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Dutch banks ABN Amro and Rabobank affected by DDOS attacks on May 27, which has affected their online banking system with offline servers. Information security experts commented that malicious actors launched DDoS attacks against two bank servers and overloaded the affected traffic to the websites. A group of information security professionals explain, DDoS attacks are when several […]
The same hacker was once known as “international hacker-for-hire.” Karim Baratov, 23, a Canadian hacker who in November 2017 pleaded guilty to hacking charges related to a massive data breach in which 500 million Yahoo accounts were compromised has been sentenced five years in prison – Baratov was arrested in March from Hamilton, Ontario. Yahoo suffered a data breach in 2014 […]
In total, researchers have identified 14 vulnerabilities in Multiple Internet-Connected BMW vehicles putting them at risk of being hacked. Old times were trouble-free when we could live without the fear of our home appliances being monitored without our permission and our cars being hacked remotely. Today, almost every car has a computer or silicon chip installed, […]
Hackers have stolen financial data of thousands of customers – Reportedly 50,000 from BMO and 40,000 customers from CIBC have been affected. Hackers have targeted two mainstream Canadian banks, as a result, financial information of roughly 90,000 customers has been stolen. One of the two banks happens to be the Bank of Montreal (BMO), Canada’s fourth-largest lender […]
The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught others how to carry cyber attacks and scams. Grant West, a notorious Dark Web hacker from Britain has been sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison for hacking hundreds of companies, stealing data of millions of customers and selling it on Dark Web marketplaces. […]
John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for conducting sustained DDoS attacks (distributed denial of service) against his ex-employer Washburn Computer Group, a point-of-sale system repair company. Gammell was arrested and charged in November 2017 with hiring cyber attackers to perform DDoS attacks on the company’s cyberinfrastructure between July 2015 to September 2016 […]
Hackers are conducting Double Spend attack on cryptocurrency exchanges and the latest victim is Bitcoin Gold. It is claimed that cryptocurrencies operate a lot more privately and safely than traditional currencies. But, it has been observed time and again that the security measures used to safeguard cryptocurrency are lackluster and benefit cybercriminals greatly. So far, quite a […]
It is believed that the botnet was run by infamous Russian hacking group Fancy Bear. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized a domain believed to be hosting a botnet of 500,000 compromised routers and other IoT devices – The domain is believed to be operated by Russian hackers from Fancy Bear or Sofacy hacking […]
Another day, another Monero cryptocurrency mining malware hits unsuspected users worldwide – This one crashes your system once the anti-virus software attempts to delete it. The IT security researchers at 360 Total Security have discovered a nasty piece of malware infecting Windows-based devices to mine Monero cryptocurrency by using their computing power (CPU) and slowing down its performance. Dubbed WinstarNssmMiner […]
StalinLocker ransomware gives victim ten minutes to put the code or watch their data being completely erased – There are no ransom demands. Researchers have discovered a new ransomware that pays tribute to Joseph Stalin, the controversial leader of the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s. Dubbed “StalinLocker,” the malware infects targeted devices and gives […]
Serbian authorities have arrested a 38-year-old man from Belgrade suspected of being one of the members of The Dark Overlord or DarkOverlord hacking group. The identity of the arrested suspect has not been revealed yet but according to the limited details shared by Serbian authorities he is a resident of Belgrade whose initials are “S.S.” The arrest came as […]
Another day, another DDoS attack causing passengers a great deal of trouble. The largest train operating company in Danmark “Danske Statsbaner” (DSB or Danish State Railways) suffered a massive DDoS attack (distributed denial-of-service) on Sunday causing service disruption across the country. The DDoS attack was quite powerful as it halted train operations and blocked travelers from […]
As we begin to discuss the different phases of a cyber attack, let’s not forget that things are changing drastically as regards the cyber security industry. Hacks today are being executed in a very different way and hackers are resorting to using all kinds of innovative techniques. If you examine the recent attacks that targeted […]
The city of Riverside’s Police and Fire department has been hit by a ransomware attack once again – This means the department has come under cyber attack for the second time in the last few weeks. Previously, the same department was under ransomware attack on April 23rd, 2018, in which unknown hackers compromised its computer […]
On May 10th, 2018, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a cyber attack on the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing its subdomain against the ongoing censorship in the country especially the recent ban on the encrypted messaging app Telegram. If you are not familiar with the situation in Russia, […]
A hacker who hacked and defaced more than 11,000 websites including the official website of New York’s West Point Military Academy and the website of New York’s Controller Scott Stringer has been arrested from Los Angeles County, California. Billy Anderson, 41, used the name “AlfabetoVirtual” as his online handle to hack and deface government websites around the […]
A Romanian cybercriminal has been sentenced to one year in US federal prison for conducting DDoS attacks on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft‘s European servers back in 2010. The 38-year-old Calin Mateias from Bucharest pleaded guilty in February this year to one count of intentional damage to a protected computer. Since pleading guilty, Mateias has paid $30,000 in restitution to Blizzard Entertainment. He was sentenced by United […]
It looks like these spyware developers are fans of popular porn star Mia Khalifa. Researchers at security firm Trend Micro have identified a dangerous new spyware that is being distributed via adult games. Dubbed as Maikspy spyware, the main target of this malicious new campaign are Android and Windows users. The primary objective of this […]
You have heard about ride-sharing companies like Uber and Careem becoming victims of large-scale cyber attacks but now a bike sharing company has been hacked after falling for a damaging cyber attack. The computer system responsible for controlling and managing operations of Denmark’s Copenhagen city’s bicycle sharing system “Bycyklen” was hacked over the weekend by […]
Last week the world witnessed cyber-confrontation between Turkish and Greek hackers. On Monday Turkish hackers from Akincilar (Invaders) team hijacked the Greek state-run ANA-MPA news agency’s webpage and posted a message written in Turkish and English with accusations of Greece’s support for terrorists. After that the hackers defaced the official Greek webpage of Japanese automaker […]
Cyber criminals all the world over today show an increasing trend to illicitly generate cryptocurrency through mining; they’d steal currencies from exchanges and wallets and would devise new ways of denying service for extortion as well as for revenge. As the value of cryptocurrencies keep growing and as the uses of cryptocurrencies become more legitimate, […]