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China is often held responsible for conducting surveillance campaigns and espionage activities discreetly not only on its citizens but governments across continents. Now, a misconfigured facial recognition database has emerged that confirms the allegations put forth against China. Reportedly, a Dutch security researcher has exposed database that contains exclusive details about the deep-rooted surveillance tactics […]
Correction 6:33 AM ET: This article previously stated that hackers leaked a list of 20,000 subscribers. That was incorrect, the list contained nearly 2,000 (1,784) emails. We apologize and regret the error. A group of Muslim hacktivists from Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah, the Sunni sect of Islam and going by the online handle of Di5s3nSi0N hacked […]
The Internet and primarily Social Media has catapulted Ahmed Mohammed into an overnight celebrity. Ahmed, a 14-year-old Muslim schoolboy from Texas was suspended from his school after being arrested for making a homemade clock which he brought into the school. Ahmed, a member of the school’s Robotics club, dabbled in electronics as a hobby and […]
The extremist militant organization the so-called Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) often uses the recruitment tactic of catfishing, which means hiring Western females specifically those who feel isolated or are exploitable via promises of marriage/romance with a jihadi. Catfish is basically an online swindler who is fully trained in setting up fake social media IDs and fleecing […]
Arab hackers are using pictures of IDF’s women division to hack Israeli military servers — And it’s a success. Several computer networks belonging to the Israeli military have reportedly been penetrated by Arabic-speaking hackers under a four-month spying campaign. The modus operandi of these hackers involves using a careful combination of spyware along with deceiving emails attached with […]
The pro-Bashar Al Assad hacking group Syrian Electronic Army has hacked into the domain registry of world renowned online shopping and money transaction platforms Ebay and MarkMonitor which manages security for Paypal. The hack was announced by SEA on their official Twitter account which shows that official websites of UK’s Ebay (ebay.co.uk) and Paypal (paypal.co.uk) were hacked […]
A group of Turkish hackers going with the handle of @Turkguvenligi on Twitter has hacked and defaced the official website (http://leaks.sea.sy/) of high pro-Bashar Ul Assad Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers left a deface page along with a message on hacked website, bashing SEA for targeting Turkish cyber space. The deface message was expressed in following words: […]
Pro Bashar Ul Assad hackers from Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) had hacked the official blog, Facebook and Twitter account of instant messaging client Skype yesterday. After hacking the Twitter account, SEA started tweeting against Micosoft’s Skype, asking them to stop spying on people. One of the tweet from hacked Twitter of skype said that: While on the […]
The pro-Syrian President hackers from Syrian Electronic Army has hacked the official website of Vice Magazine (vice.com) for publishing article, revealing the identities of alleged members of the Syrian Electronic Army. SEA hacked the site few hours ago, redirected it to their own site (sea.sy) and deleted the article titled “Is This the Leader of the Syrian […]