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WannaCry, a malicious computer virus that encrypts data and demands ransom, hit thousands of computers across the world, causing several organization to close down. Not a day goes by without a large company admits that its data has been breached. Cyber attacks are more known to be a thing of modern life, but their story […]
Apple is reportedly planning to launch its News subscription service at an event on March 25, according to a report from BuzzFeed. The launch event will be held at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park campus. Since the event is most likely to focus on Apple’s service business, so we won’t be seeing any new hardware like the rumored iPad mini, AirPods, or […]
Hackers abuses cloud hosting services to distribute Stealer Malware by mixing it up with good ones to prevent the malware from getting blacklisted. Researchers from Zscaler ThreatLabZ observed a popular hosting provider serving the domain used in phishing and malware attacks in wild. Crypto-wallet Stealer Malware Researchers found the domain http[:]//flexsell[.]ca which is hosted on […]
Hacker attack Arran Brewery using ransomware and lock down their computer system and demand ransom in bitcoin to unlock their system. It was one of the targeted attacks against Arran Brewery via email that contains attached ransom payload in order to demand the ransom. Arran Brewery, based on the Isle of Arran – a Scottish […]
A Romanian Woman Eveline Cismaru. 28, pled guilty to federal charges for illegally gaining access to more than 126 computers that connected to Surveillance cameras installed and used by Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and infected them with ransomware. She pled guilty before the Honorable Dabney L. Friedrich to one count of conspiracy to commit wire […]
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Culture and Information has issued tough warnings to media organizations that relish spreading rumors to get heavy traffic on their websites that follows suite. In fact, the ministry has warned the organizations of tough legal action against those that spread fake news. Also Read: 7 Online Activities That Can Get You Arrested […]
On Friday morning BBC started sending news alerts in the Bengali language and those receiving notifications from BBC had no idea what was going on so they thought BBC had been hacked. The BBC English service published an article on its site in the Bengali language leaving readers in doubt if the service had been hacked. […]
Someone used 4chan to post about Oregon college shooting in the US before it actually took place. The sudden increase of Internet users has connected humanity worldwide. Some use it for good, others use it as a tool to spread fear and propaganda. This is exemplified by what happened on Thursday when a gunman in Oregon, California […]
In March, Motherboard reported Uber accounts had been stolen by hackers who were selling them on public forums for as low as $1. Now another report by the board claims that Uber has been hacked again, but this time the affected users are American citizens. Some of the Uber customers are complaining on Twitter that someone […]
Take a quick look at Top Fossbytes of Week – Top Tech News Next-Gen Superfast WiFi Technology from Samsung Samsung Electronics has announced that it is developing its 60GHz WiFi technology which will speed up the current data transfer speed up to 5 times. This technology will provide you the data transfer speed up to […]
While surfing Facebook, you must have seen a blue badge indicating verified pages and profiles of famous people such as celebrities, journalists and politicians etc, but looking at verified pages of Anonymous hacktivists was something totally unexpected. Yes! there are two pages on Facebook belonging to the Anonymous hacktivists with verified page status and millions of likes. We saw […]
The telecommunication system of Ukraine has got hit by cyber-attacks through the equipment which have been installed in the Russian-influenced Crimea. These equipment have interfered with the phones lines of the parliament members causing to block them. Some of the telecommunication systems and the telephone services of Ukraine have been severed after the Russian forces […]
The online hacktivist group Anonymous has released a video, according to which the group has declared global cyber war on the government of United States against injustice, NSA‘s spying and 10 year sentence of a cyber activist Jeremy Hammond. The video message is available below: In the message, Anonymous has requested that: ‘People who follow Anonymous, do not […]
The newly formed Intellectual Property Crime Unit of the City of London Police (IPCU) is in action. In its first operation the unit has suspended domain names of several famous torrent sites. The registrars were ordered to suspend domain names of many torrent service sites including MisterTorrent, ExtraTorrent and SumoTorrent, where MisterTorrent had its .com domain suspended while MisterTorrent and SumoTorrent […]
Anonymous Hackers claim to hack CBS Broadcasting television network website and to have deleted the whole sever, deliberately leaving it with only one file “foundry.html”. According to Anonymous this hack is a part of their #OpMegaUpload. However, the website is back on but this is the biggest hack attack on any media platform after the last week […]