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Netgear LAN Switch and Nighthawk Pro Gaming Router (XR500) Offers Reliable Safeguards Against DDoS Attacks. Netgear has introduced a pair of gaming-oriented connectivity products offering a wide range of customization and prioritization options. The first device is the XR500 gaming router, which is basically an updated version of Nighthawk Pro line from Netgear. The second […]
The 2018 Olympic Winter Games will be held in Pyeongchang in February 2018 but malware attacks against the event have already begun. According to McAfee researchers, hackers are trying to target the upcoming Winter Olympics due to be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. As per the findings from McAfee, cybercriminals are hunting for sensitive data from […]
2017 is over, but memories of some of the biggest hacking and data breach related incidents will haunt victims for a long time. Today, we will be highlighting biggest hacking incidents of 2017 including malware attacks leading to ransomware infection or a simple email that turned out to be a phishing email and stole millions […]
There is a reason there has been an increase in cyber attacks since anyone can access hacking tools – Same goes for Todd Michael Gori from North-Carolina. Who doesn’t want to get hired at a firm of his or her choice? Apparently, some individuals take it too seriously and use various measures in order to impress their […]
Remember Lizard Squad? Yes, a group of DDoS attackers who caused havoc by attacking tech giants, gaming servers, and small businesses back in 2014. Apparently, the people who created Lizard Squad were also behind creating PoodleCorp group who took things to a whole new level by hacking YouTube accounts of popular celebrities and conducting DDoS against gaming […]
The automotive giant Nissan says its operations in Canada has been hit by a cyber attack in which personal data of 1.13 million Nissan Canada Finance and INFINITI Financial Services customers have been compromised. The company discovered “unauthorized persons” breached its servers on December 11th and accessed personal information of its customers who used its services to finance their vehicles. According […]
In Feb 2017, two people were arrested in the United Kingdom for hacking security cameras in Washington DC. Now, D.C. police have revealed their identity and said that two suspects of Romanian origin were arrested for hacking into security cameras and outdoor surveillance systems deployed by the law enforcement. According to the police, the primary objective behind […]
Cybercriminals have their eyes set on mining cryptocurrencies and exploiting cryptocurrency exchanges for their malicious purposes. According to reports, another popular cryptocurrency exchange EtherDelta has been hacked in such a way that users are sending their tokens to the hacker considering that the exchange is receiving them. So far at least 308ETH (equivalent to $266,789) […]
The South Korean Bitcoin exchange Youbit, previously known as Yapizon has quit its operation and filed for bankruptcy due to two cyber attacks in last eight months. The first data breach to impacted Youbit took place on April 22nd, 2017 in which hackers stole 3816.2028 Bitcoin (US$5 million at that time) which was 37% of user funds. In their latest announcement, […]
On December 12, 2017, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex announced its servers were under a series of massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. On December 17th however, the company said its platform is suffering a “heavy DDoS” attack once again. In a tweet on Sunday afternoon, Bitfinex said that “Platform is currently under heavy DDOS, we […]
The current price of 1 Bitcoin is almost USD 20,000 and those who cannot invest in cryptocurrencies find other ways get some. On Friday 15th December, Russian authorities said that Transneft, a state-owned largest oil pipeline company in the world suffered a cyber attack in which its computers were hacked to generate Monero digital currency. According to Reuters, […]
Cybersecurity firm FireEye’s Mandiant subsidiary responded to an incident caused by a new malware attempting to target Industrial safety systems of a critical infrastructure plant. The Triconex industrial safety technology developed by Schneider Electric SE was targeted with the malware with the sole aim of causing physical damages. The malware has been dubbed as TRITON […]
Last month, Mozilla joined hands with HaveIbeenpwned, a data breach index website, the purpose of it was to alert users when they visit a website that was previously compromised since the trend of hiding data breaches is growing among companies and businesses regardless of their status. Tripwire tool Now, the IT security researchers at University of […]
Worlds Leading IT Security firm Fox-IT hitting by Man-in-the-Middle Cyber Attack and an attacker accessed the DNS records for the Fox-IT.com at their 3 rd party domain register. This attack leads to spying some small amount of their customer’s activities and this incident has been active the total effective MitM time to 10 hours and 24 […]
A group of three hackers have pleaded guilty to their role in developing, spreading and using Mirai malware botnet to conduct large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on some of the Internet’s most popular websites and Dyn DNS, a prominent Domain Name Servers (DNS) service provider. Pleading guilty In a proceeding that took place in US District Court for Alaska on November 28th, Paras […]
The IT security researchers at Moscow based cybercrime prevention firm Group-IB has identified the presence of a dangerous and sophisticated group of cybercriminals that has so far stolen more than $10 million from banking and financial sectors. Dubbed MoneyTaker by researchers, the group has in last 18 months conducted 20 successful attacks in Russia, United […]
Bitfinex, known as one of the world largest cryptocurrency exchange was forced to shut down its ongoing operations after suffering a series of non-stop distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Tuesday, December 12th. Based in Hong Kong, Bitfinex used its Twitter account to inform its customers about the situation and stated that “We are currently under heavy […]
In 2014, Yahoo announced that it had suffered a massive data breach in which 500 million user accounts containing emails and passwords were stolen. The company only got to know about the breach in September 2016, and labeled it as work of a ‘state-sponsored actor.’ On Tuesday 28th, Karim Baratov, a Canadian citizen, appeared in a San Francisco federal court […]
Security researchers at the Austin based Anti-virus software firm Forcepoint have discovered a massive spam ransomware campaign in which the Scarab malware destroys all your files if you don’t pay the ransom, which is asked in Bitcoin. The campaign was started on 23rd November while attackers have used the largest email spam botnet on the […]
HBO suffered a massive data breach in July and August this year in which network’s unaired episodes of popular TV series were leaked online. The alleged culprit behind Home Box Office (HBO) hacking spree has been identified. His name according to the FBI is Behzad Mesri and is an Iranian citizen. Those not familiar with the HBO hack, in […]
It’s surprising to some and shocking to many. Despite a rough phase that the US-based ride-hailing service has been passing through amidst allegations of sexual harassment, federal criminal probes, and trade secrets theft lawsuit, we did believe in the legitimacy of Uber as a service provider. However, Bloomberg has burst the bubble for Uber users. […]