Latest Facebook scam is spreading like wildfire and it uses a Chrome app to steal login credentials — So watch out. Facebook is the most used social media platform around the world with 1.65 billion users and that’s what makes it a lucrative target for crooks, hackers and online scammers. Today, HackRead got to know […]
Rogue USB-to-Ethernet adapters Can Help Attackers to Extract Credentials of Locked PCs. If your PC is locked it does not mean that your credentials and data are safe. A rogue USB-to-Ethernet adapter will help the attackers unlock computers running Windows or OS X to steal your private data. Even a $50 adapter can do the […]
First off, this is dead simple and shouldn’t work, but it does. Also, there is no possible way that I’m the first one that has identified this, but here it is (trust me, I tested it so many ways to confirm it because I couldn’t believe it was true) TL;DR USB Ethernet + DHCP + […]
Attack from the ’90s resurfaces more deadly than before. A flaw in how Windows handles old authentication procedures for shared network resources can leak a user’s Microsoft account username and password, or VPN credentials if the user is using a VPN to surf the Internet. The exploit relies on an attacker embedding a link to an […]
A hacker has stolen Amazon Marketplace data from a 3rd-party server — He is now offering the data on an underground forum for BTC 0.02! A hacker going by the online handle of 0xTaylor has claimed to have stolen a database from an unknown third-party server that contains data on several platforms including Amazon Marketplace. […]
Hacker leaked 80,000 Amazon Kindle login credentials because the company wouldn’t respond to his security report! A hacker going by the online handle of 0x2Taylor has claimed to breach the servers of electronic commerce giant Amazon ending up leaking login credentials of 80,000 users. The 597.4 MB leaked data includes usernames and encrypted passwords of Amazon Kindle […]
The latest malware targets Mac users to steal their user credentials — Watch out and don’t fall for it! A new Mac malware has been discovered by researchers that steal login credentials from OS-encrypted keychain allowing attackers to take over the device by maintaining a permanent backdoor. Discovered by ESET, the malware is known OSX/Keydnap which comes […]
ESET analyzes multiple samples targeting OS X every day. Those samples are usually potentially unwanted applications that inject advertisements into browser displays while the victim is browsing the web. For the last few weeks, we have been investigating an interesting case where the purpose of the malware is to steal the content of the keychain and […]
Over 30 million Twitter account details are put up for sale on the computer underground.
uTorrent forum suffers massive data breach through vendor controlling the forum! The BitTorrent Client uTorrent, established by Ludvig Strigeus and later acquired by BitTorrent Inc., has issued a warning to its users regarding a security breach of their forum which allowed hackers to steal user information and password hashes of the site. Naturally, uTorrent has urged its […]
While SNSLocker isn’t a stand-out crypto-ransomware in terms of routine or interface, its coarse and bland façade hid quite a surprise. After looking closer at its code, we discovered that thisransomware contains the credentials for the access of its own server. We also found out that they used readily-available servers and payment systems. This shows […]
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 […]
Blast from the Past Haunts LinkedIn – A Hacker Leaks Details of LinkedIn users Online YET AGAIN! Social media platforms are becoming excessively and increasingly vulnerable to data leaks, hacks, and scams. Every other day we read about some or the other social networking website getting exploited, compromised, scammed or hacked resulting in exposure of profiles, email […]
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 […]
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to be a possible security breach. After reaching out to a random sampling of the victims via email, we’ve confirmed that these users’ Spotify accounts were compromised […]
Many people come to Null Byte looking to hack Facebook without the requisite skills to do so. Facebook is far from unhackable, but to do so, you will need some skills, and skill development is what Null Byte is all about. Sometimes, if you have a bit of skill, a bit of luck, and a […]
Last summer we shared a story about the SweetCaptcha WordPress plugin injecting ads and causing malvertising problems for websites that leveraged the plugin. When this plugin was removed from the official WordPress Plugin directory, the authors revived another WordPress account with a long abandoned plugin and uploaded SweetCaptcha as a “new version” of that plugin. In […]
Breach comes a year after a previous hack compromised 300,000 people. The US Internal Revenue Service was the target of a malware attack that netted electronic tax-return credentials for 101,000 social security numbers, the agency disclosed Tuesday. Identity thieves made the haul by using taxpayers’ personal data that was stolen from a source outside the IRS, […]
FireEye IT security firm has discovered Android malware apps that can masquerade as the most popular financial applications including world’s biggest banks. In total, the security firm found Android apps from 33 financial institutions masquerading for the purpose of stealing financial data. These apps come from a family of Trojan apps known as “SlemBunk” and […]
ShortRead: MacKeeper, a utility software suite for Mac OS X faced a data breach which has exposed details in relation to its 13 million customers. The most interesting part of this breach is that the guy who reported this breach doesn’t even have a Mac and found this on Shodan which is a search engine […]
According to an official document from the FBI, a Russian gang has been involved in a breach of 1.2 billion login credentials. Furthermore, the records state the gang as “CyberVor” and have been charged with theft of 1.2 billion login credentials and half a billion email addresses. FBI’s investigations were based on the findings of […]