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North Korean Government Sponsored Hacking Team Member Charged for Wannacry Ransomware and Sony Cyber Attack

North Korean Government sponsored APT “Lazarus Group,” member Park Jin Hyok charged for conspiracy to various most destructive Wannacry and Sony Cyber Attack. Lazarus Group conspiracy attacks conducted against various sectors such as entertainment, financial services, defense, technology, and virtual currency industries, academia, and electric utilities. Their activities including the development of various malware that […]

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Callisto APT Group exploited Hacking Team surveillance tools to hack Government targets

The Callisto APT Group borrowed the source code leaked by hackers that broke into Hacking Team network. According to F-Secure Labs, The Callisto APT Group used the HackingTeam leaked surveillance software to gather intelligence on foreign and security policy in eastern Europe and the South Caucasus. The Callisto APT group targeted government officials, military personnel, journalists and think tanks since […]

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Hackers using leaked hacking tools to target Governments

Thanks to ex-NSA spy, Edward Snowden, we all know that Governments use several hacking tools and malware to spy on public and most of the times they get away with that, but here is a plot twist. A group of hackers called “Calisto” exploited a malware previously used by the Italian surveillance firm, Hacking Team, […]

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Active drive-by exploits critical Android bugs, care of Hacking Team

Hostile JavaScript delivered through ads installs ransomware on older Android phones. An ongoing drive-by attack is forcing ransomware onto Android smartphones by exploiting critical vulnerabilities in older versions of Google’s mobile operating system still in use by millions of people, according to research scheduled to be published Monday. The attack combines exploits for at least two […]

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Hacking Team’s Licence Canceled, No More Malware Selling Outside Europe

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 […]

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500 Million Devices at Risk Due to Leaked “Easy to Use” RCSAndroid Malware

The massive data breach at the Hacking Team has resulted in tons of revelations regarding different kinds of spyware and the potential security threats. Dozens of malicious codes are now available to hackers, and companies like Adobe, Microsoft etc. are issuing patches for the same. One the latest discoveries resulting from the breach could be of […]

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FBI Used Hacking Team’s Help to Track Tor User

Earlier this month, as a part of the massive breach at the infamous Hacking Team, numerous documents were leaked. Since then, analysts are busy going through them and new revelations are greeting us each day. In the same process, leaked documents have revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) communicated with Hacking Team to […]

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Congrats Hacking Team: After Governments, Now Terrorists Have Your Tools

This Sunday, in a massive data breach at the Hacking Team, about 400GB of internal documents, spyware source codes, and tools were exposed. Now the internet enemy Hacking Team is complaining that its tools to inject malware in PCs are now with terrorist and extortionists. The Italian security firm has issued a statement on its […]

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Terrorists Can Use Our Leaked RCS Spyware, Hacking Team Says

The infamous spyware dealer, Hacking Team, has now begun to complain that their recently leaked Remote Control System (RCS) spyware tool which can be used to infect targeted computers with malware are now in the hands of criminals and terrorists. Actually, from one perspective, this Italian-based security firm is not wrong. Recently, their leaked source […]

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Hacking The Hacking Team Shows Regimes Love Spying on Its Citizens

The Italy-based security firm Hacking Team, known for providing spying tools to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in U.S has been hacked.  This Sunday evening, the infamous security firm’s Twitter handle got hacked and someone used it to proclaim that the company which is well known for the development of different hacking tools has itself […]

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Hacking Team Becomes “Hacked Team”, Firm Sold Spying Tech to Governments

Hacking Team, a controversial company from Italy which specializes in selling powerful surveillance equipment to governments and their enforcement agencies, has been hacked. This attack resulted in about 400GB data leakage. Earlier today, in a series of tweets on the compromised Twitter handler of the Hacking Team, the unknown hackers revealed a torrent with 400GB […]

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