website selling drugs like Viagra and Prozac. Just a couple of days ago, we reported that ISIS is spreading its operations to the Darknet […]
DRIDEX is steadily regaining its footing in the US just over a month after its takedown orchestrated by US and UK law enforcement agencies. Taking down servers is a significant step in crippling botnets, but unless all infrastructure are destroyed and all threat actors are caught, threats like DRIDEX are bound to resurface. As such, it […]
SSH logins, server-side HTTPS certs baked in firmware. It’s what we all assumed, but quietly hoped wasn’t quite this bad. Lazy makers of home routers and the Internet of Things are reusing the same small set of hardcoded security keys, leaving them open to hijacking en masse, researchers have warned. In other words, if you […]
Over the last year, criminals in Russia found a way to steal 252 million Rubles ($3.8 million) from five unnamed banks, using a novel technique called a “reverse ATM attack”, according to Russian digital intelligence firm Group-IB. It exploited esoteric weaknesses in the international transfer system and involved compromised point-of-sale systems in America as well as a […]
In short order, the newest version of Cryptowall has begun showing up in exploit kits. The SANS Internet Storm Center said on Tuesday that an attacker working off domains belonging to Chinese registrar BizCN has been moving the ransomware via the Nuclear Exploit Kit. SANS ISC handler and Rackspace security engineer Brad Duncan said that […]
A certification tracking system (Credential Manager System) used by companies like Cisco, F5, IBM and Oracle has faced a data breach and sensitive data might have been accessed by the hackers. An announcement made by Pearson VUE (Computer-Based Test (CBT) development and delivery) said a malware was placed on the server of the tracking system […]
Short Bytes: Budget smartphones are a very interesting smartphone segment where a customer looks for tons of features for a not-so-high price. As the competition in this segment is increasing, thanks to newer markets, we are witnessing a flood of such devices from different smartphone makers. Honk Kong-based Elephone has a strong lineup of budget smartphones […]
This introductory guide to online safety offers parents some useful security tips on how to protect their children.
A PoC shows the future dangers for smart TV sets.Many cyber-security vendors view ransomware as 2016’s biggest threat, and to help drive this point home, a Symantec security researcher demonstrated how easy it can be to infect smart TVs and how hard it can be to clean the infection afterwards. The researcher did not reveal […]
Short Bytes: Sometimes it takes too much effort to fetch a cup of coffee, replying a couple emails, and some other small work at your job. The way it looks like, a programmer got irritated by these regular chores and decided to write some “hacker scripts” to get his job done. When you’ve got some […]
Both Amazon and Apple are in the same boat.GNU.org has a category on its website named “Philosophy of the GNU Project” where the Microsoft software is described as malware, along with Apple and Amazon. It’s not all that clear why these statements exist on the GNU.org website, even if it’s powered by FSF (Free Software […]
It was last year when a new method of attack on cellular networks was discovered. It requires neither costly radio scanners nor PC powerhouses and is available to virtually anyone. Besides, carriers have no practical means of protecting against this type of attack. The compromise is based on the attack on SS7 – a signalling […]
A vulnerability reported to United Airlines that could have been exploited to manipulate flight reservations and customer data sat unpatched for almost six months before it was fixed 10 days ago. Researcher Randy Westergren found and reported an issue in United’s mobile app in May, shortly after the airline announced its bug bounty program, the […]
The trend of using adult-themed Android apps to deliver malware is ramping up, as Zscaler security researchers are warning about two new such threats that have recently appeared on the market, both with low detection rates on virus scanning systems like VirusTotal. Zscaler previously uncovered two similar threats using pornography-themed apps that infected users with […]
WHEN SAMY KAMKAR lost his American Express card last August and received its replacement in the mail, something about the final digits on the new card set off an alert in the hacker lobe of his brain. He compared the numbers with those of his previous three American Express cards—as a universally curious security researcher […]
The cyber war between Armenians and Azerbaijani hackers is never ending — Like in this recent cyber attack in which the Armenian hackers leaked trove of data containing banking details of Azerbaijani citizens. In July 2, 2015, Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army hacked into the official website of Azerbaijani customs, stealing highly confidential personal information of 5650 […]
Turkish hackers just took down the official website of Russian Central Bank amid tension near Syrian-Turkey border. A group of Turkish hacktivist going with the handle of Turk Hack Team has conducted a powerful DDoS attack on the official website of Russian Central Bank earlier today forcing it to go offline for over 10 minutes. […]
Short Read: China is working on developing its own smartphone for government officials to avoid snooping from the enemy side. China, one of the world’s largest smartphone markets, has started working on its own smartphones. The smartphones which will have everything developed domestically, even the operating system. The upcoming smartphone will be made in China […]
Diane Greene, well-known tech expert and co-founder of VMware, is now senior the vice president for Google’s enterprise businesses. The New York Times reported that Google has also acquired Bebop Technologies, Greene’s startup and pioneer in cloud technology. Ms. Greene, is a graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and UC Berkeley and is one of […]
Dell is found to be shipping laptops having eDellRoot certificate installed by default. The certificate is through trusted but has all the permissions. Shipping laptops with pre-installed stuff is nothing new; Lenovo has been shipping laptops having pre-installed bloatware. Now, a user on twitter (Joe Nord) recently ordered a new Dell laptop and tweeted screenshot […]