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Hosting Company OVH’s servers Hit by 1 Tbps DDoS Attacks – This is the largest DDoS attack in the history of the Internet. OVH is counted amongst the largest hosting companies in the world but it is in the news for a bad reason as the company’s servers have suffered a massive 1 Tbps distributed denial-of-service […]
Could Hacking of Satellites Bring World Closer to A Star-Wars Type Nightmare? It may sound a bit filmy and unreal but it is definitely possible. Until now we had believed that star wars could not happen in real life.. it was something that only occurred in galaxies far far away but not in our world. […]
PoodleCorp is back with a bang, this time, Blizzard servers are facing the wrath of this ruthless DDoSing group. The PoodleCorp hacking and DDoSing group have conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) on the servers of gaming giant Blizzard forcing them to stay offline and left users wondering what’s really doing on. https://twitter.com/siegeh_/status/778534055054671872 Blizzard, on the […]
On Friday morning BBC started sending news alerts in the Bengali language and those receiving notifications from BBC had no idea what was going on so they thought BBC had been hacked. The BBC English service published an article on its site in the Bengali language leaving readers in doubt if the service had been hacked. […]
The Ghost Squad Hackers shut down Israeli Prime Minister Office and the Bank of Israel website in support of Palestine. The official website of Israeli Prime Minister office (pmo.gov.il) and The Bank of Israel (bankisrael.gov.il) were taken down by Ghost Squad on Sunday. Both sites were targeted under the banner of OpIsrael, an online operation started by […]
ThePirateBay.org domain has been blocked by some ISPs in India and users are not happy about it. Earlier we reported how India has waged a war on Torrents and file sharing websites. Now according to Hackread’s readers in India, the World’s largest BitTorrent tracker ThePirateBay is being blocked by some Internet service providers (ISPs) throughout the […]
PoodleCorp hacking group says they attacked Grand Theft Auto (GTA) and PlayStation servers earlier today forcing the service to go offline — The group vows to conduct more attacks! Poodle Corp hackers are claiming that they conducted a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Grand Theft Auto and Play Station servers earlier today which interrupted the online […]
PoodleCorp takes down Blizzard and League of Legends (NA) Servers down in yet another DDoS attack! PoodleCorp, a group of hackers are claiming responsibility for conducting a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on Blizzard and League of Legends servers. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California while […]
A team of attackers shut down several ISIS aka Daesh websites against terrorist attacks in Nice and Middle Eastern countries! Terrorism has no religion that’s why whenever a terrorist attack is carried out the victims are innocent people irrespective of race or religion. Hackers and DDoSers, on the other hand, are well aware of the […]
A few months ago, United States General Vincent Brooks warned the Senate about the growing threat from North Korean cyber-attacks, saying, “While I would not characterize them as the best in the world, they are among the best in the world, and the best organized.” Kim Jong on Computer (Courtesy of the BBC) In the […]
PokemonGo servers went offline earlier today and PoodleCorp hacking group claimed they were behind the attack! While everyone is playing PokemonGo game there are some people who do things a bit different and this time, it’s the PoodleCorp hacking group has done something different by conducting a massive DDoS attack on PokemonGo servers forcing the service to […]
The OurMine Hacking group conducted a massive DDoS attack on HSBC websites forcing the sites to go offline in the UK and the USA! The official domain of HSBC (Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) came under massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on 12 July affecting domain in the UK and the USA. The DDoS attack was conducted by […]
Lizard Squad hackers have been conducting Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) Attacks on banking and government institutions after compromising CCTV devices worldwide! Earlier in two previous incidents, researchers discovered hackers taking over thousands of CCTV devices and conducting DDoS attacks on small business websites; now an IT security firm Arbor Networks has exposed a third event in which famous Lizard […]
Reports show that UAE was spying on journalists and activists through spyware called Stealth Falcon There have been a lot of stories on hacking and spying in the modern era that getting them all is close to impossible. But here and there comes a few which stand out and make people really talk about them. […]
After a long battle, The Pirate Bay has to say bye to its .SE domain! The Pirate Bay is no more. At least only in Sweden after the website suffered one of the first major blows in the country where a Swedish Court has ruled that the two domain servers, ThePirateBay.se and PirateBay.se will be […]
Attackers have found a new target and this time it’s the official website of the Black Lives Matter movement. Ghost Squad hacktivists have conducted a series of some powerful DDoS attacks on the official website of Black Lives Matter movement forcing it to go offline for the visitors. In the first phase of the attack which was conducted yesterday GS DDoSed […]
Oliver Stone’s masterpiece is coming — Here is the latest trailer for ‘Snowden,’ The Movie Oliver Stone is known for depicting famous real life stories on screen. And the list of his highly successful real-life depictions includes the Scarface, Kennedy assassination, the Watergate break-in, the Vietnam conflict, and the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror.’ The latest to […]
Pro-ISIS hackers from all over the world have joined hands to make a new hacking unit to target the US and West. Hackers supporting the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) aka Daesh terrorist group have joined hands with other terrorist supporting groups to form a joint team and collectively target the cyberspace in the West. The super hacking unit […]
Sweden says its cyberspace was under sophisticated cyber attack from Russia Sweden sent a message to NATO and released alert all over claiming that the country was under threat of a serious cyber-attack in November 2015. According to reports, the Swedish government claimed of receiving two separate warnings and passed them to various NATO allies […]
The world’s largest pornography website Xhamster has blocked its access in the state of North Carolina against the recently signed anti-LGBT law You must have heard about Springsteen boycotts but xHamster, the world’s 91st largest pornography site, has introduced a completely different way to protest against governments and to prove their stances. The move comes […]
Turkish hackers have been targeting Armenian websites and Armenian hackers are targeting Azerbaijani government — Meanwhile Azerbaijani hackers are missing from the picture A group of Turkish hackers going by the online handle of Turk Hack Team (THT) have decided to side with Azerbaijan over the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and conducted a series of cyber […]