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Attack on NS1 sends 50 million to 60 million lookup packets per second. Unknown attackers have been directing an ever-changing army of bots in a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against NS1, a major DNS and traffic management provider, for over a week. While the company has essentially shunted off much of the attack traffic, […]
An 18-year-old man has been charged by British police in connection with an internet attack that saw Mumsnet hacked, users’ accounts breached, passwords stolen, and the site blasted offline. David Gerrard Buchanan, 18, from Haslemere, Surrey, was charged by the Metropolitan Police’s Cyber Crime Unit (MPCCU) with two counts under section 1 of the Computer […]
Over 1.4 billion Yen was reportedly stolen in a span of two and a half hours across automated teller machines (ATMs) found in over 1,400 convenience stores in Japan this month. According to the local police, the simultaneous theft occurred on March 15 where money was illegally withdrawn from ATMS located in Tokyo and 16 […]
The hacker responsible for leaking 400GB of data from Italian spyware firm Hacking Team has published a tutorial video showing those seeking to follow in his footsteps how to hack a police website. How To Hack The Police: Vigilante Hacker Publishes Online Tutorial Video Known variously as Phineas Fisher, GammaGroupPR and Hack Back, the anonymous […]
Phone numbers exposed in borked verification portal Security consultant Arne Swinnen says Instagram has shuttered brute force authentication holes that allowed hijacking of some 20 million accounts. The NVISO infosec man says an absent authentication control coupled with an insecure direct object reference vulnerability meant attackers could commandeer some four percent of accounts held in […]
The hack made headlines in the UK and international press An archive detailing a historic hack and its fallout has been handed over to the National Museum of Computing. Previously, the cache of documents, press cuttings and letters had been kept by Robert Schifreen, who hacked BT’s Prestel system in 1984. He and Steve Gold […]
A LinkedIn hack from back in 2012 is still causing problems for its users. The companyannounced this morning that another data set from the hack, which contains over 100 million LinkedIn members’ emails and passwords, has now been released. In response to this new data dump, LinkedIn says it’s working to validate the accounts and […]
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business mostly ran by Google, Yahoo or Bing via AdSense-like programs. The current generation of clickbots such as the Redirector.Paco Trojan have taken abuse to a whole new level, burning through companies’ advertising budget at an unprecedented pace. This paper is based on research carried by Bitdefender antimalware researchers Cristina Vatamanu, Răzvan Benchea and […]
A security expert discovered security flaws that could let anyone to steal as much as $25 Billion from one of the biggest Indian banks. The security researcher Sathya Prakash discovered that the critical vulnerabilities reside in the mobile banking application used by the bank customers. Prakash explained that the exploitation of the flaw allowed him to steal […]
John McAfee, noted liar and one-time creator of anti-virus software, apparently tried to convince reporters that he hacked the encryption used on WhatsApp. To do this, he attempted to send them phones with preinstalled malware and then convince them he was reading their encrypted conversations. In April, WhatsApp announced that it had added automatic end-to-end […]
Marco Rubio Memes flash on 2 Alabama billboards after apparent hack. Alabama citizens may have had the fright of of their life when they saw 2 giant billboards in their city show NSFW memes. The two billboards were apparently hacked by a Twitter user nicknamed Johnny Cockring who put up a porn meme of Marco […]
The financial messaging network says a commercial bank was targeted in an attack with ‘deep knowledge of operational controls’. Swift, the global financial messaging network that banks use to move billions of dollars every day, warned on Thursday of a second malware attack similar to the one that led to February’s $81 million cyberheist at the […]
The notorious Jigsaw Ransomware has rebranded itself as CryptoHitman and now uses the character from the popular Hitman video games and movies. In addition to adding the Hitman character to its locker screen, CryptoHitman also covers the lock screen with pornographic images that are definitely not safe for work. Blurred out Hitman Ransomware Locker Screen Like the previous Jigsaw ransomware […]
Last week, US-based cyber security firm Hold Security recovered 272.3 million stolen accounts from a fraudster. What the hack? More than 88,000 .sg accounts stolen by hacker Out of those, 88,000 accounts originated from Singapore, Hold Security’s founder and chief information security officer Alex Holden told The New Paper in an e-mail. “There are over […]
Attackers can score user privileges thanks to heap corruption hassle Some of the world’s biggest security and software vendors will be rushing to patch holes in implementations of the popular 7-zip compression tool to stop attackers gaining full control of customer machines. Compression tool 7-Zip pwned, pain flows to top security, software tools Cisco security […]
Backdoors are typically designed to execute cybercriminals’ commands on the infected machine. As a rule, they are used to gain a remote access to the user’s private information. Recently, Doctor Web security researchers have discovered yet another representative belonging to the mentioned category—BackDoor.Apper.1. The Trojan is distributed via a dropper in the form of the […]
Several popular webmail providers are investigating a report that millions of their users’ login details are being shared online by a hacker. Google Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Microsoft Hotmail and Mail.ru are among the services said to have been affected. The security firm that flagged the issue said that it believed many of the usernames and […]
A hacker whose creation stole bank account details from over a million computers across the globe has been ordered to pay $6.9 million. Nikita Kuzmin from Russia is one of the three architects of the Gozi virus, which infects computers through PDF files. People unwittingly install it on their machines by downloading a PDF file […]
A serious expert discovered a flaw in PwnedList service that could have been exploited to access millions of account credentials managed by the service. A serious vulnerability found in the PwnedList could have been exploited by hackers to gain access to millions of account credentials collected by the service. The service PwnedList allow users to check if […]
Canadian Gold-Mining Company Goldcorp suffered a major data breach, 14.8 GB Data Stolen, the hackers plan to release more data dumps soon. The Canadian gold-mining firm Goldcorp suffered a major data breach, attackers have stolen online a 14.8 GB archive. The archive includes company’s employees’ data (career data, titles, email addresses, location information, private telephone number, work phone […]
Skimming attacks on ATMs increased at an alarming rate last year for both American and European banks and their customers, according to recent stats collected by fraud trackers. The trend appears to be continuing into 2016, with outbreaks of skimming activity visiting a much broader swath of the United States than in years past. In a […]