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Authorities have conducted a large-scale operation against cyber criminals in several European countries. As a result, 6 people have been arrested while 36 have been questioned after Europol, Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) raided 20 houses in Cyprus, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom between 5th […]
The Kaunas Lithuania-based Grozio Chirurgija clinics were recently hacked by a group called Tsar Team who leaked thousands of private photos of plastic surgery patients including naked photos of celebrities. What did the photos include? According to authorities, around 25,000 photos were leaked that included personal information. Also, the leak included 1,500 naked photos of Brits. Essentially, […]
Since Donald Trump has become the president of the United States there has been a sudden change in US immigration policy. From asking visa applicants and travelers for their social media credentials to the installation of face recognition system for locals or banning laptop from 10 countries over ISIS fears rules are changing like never before. Now, […]
Evaldas Rimasauskas, a man from Lithuania, scammed two major US tech companies into wiring over 100 million Dollars to several bank accounts. According to the reports, the criminal impersonated to be a well-known Asian computer hardware manufacturer by registering his own company with the same name in Latvia, with the same name as a legitimate one […]
A group of hacktivists connected to the online hacktivist group Anonymous is urging teens to quit taking part in a sinister game called Blue Whale Challenge. Since last year, this game has gained popularity in Russia and as a result, 130 teens have reportedly committed suicide.. (Editors note: HackRead has so far been unable to […]
Wikileaks, the famed whistleblowing platform, recently revealed a lot to the public. Titled Vault 7, Part 1, the documents show a grim view of government surveillance as we know it. Among the disturbing pieces of information was that of the CIA’s efforts to breach the security of Apple’s iPads and iPhones. The Central Intelligence Service […]
Wikileaks has published a massive trove of data allegedly the biggest ever leak on Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) highlighting its hacking capabilities for large-scale cyber attacks and espionage. Dubbed Vault 7 by Wikileaks; the documents were supposed to be leaked by Julian Assange himself, however, due to attacks on his Facebook and Periscope streaming, the organization […]
Since the emergence of Mirai IoT botnet, there have been a noticeable increase in DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) and it looks like authorities are eager to take on culprits behind these attacks. In a statement released by Europol’s press service on Monday, it has been announced that Europol itself and with the help of US […]
German interior minister has proposed a draft law for data protection (DVD) in which the powers and authorities of German Data Protection department have been limited greatly and they cannot even investigate suspected breaches of legal and medical records of people. Also Read: Statues of Snowden, Assange, Manning unveiled in Berlin’ Alexanderplatz square This particular bill will also […]
The European Commission servers were forced to go offline for hours on Thursday after suffering a series of large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The Commission confirmed there was no data breach and also claimed that there was no service interruption but one staff member revealed they couldn’t access the Internet for hours after the attack. […]
London’s official tourism slogan is “See the world. Visit London” and looks like cyber criminals are already paying their visit to the country’s Financial Hub London with Ransomware attacks. London is the financial hub of the United Kingdom and nobody can deny this fact. So when it is suggested that employees working in London are at […]
Forget ATM malware, criminals are using explosive to crack ATM machines and steal thousands of Euros in Europian countries. It is definitely startling to know that crooks have become so desperate that they have returned to old-school tactics for raking in large sums of money. Reportedly, around 492 ATMs all across Europe have been attacked […]
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has ordered Facebook to stop collecting WhatsApp users’ data in Germany and delete it. A German regulator ordered Facebook to stop collecting data from German WhatsApp users and delete all the data it has received and stored through the messaging application. The Hamburg Commissioner for […]
EU’s Plan for Extending National ID Cards Use to Social Media Actually Deprives Users of their Right to Online Privacy! We have been informing you all along regarding the way government institutions are constantly thinking of ways to spy upon our internet browsing and social media communications. This latest news is simply a re-affirmation of […]
HACKING TEAM YET AGAIN IN HOT WATER, LOSES LICENSE TO SELL MALWARE OUTSIDE EUROPE Just a year after it was hacked, the Milan-based government spyware creator Hacking Team is in hot soup again. This time, it’s done by “The Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE)” and not by some hacktivist, the Hacking team ended up […]
The European Commission (EC) has decided to end anonymous virtual currency Bitcoin trading to track money-laundering that “helps terrorist group funding”. The EC published its Action Plan (PDF) yesterday, to intensify the fight against terrorism financing because as per the commission’s analysis criminals quickly find out newer strategies and techniques to move money through undetectable ways. […]
A trio of Russian hackers revealed numerous bugs in the train systems of many of Europe’s railway companies, saying that hackers and terrorists can easily exploit them to derail or even hijack the trains. After hacking jeep, sniper rifle and electronic skateboards, it’s time for trains to get some taste as three Russian hackers have […]
Palo Alto Networks researchers have identified a unique malware that infects home PCs and transforms them into internet proxies using HTTP tunnel. As per Palo Alto researchers, a Russian company’s domain is being used by attackers, which inherently is a patent Web proxy service. The malware has been named ProxyBack and it was firstly discovered […]
ShortRead: The online hacktivist Anonymous has breached the subdomains of the European Space Agency website and leaked personal and login credentials of thousands of subscribers and officials — The reason for targeting the agency? Well, ”We did it for the Lulz” says Anonymous. Earlier today, Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the European Space Agency (ESA) website (due.esrin.esa.int, […]
The world’s most widely proactive malware group Dorkbot and all of its associated Botnets have been disrupted. This disruption was made possible by the combined efforts of international law enforcement agencies with the support of prominent security and technology companies including Microsoft. According to Wil van Gemert, the Europol deputy director of operations who was […]
The ISIS hackers just hacked a high-profile website funded by the European Union. A group of pro-Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) hackers going with the handle of Cyber Islamic State hacked and defaced the official website of “The State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia” (eu-nato.gov.ge) earlier today. The Islamic State hackers left a deface page along with […]