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A Most Famous Sofware CCleaner Hacked and Distributing Floxif Malware from Download server of Leading Anti-Virus Vendor AVAST and more than 2 million Users Infected by this Malware. CCleaner is a subsidy of AVAST that released legitimate signed version of CCleaner 5.33 with a Malicious payload that rode on top of the installation of CCleaner. CCleaner is an […]
LiteBit.eu — a multi-currency exchange based in the Netherlands — has suffered data breaches two months in a row. According to emails sent to affected customers after each event, no Bitcoin or altcoin funds were stolen in any of these two incidents. The company says the attacker only pilfered user personal information, such as emails, […]
The 29-year old hacker, who is referred to as Hacker Bestbuy, has reportedly admitted to hijacking over 9 lac routers from the Deutsche Telekom network. BestBuy had hijacked the Deutsche Telekom network routers using a custom version of the Mirai IoT malware, which he himself had modified. He has reportedly admitted that he hadn’t intended […]
Each day hundreds of websites on the Internet are hacked and the owners of the websites are clueless as to why it happens. Hacked websites is a terrible thing that causes a lot of stress and inconvenience. It’s not just about repairing the damaged files and hoping this experience doesn’t happen again. This is not […]
Deep Hosting — a Dark Web hosting service — admitted yesterday to suffering a major security incident during which “some sites have been exported.” The hack took place on Saturday afternoon and was carried out by a hacker calling himself Dhostpwned, the name he used when he spoke with Bleeping Computer earlier today. Hacker used […]
Worlds Fourth Largest Cryptocurrency called “Bithumb ” hacked by unknown hackers and stolen around 31,800 Bithumb users account details which are 3% of the platform’s entire userbase. Many Bithumb users data such as an e-mail address, mobile phone numbers and other Personal information has been leaked by this breach. Few Weeks before Biggest Bitcoin Wallet […]
British police announced today they arrested two suspects part of an international group that hacked into Microsoft’s network. The two suspects are a 22-year-old man from Lincolnshire and a 25-year-old man from Bracknell. The South East Regional Organised Crime Unit (SEROCU) arrested the two this morning, searched their homes for evidence, and seized a number […]
Check Point researchers revealed a new attack vector which threatens millions of users worldwide – attack by subtitles. By crafting malicious subtitle files, which are then downloaded by a victim’s media player, attackers can take complete control over any type of device via vulnerabilities found in many popular streaming platforms, including VLC, Kodi (XBMC), Popcorn-Time […]
I was recently invited to take part in some research by BBC Click, alongside Professor Alan Woodward, to analyse a device that had quite a lot of people all excited. With slick marketing, catchy tag lines and some pretty bold claims about their security, nomx claim to have cracked email security once and for all. […]
The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a security breach that may affect people who purchased tours and other services on its website. Did you visit the Hawaii in last year? The tour company Roberts Hawaii is warning its customers about a data breach that may affect people who purchased tours from July […]
A huge number of Gmail accounts lockout their users and forced them to log in again. What has happened? Is it the result of a massive cyber attack? A huge number of Gmail accounts lockout the users, the strange behavior leads the experts into believing that something has happened. Is it a computer glitch or a […]
There’s a disturbing possibility that the Mexican government, the soda industry, or some combination of both used spyware to harass health advocates who support Mexico’s soft-drink tax. According to a new report by Citizen Lab, an outfit at the University of Toronto that investigates hacking, somebody harassed them — it’s just a question of who, […]
Home Ministry’s website mha.nic.in hacked; Hackers exploited Drupal vulnerability Unknown hackers today used a Drupal exploit to hack mha.nic.in, which is Indian government’s Ministry of Home Affairs website. Immediately after the website was hacked, National Informatics Center which maintains the website, took it offline. Indian CERT-In, the computer emergency response team is investigating into the […]
For many of us hacking of printers seems to be next to impossible thing. But, a hacker has hacked more than 150,000 printers via the internet. The attack affected all kinds of printers- from home devices to shop receipt printers. The printers were hijacked and were instructed to churn out pages and print out strange […]
Anonymous hacker breached Freedom Hosting II and taken down 10,613 .onion sites. Hackers focused on the prominent Tor hosting provider since it was giving its services to an expansive number of sites sharing child pornography image. The cyber assault was initially spotted by Sarah Jamie Lewis, a security scientist at mascherari.press, who saw the mass […]
An unidentified hacker reportedly breached the XBOX 360 and PlayStation Portable ISO forums compromising 2.5 million gamer accounts. The breaches occurred approximately around September 2015 and compromised email addresses, account passwords and IP addresses, according to independent researcher Troy Hunt. Gamers who use the accounts are advised to reset the passwords for all of their […]
In the latest case of a hacking company being hacked, details by the crew that claims to have spirited away login info and other data from the cell phone-cracking company. According to a report from the Motherboard, an unnamed hacker has breached Cellebrite’s systems and managed to steal 900 Gb of data. The data includes […]
Short Bytes: A hacker has claimed to have breached the content management system used by the FBI. The hacker uses Twitter handle @CyberZeist and claims to have dumped email addresses and hashes on Pastebin. The fbi.gov’s server was hosted on an outdated FreeBSD VM, according to the hacker. A hacker, who operates the Twitter handle […]
A hacking group from Russia used a malware implant on Android devices to track and target Ukrainian artillery units from late 2014 through 2016, according to a new report released Thursday. The malware was able to retrieve communications and some locational data from infected devices, intelligence that would have likely been used to strike against […]
Short Bytes: A security researcher has exploited a flaw in macOS and used his $300 device and open source software to hack a sleeping Mac. The loophole is related to Mac’s way of storing passwords in memory. Apple has released a patch in macOS 10.11.12 update, and the users are advised to grab it. Last month, we […]
In January, Motherboard reported on the FBI’s “unprecedented” hacking operation, in which the agency, using a single warrant, deployed malware to over one thousand alleged visitors of a dark web child pornography site. Now, it has emerged that the campaign was actually several orders of magnitude larger. In all, the FBI obtained over 8,000 IP […]