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A Columbian hacker claims he helped the candidate Enrique Peña Nieto in winning the Mexican presidential election in 2012. Until now we have seen something of similar only in the TV series, but the reality could overwhelm the fiction because a Columbian hacker claims he helped Enrique Peña Nieto in winning Mexican presidential election. The hacker […]
Paris terrorists used burner phones and US lawmakers have proposed a bill that would force retailers to record the identity of the buyers of these devices. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide are fighting against terrorist organizations operating in their territories, but investigations are hampered by the use of encrypted communications. After the Paris attacks, intelligence agencies […]
Infected websites are hard to detect, only show up for users coming off search engines and for search bots. A new black hat SEO campaign is leveraging a combination of hacked websites, backdoors, doorway scripts, and SEO poisoning to redirect a website’s users to pornographic websites. This whole scenario relies on an attacker’s ability to hack into […]
Although the government officially withdrew from its battle against Apple Monday, many observers sense the tech privacy war is just getting started. “This lawsuit may be over, but the Constitutional and privacy questions it raised are not,” Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who had criticized the Justice Department’s suit against Apple, said in a statement Monday. The Justice […]
Google is improving its Gmail warning service to help protect the customers from state-sponsored hacking and surveillance activities. Google confirmed that one million Gmail accounts might have been targeted by nation-state hackers. The news is worrying, the company is observing a significant increase in the number of hacking attacks on user email accounts. Google announced […]
Gumtree is a free classified advertising site and subsidiary of eBay particular popular in the UK, Australia, and South Africa. Gumtree is the number one local classifieds in Australia with 47.8M monthly visits* and was recently affected by a malvertising attack. Threat actors hacked the account of an Australian legal firm called Concisus Legal to create a legitimate looking […]
The IDs and passwords of about 18 million Internet users have been found on a computer server set up by a Tokyo company, which was found in November to have allegedly provided its relay server to parties in China for illegal access, the Metropolitan Police Department announced Friday. The total includes member information of 1.78 million […]
Researchers at Fox-IT warn that the website of security certification provider EC Council has been compromised to host the malicious Angler Exploit Kit. No one is secure, we are all potential targets, even if you are a skilled expert and the fact that I’m going to tell you demonstrates it. The website of security certification provider […]
Hackers reportedly stole the records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise which are offered for sale in the criminal underground. According to KrebsOnSecurity, data leaked after a security reach at Verizon Enterprise Solutions are available in the cyber criminal underground. Records of 1.5 million customers of Verizon Enterprise are available for sale, the entire archive is offered for $100,000, but […]
US authorities announced charges against seven Iranian hackers for attacking computer systems atUS authorities announced charges against seven Iranian hackers for attacking computer systems at banks and a dam in New York. banks and a dam in New York. A couple of days after the US DoJ announced that three components of the Syrian Electronic Armywere inserted […]
CVE-2016-1788 is difficult to exploit, but within the capabilities of nation state attackers. Users are advised to update to iOS 9.3 to reduce the risk of attack. Users of Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad are advised to update to the latest version of the iOS operating system (iOS 9.3), following the discovery […]
Ransomware attacks have made a lot of headlines in the past year with several high-profile cases, including that of the Hospital in Los Angeles which had its data encrypted and ended up paying the ransom to get it back. Recently, the Ottawa hospital in Canada was also hit but able to contain a ransomware attack. We discovered […]
The online editions of principal Swedish newspapers were knocked out for several hours by a cyber attack during the weekend. The websites if a Swedish were shut down in the weekend due to an “extremely dangerous and serious” cyber attack. The websites hit by the hackers are the Dagens Nyheter, Svenska Dagbladet, Expressen, Aftonbladet, Dagens Industri, Sydsvenskan […]
Proofpoint researchers prevent bank cyber-heists. Carbanak, the cybercriminal group that robbed more than $1 billion from 100 banks across 30 countries in 2013 and 2014, has been seen once again, and this time, security researchers say they’ve caught the group in their early attack stages. In February 2015, the world was shocked to find that cybercriminals […]
BitQuick announces huge downtime after attempted cyber-heist. Bitcoin trading platform BitQuick announced on Thursday, March 17, that it would be shutting down its service for the next two to four weeks to investigate a cyber-attack that took place on Monday, March 14. BitQuick staff said that, during the incident, the attacker managed to break through their […]
DDoS attacks can have an amplification factor of 26.5. An independent security researcher that goes by the name of MalwareTech has discovered a way in which he could abuse the ZeroAccess malware’s botnet to launch reflection DDoS attacks with an above-average amplification factor. ZeroAccess is a trojan that infects Windows computers and then starts communication with […]
Crook hijacks iCloud account, locks victim’s Mac.Crooks have discovered a method of turning Apple’s security features against the company’s users, hijacking Apple iCloud accounts and making them behave as ransomware, locking users out of their devices and data. An Apple customer reported this new novel attack scenario to US cyber-security vendor Malwarebytes, complaining about being locked […]
Legitimate code-signing certificates provide secret cover for attack groups. There are lots of ways to ensure the success of an advanced hacking operation. For a gang called Suckfly, one of the keys is having plenty of stolen code-signing certificates on hand to give its custom malware the appearance of legitimacy. Since 2014, the group has used […]
According to experts at EndPoint security firm, crooks are buying many .om domains to carry on typosquatting attacks. Crooks are buying many .om domains to carry on typosquatting attacks. According to experts at EndPoint security firm, crooks are buying many .om domains with the purpose to fool clumsy users that mistype .om instead of .com . […]
Hacker admits crime, faces up to five years in jail. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday, March 15, that it charged Ryan Collins, 36, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, of illegally accessing the Gmail and Apple accounts of various celebrities in the famous “The Fappening” or “Celebgate” scandal. FBI officials are saying that between November […]
Researchers analyze five AV-made system repair tools.System rescue tools provided by antivirus makers are often used to clean infected systems after the main antivirus software detects infections. Most antivirus makers bundle this functionality in their main products, but a few offer more specialized tools that also repair damaged files, attempting to restore the system to […]