All posts tagged "Cyber Crime"

Stolen Credit Card Data Trading Marketplace HACKED

You may call it karma or label it as what goes around comes around; it is reported that the website that thrives...

A pervert Yahoo employee hacked 6,000 accounts using internal system

Once hacking Yahoo Mail accounts, the employee also compromised accounts to access his victims’ Dropbox, Facebook, Gmail, and iCloud accounts. Yahoo Mail...

Dark web data center in former NATO bunker seized for hosting child porn

Bulletproof hoster not so Bulletproof after all. Authorities in Germany have raided, busted and seized a massive data bunker called “Cyberbunker 2.0”...

An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline

On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be...

Cybercrimes sextortion & Revengeporn, What to do if it happens to you?

New Amazon phishing scam stealing credit card data

A new Amazon phishing scam email is circulating, that tricks users into handing over their personal as well as financial information including...

Wikipedia suffers DDoS attack causing worldwide service disruption

The DDoS attack on Wikipedia is first of its kind. The popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia has suffered a DDoS attack over the...

Ways to Help Keep Your Business Systems Secure

Keeping data and information secure is one of the biggest problems businesses face. Cybercrime is a big issue for many because of...

NASA astronaut accused of accessing ex-wife’s bank account from space

Outer space’s first-ever cyber crime? It seems so. The US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has confirmed that it...

New malware records screen activity as victim watches porn

The IT security researchers at ESET have discovered a nasty new malware that not only steals users’ private and financial data but...

Bluetana app detects gas pumps card skimmers in 3 seconds

Bluetana takes 3 seconds to detect illegal card skimmers, unlike law enforcement agencies who can take up to 30 minutes for inspection....

8chan down after Cloudflare & hosting firms boots it off

The infamous messageboard 8chan responsible for spreading hateful content against minorities and people of color has been forced to go offline after...

Capital One data breach: 106m customers affected; suspected hacker arrested

The hacker behind the breach has been arrested after they bragged about hacking Capital One. Capital One Financial Corporation, a United States-based...

Chinese Hackers Launching Zegost Malware to Attack Government Networks Via Weaponized MS Powerpoint

Researchers discovered a new campaign with Zegost info stealer malware that believed to be originated from Chinese based threat actors who is...

WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchin aka MalwareTech won’t serve prison time

The British cyber security researcher and WannaCry ransomware hero Marcus Hutchin was initially facing up to 10 years in a US prison....

Cloud hosting provider iNSYNQ hit by MegaCortex ransomware (Updated)

MegaCortex ransomware was discovered in May this year. iNSYNQ, a United States-based Cloud hosting provider has been hit by a massive ransomware...

Hackers steal 7.5TB of data from Russian Intel Agency FSB’s contractor

The hackers stole the data and shared it with another hacking group who was involved in the hacking of another FSB contractor....

Man who carried out DDoS attacks against PSN & Xbox jailed

The cybercriminal was also involved in several other cybercrimes including swatting and deleting databases of targeted websites. Austin Thompson, a DDoS attacker...

DDoS Attacker Who Ruined Gamers’ Christmas Gets 27 Months in Prison

A 23-year-old hacker from Utah who launched a series of DDoS attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between...

Hacker deletes entire student newspaper website of University of Ottawa

A hacker or simply call them a cyber criminal hacked into the independent student newspaper of the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) “The...

Crooks steal $28M in crypto using Google Adwords & spoofed domains

Authorities arrested six suspects including five males and one female in simultaneous raids carried out in a joint operation. The raids and...