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The data is available on a searchable website called DoxaGram. As reported on Thursday the social media giant Instagram suffered a massive data breach in which an unknown hacker or hackers stole a trove of personal data from verified accounts (top celebrities) and ended up trading them on underground hacking forums. The data was stolen when attackers exploited a bug […]
Cybercriminals are becoming more and more skilled regarding technological advancement and sophisticated planning techniques. The latest ransomware campaign is a true case of how hackers can trap users and cause widespread damage by simple tweaking of an already lethal malware. According to security experts at AppRiver, the notorious Locky ransomware is back in action with […]
Daniel ‘BestBuy’ Kaye Extradited to the UK— Hacker Charged for Crashing Cyber Infrastructure of British and German Organizations using Millions of Mirai botnets. Daniel Kaye who used nicknames “BestBuy and Popopret” was accused of carrying out a series of cyber-attacks against high-profile banks in the UK including Lloyds, Bank of Scotland and Barclays using the mighty […]
WikiLeaks suffered a cyber attack earlier today, but that couldn’t stop the whistleblowing platform from publishing the latest trove of data of CIA’s Vault 7 series documents. Codenamed project Angelfire, the set of five hacking tools was developed to target unsuspecting users on Windows operating system including Windows XP and Windows 7. According to leaked documents, the tools were named […]
The official website of whistleblowing platform WikiLeaks was hacked Thursday morning by OurMine, a Saudi Arabia based hacking group. The hackers left a deface page along with a message on the homepage of the website explaining the reason for targeting WikiLeaks. According to the deface message: “Hi, it’s OurMine (Security Group), don’t worry we are just testing your…. blablablab, […]
Are you using Pacemaker device manufactured by Abbott Laboratories (previously St. Jude Medical)? If yes, this article is especially for you. It is no surprise that Pacemaker, the small device that is implanted in the body of a patient to deal with life-threatening cardiac rhythmic issues are open to critical vulnerabilities. Now, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has […]
Another day another breach. CeX Ltd., the United Kingdom based electronic retail giant, has suffered a data breach in which personal details of about 2 million customers have been stolen. The company is known for dealing in second-hand goods with 350 stores in the UK and more than 100 around the world. According to CeX’s blog post, […]
Why buy expensive MacBook Pro when you can get it for $1? But then you will be the bad guy. The IT security researchers at ERPScan discovered a bunch of critical vulnerabilities in SAP Point-of-Sales systems (SAP POS), a client/server point-of-sale (POS) solution allowing them to buy an expensive MacBook for just $1. According to […]
It looks like there is no place for DailyStormer on the regular web whatsoever. On August 24th (Thursday), DreamHost, a Los Angeles-based web hosting provider and domain name registrar suffered a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks affecting its servers causing connectivity issues. The attack affected company’s customer support, web and email services forcing a number of websites to […]
From IoT to IIoT everything seems vulnerable. A Seattle based cyber security firm IOActive has been researching upon robot related vulnerabilities of late, and a few months back they published a report providing a detailed description of this issue. They have been analyzing robots used in industries and businesses, and their subjects happen to be […]
The nightmare for Home Box Office (HBO) is not over yet as Mr.Smith, the hacker or group of hackers who breached and stole a trove of data from Network is back and threatening to leak Episode 7 from Season 7 of Game of Thrones, which is its finale. Hackers revealed this in a conversation with […]
OurMine, a Saudi Arabia based hacking group hacked the official social media platforms including Twitter and Facebook accounts of Sony‘s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Sunday. After taking over the PSN’s Twitter account with 14.6 million followers, the group started sending Tweets encouraging the Network to contact the group through its website to buy its IT security service […]
The retail giant Sports Direct’s website went down for 30m minutes which cost them the loss of sales of approx. £48,000 (USD 61540) to £50,000 (USD 64105). We already informed you that the retail giant suffered the data breach in February this year, but the latest report is quite surprising. Jason Polyik, the hacker responsible […]
According to the latest research from a collaborative team of researchers from Linklayer Labs, Politecnico di Milano and Trend Micro’s Forward-looking Threat Research (FTR) the modern vehicles are all plagued with a vulnerability that allows a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to be carried out. This vulnerability is so extensive that it would need a generation of cars […]
OurMine, a Saudi Arabia based hacking group hacked the official Twitter account of HBO and its Game of Thrones TV series on Wednesday night. Upon taking over the accounts, the group started sending their signature Tweets asking the HBO to contact the hackers so they can sell their IT security services to the network “Hi, OurMine are […]
LG Electronics’ service centers have been targeted by cyber criminals leading to ransomware infecting of its self-service kiosks and blocking it from functioning Monday morning. The electronic giant informed about the situation to South Korea‘s government owned cyber security agency KISA (Korea Internet & Security Agency) who was able to tackle the situation as the infection […]
The IT security researchers at CheckPoint cyber security firm headquartered in Israel and the US has revealed that the recent series of cyber crimes against oil (1), mining (2), construction, and energy sector organizations (3) were perpetrated by a young hacker and not any nation-state sponsored hacker group. It comes as a big surprise considering that […]
The web servers of Blizzard Entertainment have suffered a series of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks over the weekend causing disconnection and latency issues in Blizzard Games including World of Warcraft and Overwatch. The attacks started hitting Blizzard on August 13th when the company’s official customer support Twitter account stated that “We’re currently investigating an issue affecting our authentication […]
It looks like for now there is no end to the HBO hacking spree as earlier today the group of hackers behind breaching the Network’s system and stealing a trove of data has leaked unaired episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Insecure, Ballers, Barry and The Deuce TV series, reports the Associated Press. The latest leak does not include any new […]
“Ukrposhta,” the national postal service of Ukraine came under a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on Monday for over 48 hours (2 days) forcing the service to go offline. The postal service is run by the company’s Infrastructure Ministry and has 12,000 postal offices and 76,000 workers all over the country. Ukraine’s Interfax news agency reported that for […]
The ransom funds from the WannaCry attack were moved from Bitcoin to Monero, and now the barter included, are helping police to discover the culprits. Prior today, Cointelegraph reported on how ShapeShift was working with authorization of law after ransom money was sent to WannaCry programmers at the time the attack in May all of […]