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Hackers come in many forms with sophisticated Hacking Techniques, While there has been a lot of discussion about online security in recent years, many people are still unfamiliar with the types of attacks they are most likely to be targeted by. Knowing what’s out there is clearly important when it comes to keeping yourself safe […]
Hackers are actively exploiting recent patched remote code execution vulnerabilities in the Microsoft SharePoint Servers version to inject the China Chopper web shell, which allows hackers to inject various commands. Canadian and Saudi Arabian cybersecurity raised awareness about the ongoing attack targeting the outdated systems. The vulnerability affects all versions of SharePoint Server 2010 to […]
Justice, Israel style, the final judgment of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) against cyber attackers was decisive and literally with the “bang”. The highly contested Gaza strip between Israel and Palestinian Hamas has been going on for many decades, but according to the Israeli military intelligence, the later also house an elite hacker unit along with […]
Tax Accounting Firm Wolters Kluwer, valued at $4.8 billion is currently suffering a severe malware attack that forced the company to take down their tax returns database since May 6, 2019. A huge portion of the company’s clients are Fortune 500 companies (93%), U.S. banks (90%) and accounting firms (number undisclosed). As a host of […]
The development methodology of malware has changed drastically, something that cannot be ignored. A few years ago, the primary objective of the hackers was to rake profit and avoid detection. However, these criminals have realized that the longer they have an infected endpoint, the more money they make. Then came fileless Malware, a kind of […]
Three high-severity PrinterLogic flaws that have recently been detected could help hackers launch remote code execution attacks on printers. Threatpost editor Lindsey O’Donnell reports, “A slew of high-severity flaws have been disclosed in the PrinterLogic printer management service, which could enable a remote attacker to execute code on workstations running the PrinterLogic agent.” The PrinterLogic […]
A report by ZDNet has revealed that a mysterious hacker is selling Windows zero-day exploits to the world’s most notorious cybercrime groups for the past three years. At least three cyber-espionage groups also known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are regular customers of this hacker. According to experts from Kaspersky Lab, the hacker going by […]
ATO (Account Takeover) attacks have reportedly impacted roughly 4,000 Office 365 accounts, which were later used to carry out malicious activities. Details about the attacks, which spanned one whole month, have been given out by researchers at Barracuda Networks in a report dated May 2, 2019. The report says, “Barracuda researchers have revealed a startling […]
Financial Crimes to Reach an Unprecedented High by 2023 if Dark Web marketplaces like Genesis are allowed to Operate- Researchers Claim. According to the latest research from Juniper Research, cybercriminals have developed a wide range of advanced tools to help users evade machine learning-based anti-fraud systems. On the other hand, Kaspersky Lab researchers have identified […]
According to the authors of the book Learn ethical hacking, the National Directorate of Informatics and the Israeli Population Authority are investigating an alleged hacker who, through his Twitter account, claims to have hacked the Israeli voting system to steal data of about 6 million voters three days before the legislative elections in Israel. According […]
Relentless espionage Group also called as aka APT33 (Elfin) targeting various organization in Saudi Arabia and United States by deploying a variety of malware in their network. Aka APT33 group specifically targeting corporate networks and it compromised around 50 organizations in different countries since 2015. Cybercriminals scanning the vulnerable websites of a specific target, later […]
Cyber Criminals abused the worlds largest computer maker ASUS computers software update tool by hijacking the company server and install the malware. ASUS live update tool contacts the ASUS update server periodically to see if any firmware or other software updates are available and the tool installed on laptops and other devices. Attackers performed a […]
The authors of the book ‘Learn ethical hacking‘ narrate an unlikely story. A company fired one of its IT employees after only one month of hiring him and, in retaliation, the employee stole the login details of one of his former co-workers, entered one of the company’s Amazon Web Services accounts and disabled 23 servers. […]
Notoriety is what hackers thrive on, no matter if it fetches them money or their dirty deeds flash on the news headlines. Network hacks are on the rise and increasing in severity and frequently each year. In 2017 a joint study from Accenture and Ponemon Institute concluded that an average company experiences 130 security breaches, […]
The incident took place on Saturday, March 2, when hackers tried to plant ransomware on over one million Israeli web pages, in a bid to lock the users out until they paid a ransom. Unfortunately, the plan did not go as well as expected, and it was thwarted. Nevertheless, they manage to deface many web […]
Researchers discovered a new malicious PDF sample that has an ability to exploit the Google Chrome zero-day flaw when victims using Chrome as local PDF viewer. Attackers spreading this weaponized PDF intended to exploit the Chrome zero-day vulnerability to track the users and collect some user’s information when they open this malicious PDF in chrome […]
Threat actors compromised the Bangladesh embassy in Cairo website and taking control to drops the weaponized word documents that contains privilege escalation flaw exploit (CVE-2017-7255). Attackers are usually distributing various malware via malspam and phishing emails which includes some of the convince action take place in order to infect the victims. But this is totally […]
Researchers discovered a new malware that rapidly changing its sophisticated behavior in order to escape from the email security protection and infection the victims. It’s very common that threat actors spreading countless malware via email campaigns, at the same time email security providers are keep fighting with them to block and terminate it. But attackers […]
Cybercriminals now leveraging new hacking tools and remote access software to drop cryptocurrency malware by exploiting a Windows SMB Server Vulnerability . There are 2 main hacking tools that are used by attackers to drop random file info to the targeted systems windows registry. First one is MIMIKATZ , a powerful post-exploitation hacking tool which is used with […]
Cyber Criminals now distributing new dubbed Muncy malware as a EXE file format via DHL phishing campaigns to target the users around the world. DHL phishing is one of the widely distributing campaigns that delivers that various sophisticated malware in recent past via malspam emails. Threat actors are leveraging the poorly configured SMTP servers and […]
The Dark Web is once again is hosting a ‘clearance sale’ of at least 617 million user credentials, collectively coming from recently hacked services including ShareThis, Whitepages, 500px, Dubsmash, and Armor Games and more. The aggregate value of the for-sale accounts is estimated to reach at least $20,000 in BTC. The user information available for […]