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Once hacking Yahoo Mail accounts, the employee also compromised accounts to access his victims’ Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, and iCloud accounts. Yahoo Mail has more than 200 million active users around the world and that makes it a lucrative target for cybercriminals but this time an insider at Yahoo is making headlines for all the wrong […]
Bulletproof hoster not so Bulletproof after all. Authorities in Germany have raided, busted and seized a massive data bunker called “Cyberbunker 2.0” used by dark web criminals to run drugs, explicit child content and other illegal activities. The data center was being run inside a former NATO bunker in the town of Traben-Trarbach in Western […]
In certain countries, the populace holds a deep bond with their armed forces. Reasons such as patriotism, giving back and love for freedom can often be attributed to such emotions and this holds true for the USA as well. Therefore, its own way, The U.S Chamber of Commerce hosts an online website at “hiringourheroes.org” to […]
On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed. The first report was seen to be made by Manshuq Media on Facebook where they explained the issue in a post as seen below: The post translated from Kazakh. This came forward […]
Dating can be hard, especially when you’re doing it online. Swiping right can always give you that little niggle in the back of your head, “are they who they say they are?” We’ve all heard the horror stories, but then again there are plenty of tales of success and the number of Tinder marriages is […]
A new Amazon phishing scam email is circulating, that tricks users into handing over their personal as well as financial information including credit card information to online crooks. Usually, Hackread covers phishing scams identified and alerted by cyber security companies but in the latest one, the targeted scam was aimed at my supposed Amazon account. […]
CamScanner app has been deleted by Google from Play Store. The IT security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered a dangerous malware in the CamScanner app, a tremendously popular application for Android devices used by more than 100 million users around the world. The purpose of the CamScanner app is to turn a smartphone into a […]
Outer space’s first-ever cyber crime? It seems so. The US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has confirmed that it is currently investigating an incident involving one of its astronauts who might have committed the first-ever cyber crime in outer space. According to The New York Times, astronaut Anne McClain allegedly accessed her […]
Crypto mining the “Wrong way” – In a nuclear facility. Cryptocurrencies have lately been surprising everyone with their potential and causing a lot of headaches too – particularly for governments and regulatory agencies. But sometimes the reason isn’t their massive potential to undermine government currencies as in the case of the USA or their use […]
When it comes to phishing scams, Microsoft has turned out to be the most preferred target for hackers while PayPal, Facebook, and Netflix are also on the list. Among the various hacking techniques out there, phishing scams happen to be one of the most successful and commonly used ones. The reason being that it is […]
The malware campaign was discovered by Dr. Web detailing how hackers have been using Bolik banking trojan against unsuspected users. If there’s one reason for the distrust that consumers had in online marketplaces in the old days, it was because of “getting not what you see.” Although Amazon has chimed in to fill in that […]
The infamous messageboard 8chan responsible for spreading hateful content against minorities and people of color has been forced to go offline after hosting company Voxility booted the site off from its server. Voxility’s decision came right after the website security firm Cloudflare announced cutting off its services for 8chan. Cloudflare’s decision came hours after it […]
The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based bank holding company has suffered a massive data breach in which personal and financial data of over 106 million customers has been accessed and stolen. Out of 106 million, 100 million customers are […]
The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison. In 2017, the IT security researcher Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero […]
What mounting public concern about falling victim to cybercrime says about government and corporate efforts at cybercrime deterrence
An estimated 2 million cyberattacks took place in 2018 costing more than $45 billion in damages worldwide. The worse part is that while cyberattacks are surging authorities are struggling to tackle the growing threat, said study released on Tuesday. Ransomware attacks According to the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance (OTA), which compiles data from the […]
The cybercriminal was also involved in several other cybercrimes including swatting and deleting databases of targeted websites. Austin Thompson, a DDoS attacker going by the online handle of Derp Trolling has been sentenced to 2.25 years (27 months) in prison for conducting DDoS attacks on gaming giants back in 2013 to 2014. In November last […]
Story of an Advanced Persistent Threat attack against a large corporation that started with a series of blank emails. Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are increasingly targeting enterprise networks nowadays. This article highlights a recent attack against a large, well-protected Australian organization that entailed a major data breach. It’s Monday, 12:55 p.m. In Sydney, Olivia Wilson […]
A hacker or simply call them a cyber criminal hacked into the independent student newspaper of the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) “The Fulcrum” and ended up deleting the entire website early Sunday morning. The Fulcrum has been serving the University of Ottawa since 1942 while the website has been online since 2006. The deleted content […]
Authorities arrested six suspects including five males and one female in simultaneous raids carried out in a joint operation. The raids and subsequent arrests were carried out to trace $28 million worth of stolen Bitcoin. The raids were conducted as part of a 14-month long, large-scale, global police investigation involving European law enforcement agencies including […]
For the last couple of years, there has been a surge in phishing attacks against businesses and unsuspecting users. What’s worse is that phishing, which was previously merely a fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information, is now spreading malicious content including ransomware. While tech and cybersecurity companies are focusing on providing top-notch security to their […]