The banking institution claims that the data and assets of its customers are safe According to network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the IT teams of CIBanco detected the presence of a malware on the computer of one of its employees. The bank implemented certain security measures, such […]
We usually ask you not to opt for free VPN’s, especially on your Android device. Only a while ago, we came across a study which revealed that top free VPN apps on the Google Play Store come loaded with malware and tend to leak data. With that being said, you can put faith on free VPN if it’s […]
With the development of the Internet, personal information is becoming more and more transparent. For preventing the leak information, many security teams are interested in developing your anonymous protection of the operating system. Here are the anonymous based-Linux Operating Systems which you should use. Qubes OS Qubes OS is a security-oriented operating system (OS). The OS […]
The Operation Power OFF has taken down the largest illegal market place offering DDoS-for-hire service Webstresser[.]org last April. Authorities collected 151 000 registered users information for the services. After the services have been taken down, now the authorities tracking down the users enrolled for the DDoS-for-hire service. Coordinated by Europol along with J-CAT, Dutch police, […]
The gang managed to generate revenues of more than £150k in a year of activity Three drug traffickers working on dark web were sentenced to just over 43 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, a powerful opioid, to hundreds of consumers around the world, report network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute […]
The City of Del Rio IT system was compromised by the Ransomware attack that leads to shut down the regular operation and the servers are disabled. Del Rio is a city in and the county seat of Val Verde County, Texas reported that the powerful Ransomware hit on their IT system. As a precaution step, Management Information Services (MIS) […]
Earlier, the US Department of Justice announced today that the FBI had confiscated the domains of 15 DDoS For Hire websites for compensation and accused three people of using some of these services. Subscription DDoS or “Booter” or “Stresser” services provide rental access to the network of infected devices, which can then be used by […]
The FBI just saved the Christmas. The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 “DDoS-for-hire” websites and charged three individuals running some of these services. DDoS-for-hire, or “Booter” or “Stresser,” services rent out access to a network of infected devices, which then can be used by anyone, even […]
Researchers recently observed that cyber criminals using a weaponized memes in order to communicate with malware for various malicious operations. Memes are nowadays using for fast communication methods to spreading news which is now abused by cyber criminals to reach victims in a very effective way. Attackers using Steganography to embed the malicious payload inside of […]
2018 is becoming the year of cryptomining malware, a subtle virus compared to the very loud ransomware which dominated the 2017 malware scene. Ransomware came into the mainstream last year, as the trend was started by WannaCry, costing many companies and individual users to pay an aggregate amount of $4 billion in ransom fees, to […]
Over 200 members of a fraudulent scheme were arrested by European agencies The dark web has become a space of proliferation for all kinds of illicit activities; criminal associations engaged in drugs sale, malicious software distribution and children exploitation act freely over this platform. To counter the activities of these groups, law enforcement agencies across […]
Google, the FBI, ad-fraud fighting company WhiteOps and a collection of cyber security companies worked together to shut down one of the largest and most sophisticated digital ad-fraud schemes that infected over 1.7 million computers to generate fake clicks used to defraud online advertisers for years and made tens of millions of dollars in revenue. […]
A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers. What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS OpenRTOS, SafeRTOS)? FreeRTOS is a leading open source real-time operating system (RTOS) for embedded systems […]
PatrOwl is a scalable, free and open-source solution for orchestrating Security Operations. PatrowlManager is the Front-end application for managing the assets, reviewing risks on real-time, orchestrating the operations (scans, searches, API calls, …), aggregating the results, relaying alerts on third parties (ex: Incident Response platform like TheHive, Splunk, …) and providing the reports and dashboards. […]
Attackers target critical servers using three of the NSA-developed hacking tools, including DarkPulsar, which were leaked by the Shadow Brokers hacking group According to reports of experts in digital forensics, various groups of hackers take advantage of DarkPulsar, DanderSpritz and Fuzzbunch, hacking tools developed by the National Security Agency (NSA), to infect the Windows Server 2003 and […]
Details about this operation of massive bank robbery are revealed Researchers from a security and digital forensics firm have publicly disclosed some details about how a team of North Korean hackers, christened as APT 38, have tried to steal about $1.1 billion USD from financial institutions around the world. The expert group had previously attributed these cyberattacks […]
Trump Administration leans towards a more proactive approach on cybersecurity The White House has authorized what it called “offensive cyber operations” against interests contrary to those of the United States, which complies with the new policy that eases the rules on the use of cyber weapons to protect the nation, as reported by specialists in […]
The 37-year-old man who developed and operated the counter antivirus service Scan4You, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison Ruslans Bondars, a man born in former USSR, based in Latvia, but without Latvian citizenship, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for crimes related to the operation of Scan4You, an online counter antivirus service that […]
Scan4You was a VirusTotal like platform used for malicious purposes. A 37-year old male from Riga, Latvia has received 14 years sentence for creating and running Scan4You, a counter antivirus service that aided malware developers to check detection rates of their malicious software. The convict has been identified as a Latvian non-citizen namely Ruslan Bondars […]
New research reveals that Israel based NSO Group using powerful mobile based Pegasus Spyware to conducting massive surveillance in 45 countries across the globe. NSO Group is operating from Israel where they produce and sells a mobile phone spyware named as Pegasus to governments and private entities to perform massive Surveillance operation in order to gain […]
AlphaBay was one of the largest dark web marketplaces – In 2017, its admin Alexandre Cazes committed suicide in a Thai prison. The Fresno Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has finally concluded a 14-month long civil forfeiture case and allowed seizure of property and assets of a Canadian national Alexandre Cazes […]