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Two young hackers arrested for launching DDoS attacks on several critical Ukraine sources including the city of Mariupol and several other educational institutions. The DDoS attacks aims in exhausting the resource of a network, application or service that leads an organization to face the various technical impacts. Ukraine police arrested two young hackers 21- and […]
Welcome to the Massive Data breach of 2019, around 773 million datas contains email addresses and passwords were breached and circulated in hacker forums. This data breach seems to be bigger and critical than earlier breaches like “Equifax” and “Marriott International“. Let’s have a look into This Massive Data Breach The data set was first […]
U.S citizen sentenced 10 years in prison for Massive DDOS attacks against 2 hospitals on U.S Boston Children’s Hospital and Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in 2014. Martin Gottesfeld, 32, convicted for launching massive DDoS attacks and the attack was launched more than a week that caused the facility to spend $18,000. He was […]
Real-time location data of more than 11k indian buses exposed online from improperly secured ElasticSearch server, Kibana server, and InfluxDB administrative page. Security researcher Justin Paine discovered the improperly secured servers that exposed significant amount of data from 27 Indian government agencies. The server has no authentication enabled and the information is available for anyone […]
Hackers have become more sophisticated, dangerous and with the built in advanced automated tools they carry out a wide variety of processes to breach data. Here is the lookback of Top 10 Biggest Data Breaches and leaks reported in 2018 which made a huge impact on the organizations. Biggest Data Breaches – 2018 Starwood Hotels […]
BevMo Payment Card Breach impacted more than 14000 customers, attackers injected skimmer scripts into the checkout page of the website. The injected skimmer scripts record keystrokes from customers and transfer the data to the attacker’s server. Attackers stolen data includes customer names, phone numbers, addresses and credit, and debit card numbers along with security codes. […]
A disk wiping Shamoon malware performing destructive attack sample using an image of a burning US Dollar. This malware was uploaded in virus total from France on December 23, 2018, and it signed with a digital certificate from Baidu. Previous Attack destructive malware dubbed Shamoon V3 targeting European oil and gas company in the Middle […]
A new campaign that delivers malicious PDF file that leads to download the file malicious APK file to the user’s device. Quick heal security researchers observed malicious PDF files sent to users as an attachement through phishing emails and attachements are des9igned in the way that tempts the users to open it. The PDF file […]
Security researchers discovered 15 malicious wallpaper apps that running Ad Fraud Scheme from Google play store and current these apps downloaded 222,200 Android users. Cybercriminals frequently using Play store to upload malicious apps that often delivering malware and committing ads frauds. Italy, Taiwan, the United States, Germany and Indonesia with the most infections records by […]
Researchers recently observed that cyber criminals using a weaponized memes in order to communicate with malware for various malicious operations. Memes are nowadays using for fast communication methods to spreading news which is now abused by cyber criminals to reach victims in a very effective way. Attackers using Steganography to embed the malicious payload inside of […]
120 Million Unique CPF of Brazilian citizens exposed online form a misconfigured Apache server. The highly personal information is openly available for everyone. The exposed data contains sensitive information that linked CPF includes banks, loans, repayments, credit and debit history, voting history, full name, emails, residential addresses, phone numbers, date of birth, family contacts, employment, […]
The Cape Cod Community College suffered a massive cyber attack, the attackers steal college banking information and allegedly transfer $807,130 from College. The attack starts with a phishing email. Cyber Criminals currently targeting various colleges and universities around the worlds through social engineering and malware attack on employees and students. The attacks start with the […]
FBI and DHS issued a joint alert on how to handle the SamSam ransomware attacks that targeted multiple industries. The SamSam ransomware is highly active in 2018, it breaks down 67 different types of organization network across the world especially in the U.S. Every time it evolves with improved sophisticated capabilities and carefully selected specific […]
A new ransomware strain spreading as a result of supply chain attack targeting Chinese users starting from December 1 and infected more than 100,000 computers. The ransomware not only encrypting the system files, but it is also capable of stealing login credentials of popular Chinese online services such as Taobao, Baidu Cloud, NetEase 163, Tencent […]
Quora hacked more than 100 million Quora users accounts. Hackers gained unauthorized access to the servers and stolen account information, Public content and actions, and Non-public content and actions. On last Friday Quora discovered that a malicious third party gained unauthorized access to their systems. Quora started an investigation with the help of third-party digital […]
Moscow’s first ever cable car system was forced to shut down within two hours after the launch. Cybercriminals hacked into the cable car system and infected with ransomware. The cyber attack forced all the passengers to leave the cable car and the police reported that the cable car will no longer work. An unknown person […]
Marriott International announced a security breach that affected more than 500 million guests who made a reservation at Starwood Hotels and resorts. Marriott International acquired Starwood Hotels & Resorts in the mid-2016. Mariott identified about the intrusion on September 10, after receiving an alert form their internal security testing tool. They learned an unauthorized access […]
Two Iranian Men charges for Sophisticated SamSam Ransomware deployment on various public sectors, Hospitals, Municipalities that caused $30 million damages and huge amount of sensitive data lose. Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 27 who residing in Iran were involved the deployment of the SamSam ransomware for almost 34-months. SamSam Ransomware is […]
Atrium Health hit with a major data breach which impacted 2.65 million patients, attackers accessed the patient’s personal information. The intrusion occurred between Sept. 22-29. Hackers gained access to the data stored in a third-party system owned by AccuDoc Solutions Inc., which provides billing services to Atrium and other 50 medical centers. The personal information […]
Dell announced a critical data breach incident and the attackers performed unauthorized activities in Dell.com customers sensitive information. Dell is an American multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Data breach may have been exposed the Dell users names, email […]
The Cybersecurity-related profession is a very dynamic, too dynamic in fact that many in the industry are not formally educated to become a future member of the sector. The reality on the ground is there is no specific Bachelor’s degree that is a sure-fire way to create a geek after graduation. A level of geekery […]