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United States has warned of more ransomware attacks on information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) networks of country’s Water and Wastewater Systems (WWS) Sector facilities. On Thursday, multiple US government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Security Agency […]
State-backed hackers have been constantly exploiting vulnerabilities in VPNs to breach critical cyberinfrastructure in the United States, agencies have warned. The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published guidelines to secure virtual private networks (VPNs). The guidelines came after the departments noticed a rise […]
An ongoing brute-force attack campaign targeting enterprise cloud environments has been spearheaded by the Russian military intelligence since mid-2019, according to a joint advisory published by intelligence agencies in the U.K. and U.S. The National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the U.K.’s National Cyber Security […]
Researchers found the existence of the new APT Framework named “DarkUniverse” using Tips from a script that used in the NSA breach in 2017 in which, shadow brokers published their well-known ‘Lost in Translation’ Hacking tools leak. “Lost in Translation” cyber-espionage campaign leaked some of the deadliest exploits such as DarkPulsar, Eternal Blue that cause […]
Edward Snowden, the former CIA agent and NSA contractor who leaked troves of secret documents in 2013, has written a memoir that is expected to be released on September 17. Although multiple books and films based on Snowden’s story have been released to date, this one is special because it comes from the whistleblower himself. […]
The BlueKeep RDP bug (CVE-2019-0708) in Microsoft Windows is a serious issue and it has been making rounds for almost a month now. As you might know, it affects older Windows versions including Windows 7 and XP. Microsoft first revealed details about the bug last month and also released a security patch for all the […]
And while NSA cybersecurity adviser Rob Joyce called the tool a “contribution to the nation’s cybersecurity community” in announcing it at RSA, it will no doubt be used far beyond the United States. Ghidra is not a tool that facilitates you to hack a device. It is a reverse engineering platform that is used to […]
This time the hacking tool being used is EternalBlue. The New York Times has reported that the recent ransomware attacks in major US cities specifically Baltimore are closely linked together due to the fact that the key component in all the campaigns is a stolen NSA tool EternalBlue. Interestingly, attackers are using NSA’s own designed […]
According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the National Security Agency (NSA) has recommended the White House to discard the notorious mass phone surveillance programme owing to logistics and legal challenges. However, the NSA used to defend its surveillance programme fervently, saying it was vital for national security. NSA’s Mass Data Collection Programme […]
The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took place after Ecuadorian president Lenin Moreno withdrew Assange’s asylum for “repeatedly […]
GHIDRA is NSA’s reverse engineering tool released earlier this month. Earlier this month, Hackread.com posted about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) publicly releasing its decompiler and disassembler tool GHIDRA and make it open-source software. Now, it has been revealed that the generic reverse engineering tool has a flaw that can be exploited by cybercriminals for carrying […]
Recently we informed that the National Security Agency’s (NSA) plans to release GHIDRA, the famous reverse engineering tool in March. As per latest reports, the NSA has released GHIDRA and the open-source world can now use it easily. This is quite unlike the other cybersecurity tools so far associated with the NSA because it is […]
It’s not a hidden fact that the National Security Agency (NSA) develops and uses many powerful and in-house security tools for carrying out different “important” tasks. Ghidra is one such well-known software reverse engineering toolkit that the agency has been using for a long time. At 2019’s RSA security conference, the NSA open sourced the […]
According to a report published by Politico, Kaspersky Lab helped the National Security Agency (NSA) identify the contractor who stole classified NSA documents and was charged for the crime in 2016. As per the sources who revealed the information to Politico, two people played a key role in tipping off the NSA regarding the contractor […]
WikiLeaks Fame Reverse Engineering Tool GHIDRA to be Released in March. GHIDRA is a reverse engineering tool developed by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA). According to reports, this framework will be released in March at the RSAConference. This is the same reverse engineering tool to which WikiLeaks referred to in its March 2017 […]
It’s not a hidden fact that NSA is probably the most capable creator of hacking tools that can penetrate different computing platforms and sniff useful information. Last year, things took a surprising turn when NSA’s powerful hacking tools were leaked online. Since that leak, those tools and exploits are being used by notorious elements all […]
“We kill people based on metadata,” said Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director, in 2014. But what is it and why should you care about it? Although it was coined in the 60’s, experts in digital forensics believe that the term “metadata” became public domain until the 21st century, due to the leaks of […]
Cryptomining based Wannamine malware outbreak still actively attacking the windows users around the globe that using NSA exploit Eternalblue to penetrate the unpatched SMB enabled computers to gain high privileged access. Eternalblue Exploit leaked from NSA last year that made a huge impact around the world by exploiting the SMB flow and that leads to massive WannaCry and NotPetya attacks. Many […]
The story about the cyber weapon that attacked several enterprises around the world Andy Greenberg is a veteran cyber security organization reporter who has kept up with the chaotic and frightening world of cyberwar since its earliest days; in a forthcoming book, Greenberg tells the tale about the fascinating and terrible story of Notpetya, a Russian […]
Apple is generally considered reliable in making safe and secure software. It is widely believed that the company works really hard to make the defense mechanism of its OS and devices strong enough to evade malware infections and another malicious coding. However, days of blindly trusting any firm including Apple are long gone..or so it […]
Polar Flow, an app developed by Polar, a Finland based sports gadgets manufacture has been found exposing personal and sensitive details of millions of users around the globe including location data of those working for law enforcement organizations, intelligence agencies, and military bases etc. As a result, the company has suspended its Explore feature to avoid further […]