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U.S citizen sentenced 10 years in prison for Massive DDOS attacks against 2 hospitals on U.S Boston Children’s Hospital and Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in 2014. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, convicted for launching massive DDoS attacks and the attack was launched more than a week that caused the facility to spend $18,000. He was […]
He conducted those DDoS attacks for #OpJustina back in 2014. In April 2014, Martin Gottesfeld (34) from Massachusetts claimed his affiliation with the online hacking group Anonymous and conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) on Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth Family Support. Gottesfeld further maintained that the DDoS attacks were against hospital’s alleged bad treatment […]
A hacker managed to infiltrate Australian emergency warning system Early Warning Network (EWN). The hacker accessed the system and sent countless messages to random citizens informing them that “you’ve been hacked.” However, the warning service’s managing director Kerry Plowright claims that someone did infiltrate and accessed the system but user information hasn’t been exposed. Plowright […]
The year 2018 is now a thing of the past yet it has established a memory that will haunt victims of biggest data breaches and hacking incidents for years. Today, we will be discussing some of the biggest data breaches and hacking incidents of 2018 which took users by storm. “2018 not only shocked the world by highlighting […]
The official website of Luas, a tram and light rail system in Dublin, Ireland was hacked on Thursday, January 3rd after a hacker defaced its homepage and left a message demanding ransom payment of 1 Bitcoin (BTC). In their deface message, an unknown hacker claimed that Luas was informed about “serious security holes” in their system which the […]
On Monday when the whole world was gearing up to celebrate New Year’s Eve hackers from The Dark Overlord group made astonishing claims that they stole a trove of data from Hiscox Syndicates Ltd, a law firm responsible for handling insurance files related to 9/11 terrorist attacks. This was reported by MotherBoard after a Pastebin […]
It is believed that the malware attack was carried out from outside the United States. The Los Angeles Times suffered a malware attack earlier this Saturday that disrupted printing and delivery process for several of its print editions across the country, the newspaper said. The malware attack, according to LA Times, was conducted from “outside” the […]
A warning has been issued by the Concord, California-based alcoholic beverages retailer BevMo informing its customers about a data breach that its online store experienced between 2 August and 26 September. During the attack, credit card data of its customers was exposed. “BevMo takes the privacy of our customers’ personal information seriously and we deeply […]
The data breach against North Korean Defectors came after hackers targeted computer at Resettling agency. Private data of approx. 1,000 North Korean Defectors present in the South have been exposed in a data breach which makes them vulnerable to all sorts of threats from the North, claims the officials from the Unification Ministry. According to […]
Authorities have seized and shut down 15 popular DDoS-for-hire websites used by cybercriminals for revenge and DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks on private individuals as well as businesses including online gaming giants, email service providers and hosting sites. The operation against the DDoS-for-hire websites was a result of joint cooperation between the FBI ‘Federal Bureau of […]
Last month, November 26, 2018, we published here in Hackercombat the story about cybercriminals phishing all the way, while their potential victims are making a lot of shopping online in preparation of the coming Holiday Season. Our story today is a follow-up of our previous one, this time with Tony Anscombe, Global Security Evangelist & […]
Hackers of Chinese origin have stolen data from US Navy contractors whose content includes highly confidential information on advanced military technologies. In June this year, it was reported that Chinese hackers stole 614 gigabytes of US Navy’s anti-ship missile data. Now, authorities in the United States have once again accused Chinese hackers of stealing secret data belonging […]
The attack was carried out by Iran-backed charming kitten hackers and victims include dozens of US government officials. Private emails of US sanctions officials and nuclear scientists have been breached by Iranian state-sponsored hackers. As per the data obtained by Certfa, a cybersecurity firm based in London, the hacking group Charming Kitten is responsible for the […]
PrivilegeEsc-Linux is a simple script which checks the security on a Linux machine. It can run many different options, such as for checking the OS version, the environment , the apps and services, the upload options and more. Mainly focus is to enumerate everything it can in a Linux Machine and with this information you […]
Researchers discovered 22 malicious Android apps that uploaded in Google playstore with Sophisticated click fraud functionality affected around 2 million Android users. Some of the malicious apps are unnoticed for a month and year, some of the apps were uploaded in June 2018 and one of the malicious flashlight apps alone downloaded around 1 million […]
MassExploitConsole is a python based easy-to-use cli tool for executing exploits. It has a collection of exploits to execute, built-in scanner for enumeration, built-in crawler and proxychains to hide your ip address. Installing mEC Clone the repository, go to the folder and run the install script. git clone https://github.com/jm33-m0/mec.git cd mec/ ./install.py Type ‘yes‘ to […]
Kalitorify is a shell based script for Kali Linux. It uses iptables and TOR to create a transparent proxy. In simple terms, this means that all your network traffic can be redirected through TOR. It is based on Parrot AnonSurf , which is a popular module in Parrot OS to ‘torify’ your traffic. Installing Kalitorify […]
Quora hacked – Change your password now. Another day, another data breach – This time Quora, a question-and-answer website, has suffered a massive data breach in which personal data of 100 million registered users has been stolen, the company said on Tuesday, December 4th. In a blog post, Quora’s Chief Executive Adam D’Angelo explained that the […]
Sotheby’s, an American multinational corporation and Auction House has become another victim of Magecart attack after hackers gained access to Sotheby’s home website and inserted a card-skimming code aiming at customers’ credit card and banking data. Although Sotheby’s detected the intrusion on 10th October 2018 the malware was present on its website and stealing personal and financial data of […]
The first cable-car service was launched in Moscow this Tuesday, and free rides to and from Luzhniki Stadium were promised to the visitors throughout the first month. Naturally, people were eager to ride the cable-car and thronged the location. However, much to their dismay, only after a few days the service got attacked with ransomware. […]
Moscow’s first ever cable car system was forced to shut down within two hours after the launch. Cybercriminals hacked into the cable car system and infected with ransomware. The cyber attack forced all the passengers to leave the cable car and the police reported that the cable car will no longer work. An unknown person […]