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Gaming is an addiction but for cyber criminals, it is a lucrative business. IT security researchers at ESET have discovered a new malware targeting gamers around the world. Dubbed “Joao” by researchers; the malware exists in third party websites offering malicious setups for Aeria games. The malware works in such a way that once executed it can […]
It looks like the racist and neo-nazi website DailyStormer has no place left on the regular Internet. A few days ago the website was banned by GoDaddy and Suspended by Google. Then it turned out that the site has moved to the Russian domain service RU and the Dark Web. Now, it has been reported 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 […]
“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 online hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for carrying out a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the official website of Charlottesville city Virginia. The attack was conducted under the banner of OpDomesticTerrorism; as a result, the website has been forced to go offline. The motive behind this DDoS attack was to protest against the hit and run incident […]
It seems like cyber criminals have taken the challenge to surpass their counterparts and attack with greater intensity than their previous endeavors. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is their favorite weapon while countries like China, UK, Italy, Hong Kong, US, South Korea and Russia are their favored targets. The latest DDoS attack that was launched […]
A couple of days ago it was reported that the 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, co-owner of one of Internet’s largest digital currency exchange BTC-e was arrested in Greece on suspicion of using his platform for a large scale money laundering campaign and aiding cyber criminals in receiving money from victims of ransomware attacks. Now, the US […]
There is some excellent news for researchers and white hat hackers out there. On Thursday the popular anonymity network Tor project launched its public bug bounty program. This program will help researchers earn thousands of dollars since up to $4000 are being offered for finding out vulnerabilities. The program has been launched on the HackerOne […]
An 18-year-old teenager named Jack Chappell was charged by the West Midlands for selling malware to attackers over the web which could potentially send Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks to systems of large corporations. The malware The malware that Chappell sold was originally meant to carry DDoS attacks on PCs of some of the largest corporations in the UK, including T-Mobile, EE, Vodafone, […]
Armada Collective, a group of online attackers, is demanding a ransom payment of $315,000 from South Korean banks – In the case of refusal, the group has threatened the banks with a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The threats came days after South Korean web hosting company NAYANA paid over $1 million […]
Authorities have conducted a large-scale operation against cyber criminals in several European countries. As a result, 6 people have been arrested while 36 have been questioned after Europol, Germany’s Kriminalinspektion Mayen, the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce (J-CAT) and Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) raided 20 houses in Cyprus, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United Kingdom between 5th […]
The US government issued a warning about a rare piracy operation going on in North Korea last eight years. He presented the joint FBI report and the Homeland Security Department details on the US “DeltaCharlie”, a malicious program used by the Hidden Cobra group of piracy to infect hundreds of thousands of computers across the […]
Trend Micro has revealed that a number of malware families are targeting vulnerable IP cameras as hackers build more sophisticated viruses to fight against the increasing security measures with which manufacturers are responding. The four malware families As you may remember, it was recently reported that a malware named Persirai had been attacking numerous IP […]
The Doha, Qatar-based Al Jazeera news channel has said that its digital media network and the official website are under a series of cyber attacks. In a post on its website, the news channel revealed that its cyber infrastructure is “undergoing systematic and continual hacking attempts.” “These attempts are gaining intensity and taking various forms. […]
After the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the favorite target of cyber criminals is cryptocurrency exchanges. In the latest, the popular Bitcoin and Litecoin exchange platform BTC-E.com suffered a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks disrupting its service and forcing the platform to go offline. The attacks started on 5th June when a Tweet came […]
As a small business owner, you’re bound to take great pride in what you do and use every opportunity you can to spread the word about your company. However, when it comes to internet security – 9 out of 10 entrepreneurs and startup founders will claim that their website is safe because it doesn’t contain […]
About two weeks ago the critical cyber infrastructure at the hospitals in the United Kingdom came under WannaCry ransomware attack creating havoc all over the country. Now, according to reports, British Airways is suffering a service outage resulting in canceling all flights. In an official statement from the Airways, it has been stated that the […]
The IT security community is quite active in exposing cyber criminals developing malware to conduct malicious activities. The malware like Mirai and Bashlike aka LizKebab are already busy infecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and conducting DDoS attacks worldwide. Now, security firm Trend Micro discovered that an IoT malware, called Persirai is infecting […]
A Botnet called “Bondnet” compromised more than 15,000 machine including Thousands of Windows servers and control all its Activities Remotely and recent Discover stats that “Bondnet” Suspect for mine different cryptocurrencies. Bondnet Botnet performance seems highly sophisticated and everyday more than 2000 Compromised Machines which equals to 12,000 cores reports to Bondnet Command & Control Server […]
If you are wondering what’s going on with the popular messenger app WhatsApp then you are not alone because its service is down in many countries. Although it is unclear what’s going on and why the service is down there’s a massive number of users complaining on Twitter. WhatsApp users in Spain, Canada, Netherlands, Brazil, […]
Symantec, an IT security and software company, has released the latest volume of Internet security threat report and some of the facts written in the report are astonishing. The report states that the U.S was the most targeted country for ransomware and the number of people willing to pay the ransomware was also the highest […]