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DAO had just raised $150 million in record crowdfunding effort. A futuristic technology experiment appears to have fallen prey to a common technological risk, as operators of a new investment fund based on a digital currency said they had suffered a catastrophic hack. Founders of the fund, DAO, which was built around a digital currency called […]
Repository’s own account data not breached, affected passwords reset. On June 14, someone using what appears to have been a list of e-mail addresses and passwords obtained from the breach of “other online services” made a massive number of login attempts to GitHub’s repository service. A review of logins by GitHub’s administrators found that the attacker […]
Man arrested after Mossack Fonseca filed official complaint. An IT manager for Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca was arrested yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland, on suspicion of data theft, Swiss newspaper Le Temps reported. Authorities did not reveal the employee’s name, who works for Mossack Fonseca’s Swiss branch, but said they opened an investigation after the law […]
Over the last two years, deep in the slums of the Internet, a different kind of underground market has flourished. The short, cryptic name perhaps doesn’t say much about it: xDedic. However, on this obscure marketplace anyone can purchase more than 70,000 hacked servers from all around the Internet. xDedic forum login From government networks […]
Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to committee officials and security experts who responded to the breach. The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read […]
North Korea hacked into more than 140,000 computers at 160 South Korean firms and government agencies, planting malicious code under a long-term plan laying groundwork for a massive cyber attack against its rival, police in the South said on Monday. South Korea has been on heightened alert against cyber attacks by the North after Pyongyang […]
The recently-defunct company was once the third-largest music and video file sharing service in the US. Users accounts for iMesh, a now defunct file sharing service, are for sale on the dark web. The New York-based music and video sharing company was a peer-to-peer service, which rose to fame in the file sharing era of […]
The chief executive of tech support firm Zendesk has become the latest high-profile figure to have his Twitter account hacked. Mikkel Svane’s hijacked account had its ID image changed to that of a cartoon. It follows similar attacks against accounts owned by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, musicians Keith Richards, Katy Perry and Bon Iver and the […]
All Necurs activity stopped on June 1, down ever since. The Necurs botnet, the largest malware distribution botnet known today, seems to be facing some technical problems, and the direct consequence of this downtime is a huge dip in Dridex and Locky distribution numbers. Necurs is the collective network of computers infected with the Necurs rootkit. […]
is the default PDF reader that is included in the Google Chrome web browser. Talos has identified an exploitable heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Pdfium PDF reader. By simply viewing a PDF document that includes an embedded jpeg2000 image, the attacker can achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim’s system. The most effective attack […]
Passwords for 32 Million Twitter accounts may have been hacked and leaked. After the mega hacks of last month, it is now time for Twitter. But there is a twist in this news. It seems that Twitter was hacked and the hacker managed to steal Twitter user ids and passowords of 32 million users. However, […]
Crooks use brand new potent feature to just show adware. A previously discovered and highly dangerous Android trojan has received an update in the form of a module that allows it to inject the phone’s Web browsers and intercept URLs, redirecting users to any link the crook wishes to. The trojan in question is named Triada […]
If it can happen to her, chances are it can happen to lots of people. In a scenario that’s growing increasingly common, the chief technologist of the US Federal Trade Commission recently lost control of her smartphone after someone posing as her walked into a mobile phone store and hijacked her number. Details of the incident […]
100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale on the Dark Web. Another day another data breach, this time 100 million login credentials belonging to the users of the Russian social networking platform VK.com (VKontakte) are available for sale. Some experts estimate that the number of […]
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg understandably has accounts on other social networks – it only makes sense to keep up with what the competition is up to. But that doesn’t mean he bothers to maintain standard security practices on non-Facebook properties. This weekend, his Twitter and Pinterest accounts were hacked. The group responsible, OurMine […]
The notorious crime forum Sh0ping.su has been hacked by unknowns that leaked online credit card data and stolen accounts. Data breaches are a common problem also for bad actors, in many cases cyber criminals hack websites of competitors to damage their reputation and push out them from the business. Recently we discussed the hacks of […]
A new update to the CryptXXX Ransomware has made significant design changes to both the ransom notes and the TOR payment site. Previously, CryptXXX, like many other ransomware infections, copied the layout and design of CryptoWall. With this recent update, they have now created their own template and changed the name of their decryptor to UltraDeCrypter. Could […]
That “set” of accounts compromised in the Tumblr hack was actually 65 million. Have I Been Pwned added another 40 million from the ‘dating’ hookup site Fling. The MySpace hack had more than 360 million email addresses in it. After signing up for Have I Been Pwned? when Troy Hunt started the site in 2013, […]
Clues reveal campaign has been active since mid-2015. Security experts from Anomali Labs have revealed they’ve detected new versions of FrameworkPoS, one of the oldest PoS malware pieces on the market, in attacks against US-based small businesses. According to telemetry data, the company says that the crooks managed to steal the Track 2 data from at […]
This Little App will Warn Windows 10 PC/Laptop and Windows 10 Mobile Users If They Get Hacked. Even though there are security softwares and antivirus solutions that do a good job in protecting our computers, there is no such thing as being too secure on Internet. There is always a new security breach that could […]
For cryptocurrency enthusiasts seeking mainstream adoption, events like this are so unhelpful. Hackers appear to have made off with the equivalent of $2 million in digital currencies from Gatecoin, according to a notice posted on the exchange’s website. The Hong Kong-based firm admitted a security breach occurred between May 9 and 12 that allowed unauthorized access […]