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Economist’s anti-ad blocking analytics service got hacked on 31st October (company’s officials didn’t disclose until 5th November) and the exposed site made users download a malware into their systems. The Economist runs a service for publishers that provides statistics on the percentage of users reading their content with ad blocking services on their site. The […]
A security researcher (Troy Hunt), who owns the website (haveibeenpwned) have discovered a possible breach of webhosting service 000Webhost servers. Basically, hunt’s site provides information on whether a user’s data has ever been breached online. So, an unknown user recently contacted the researcher and told him about a data breach taking place in an attack […]
Anonymous, the world famous hacktivist group, has now declared war on the Thai government due to its implementation of single internet gateway consolidation policy. CAT Telecom Pcl, the premier telecommunication website of Thailand, became the first target of Anonymous’ rage. CAT is a state-owned telecom firm that has been selected by Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut […]
The Egyptian branch of the online hacktivist Anonymous conducted a massive cyber attack on Egyptian government websites in solidarity with protesters killed in August 2013. On Thursday, the Egyptian presidency website went offline, which in reality was a hacking attempt made on the site. The attack was carried out by an Anonymous group, told a Cabinet […]
Two security firms (FireEye and Mandiant), have found a group of hackers (Fin5) who specialize in credit card stealing and have till date stolen 150,000 credit cards data from many unnamed casinos. Surprisingly, the hackers had the access to the databases of the casinos for the one complete year without being identified. The firms revealed this threat […]
Dow Jones Hacked by Russians for Obtaining Trading Tips — No one knows how much money the made. A group of Russian hackers infiltrated the servers of Dow Jones & Co., owner of the Wall Street Journal and several other news publications, and stole information to trade on before it became public, according to four […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous Belgian conducted a series of DDoS attacks on the official website of Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, the Brussels parliament and the website of Federal Public Services Home Affairs this Sunday. The attack was conducted under the banner #OpGuerilla. Anonymous took the accomplishment to Twitter, announcing that the group has […]
A hacker going with the online handle of Kuroi SH hacked and defaced several domains of the United States based Uniformed Services University and leaked 2014 login credentials online. Uniformed Services University (USU) is the country’s only Federal Health Sciences University whose primary mission is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home […]
A group of Brazilian hackers took over a couple of government-owned domains on Sunday posing the question, if these websites are so easy to hack imagine how easy it is for the American National Security Agency (NSA) to spy on Brazilians? The targeted authority is the Brazilian Institute of research and development in Astronomy, Geophysics and Metrology […]
The Subway system at the heart of Seoul, South Korea was hacked in 2014 and a local lawmaker claims that the culprit was North Korea. Ha Tae-keung, a lawmaker from the Saenuri Party revealed that the breach took place between March and August last year in which hackers were able to access 213 computers at […]
Experian, a major credit reference agency has suffered a huge data breach. Around 15 million T-Mobile users (who signed up for T-Mobile’s service last month) suffered as their information was leaked by hackers. T-Mobile used Experian to process its credit applications and perform credit checks on its customers. It is reported that any user who […]
The online hacktivists affiliated to Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam conducted a cyber attack on Vietnamese government websites against online censorship and human rights violations in the country. The hacktivist groups left a deface page along with a message on 8 Vietnamese government websites against the imprisonment of thousands of political prisoners. Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam […]
Zimbabwe government’s websites are apparently in great danger yet again since the infamous hacktivist group is using DDoS this time to get its message through. Zimbabwe Herald is a state-run newspaper but on Friday its name was flashed in the news all over the world since Anonymous attacked it on grounds that it encouraged racism. […]
The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) website was taken down by the cyber-attackers using Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, apparently as an act of revenge for taking the users of Lizard Squad users under custody. After the DDoS attack, the website remained offline for more than three hours. This happened just within a […]
A security breach of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that was previously reported during May in which hackers stole tax information of thousands of taxpayers was actually almost three times bigger than the agency reported in the past. According to the officials at IRS, hackers managed to compromise data of as many as 334,000 taxpayers […]
An unusual admission has been made by a tech firm to its investors — Posing as its employee, a hacker stole $46.7 million from the firm’s accounts online. According to an official statement from famous networking firm Ubiquiti/UBNT, its finance department was attacked by an “outside entity” through sending a message apparently looking like an […]
In 2013, we at HackRead reported how oil and gas sector faces serious physical and online security threats. Now researchers have found out that hackers like to hunt for gas stations offering Internet-linked fuel tanks. With the expansion in modernized gas stations offering Internet-linked fuel tanks, it is also imperative that proper security measures are […]
The online hacktivist Anonymous attacked the Mexican government website against the murder of Rubén Espinosa, a local photojournalist. Anonymous Mexico is all out to direct their cyber-activism towards demanding justice from local and international authorities in the wake of the murder of Rubén Espinosa, Mexican photojournalist. The Hack: Just a few hours before the attack […]
Websites being the target of hackers is not a new phenomenon; we read about it every day. What one will not read about every day is hackers targeting digital screens on bus terminals and certainly not targeting them with the aim of replacing advertising images with pornography. On Friday 7th Aug, an unknown hacker or […]
The United States is now blaming the Russian hackers for hacking computers at the Pentagon. The United States military officials believe Russian hackers are behind the recent security snooping of the Pentagon’s unclassified emailing server that was being used by the Joint Chief personnel. The cyber-attack affected the emailing accounts of about 4,000 military officials, […]
On 29th July 2015, we reported how a group of anti-abortionist hackers hacked into the servers of Planned Parenthood, a pro-abortion organization. Now, the same hackers have conducted a massive DDoS attack on the organization’s website forcing it to go offline. The cyber attack was apparently conducted in the wake of controversial videos revealing that the organization […]