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It is just another day with just another ATM malware targeting unsuspecting users – This time, the malware comes with cloning capabilities. According to the findings of Kaspersky Lab researchers, an old point-of-sale malware program Prilex has now been transformed into a full-fledged tool suite that allows cyber-crooks steal PIN card and chip data for […]
Hackers allegedly stole hundreds of reports using a security flaw in an online tool used by the police. In normal circumstances, police are the investigating authority but Gwent County Police in the United Kingdom is in hot water and being investigated for not informing complainers that reports they filed have been stolen by hackers. Apparently, Gwent Police […]
The financial services industry is crucial to the health of the UK economy – accounting for more than a million jobs (double that employed in agriculture, for example) and contributing more than £120 billion in gross value added. The country has a healthy trade surplus of £60 billion-plus in this sector – and it’s one […]
The APT15 hacking group has always been associated with Chinese intelligence and it has been part of quite a few, infamous hacking sprees. Now the same group has allegedly stolen information about UK’s military technology by compromising computer of a UK government contractor and launching a malware-based attack. As per the findings of NCC Group, […]
The Chinese cryptocurrency exchange Binance is offering a whopping $250,000 in Binance Coin (BNB) to anyone who can provide conclusive evidence against hackers and lead to prosecution and jail for attempting to hack the exchange on March 7th, 2018. Binance hit by phishing attack Binance exchange which allows people to trade cryptocurrencies for other assets […]
Cyber criminals performing a highly sophisticated attack using APT Malware called Slingshot to compromise routers and gain the administrator level access. Slingshot is one of the powerful cyber threat actor that mainly targeting individuals and organization and the major victims belong to Africa and the Middle East. Researchers identified a malicious library function injection technique in the […]
Exploitable Vulnerability in Softbank’s NAO and Pepper Robots Leads to Ransomware Infection. According to the findings of security firm IOActive Labs, there is a vulnerability in Softbank Robotics’ NAO and Pepper robots that can lead to devastating ransomware attacks by causing robots deployed at workplaces to stop working. The vulnerability is yet to be patched […]
Israeli police have arrested a 41-year-old man for allegedly hacking into the security surveillance camera system of a high-profile women’s boutique in northern Tel Aviv, and spying on undressed customers and recording footage of them while they tried on bathing suits. The victims include Israeli singer Eden Ben Zaken and fashion model Neta Alchimister. The identity of the arrested […]
By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to the masses since its proof of concept (PoC) code was recently published online. That exposure would now allow script kiddies to conduct large-scale DDoS attack as if the recent massive DDoS attack on Github and the world’s largest 1.7Tbps attack on an American firm weren’t enough. But […]
Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing the misconfigured Memcached servers to launch massive DDoS attacks. According to the observation of not one or two but three security firms, massive Memcached reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are being launched with an unprecedented intensification factor of 50,000, which is the largest […]
For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached servers to conducted DDoS attacks including the massive attack on Github website and world’s largest ever 1.7 Tbps of DDoS attack on a US firm. Until now, to the masses, it was unclear how hackers are exploiting the vulnerability in Memcached servers but now, a set […]
Researchers at the Purdue University and the University of Iowa, USA, have managed to break the key 4G LTE protocols for generation of fraudulent messages, spy upon users and modify user location data. Researchers Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz and Elisa Bertino from Purdue University and Omar Chowdhury from the University of Iowa collaborated to […]
Last week we reported on the world’s largest DDoS attack that hit Github website and caused a brief service disruption. The 1.35 Tbps DDoS attack was carried out by exploiting a recently exposed critical vulnerability in unsecured Memcached servers. Now, the IT security researchers at DDoS protection firm Arbor Networks have confirmed that a US service provider […]
In July of last year, an Israeli cryptocurrency venture called Coindash was preparing for the Initial Currency Offer (ICO), but as soon as the sale began, a hacker intercepted the company’s website and stole about 43,000 worth of Ethereum. At the time, the stolen cryptocurrency equivalent to the US $ 7.4 million, but today it costs approximately […]
A new cyber attack called “Operation Honeybee” deploying the SYSCON Backdoor Using MS Word to attack the humanitarian aid organizations. An SYSCON backdoor is a powerful malware that steals confidential information from victims device and sends it to a remote server using FTP Protocol. It abusing the MS word document that contains a Korean based political […]
After a brief hiatus, attackers have returned with a series of new DDoS attacks and this time they have introduced a new technique for launching DDoS attacks, which is much more devastating than before. According to the findings of IT security firm Akamai’s findings, attackers are now launching record-breaking DDoS attacks using a new method […]
The online version control and code distribution platform Github has suffered a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Wednesday, February 28, 2018, causing service disruption by forcing its website Github.com to go offline. In the first phase of the attack, Github’s website suffered a shocking 1.35 terabits per second (Tbps) spike while in the second phase Github’s network […]
It looks like the nightmare for Equifax users is far from over as today the consumer credit reporting giant has announced that according to its ongoing investigation, there are 2.4 million additional Equifax customers impacted by the massive 2017 data breach. Initially, Equifax claimed that 143 million Americans, which is over 40% of the entire population of the United States, […]
Unsecured Implementation of UDP Protocol Put Memcached Servers at Risk of DDoS Attacks. According to the findings of popular content delivery network/CDN specialists Cloudflare, Akamai and security provider firm Arbor Networks, the implementation of the Memcached servers’ UDP protocol is flawed and anyone can launch a major Distributed Denial of Service (DD0S) attack without much […]
Mirai IoT bot malware is one such piece of malicious coding that created quite a stir within the tech world by converting normal IoT devices into DDoS attack vectors. Originally created by an ex-Rutgers University student, Mirai malware has been resurfacing time and again since its initial launching in September 2016 and every time we […]
The developer of NanoCore RAT (remote access Trojan) has been sentenced to 33 months (2.75 years) in prison for promoting and selling the malware on a popular hacking forum HackForums between 2012 to 2016. The 27-year-old Taylor Huddleston (“Aeonhack” on HackForums) of Hot Springs, Arkansas was arrested in March 2017 and pleaded guilty in July to developing NanoCore malware and admitting that he […]