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A US district court sentenced Muhammad Fahd, a citizen of Pakistan and Grenada, for 12 years for leading a 7-year-long scheme to defraud AT&T. According to the US Department of Justice, Fahd unlocked 1.9 million AT&T phones despite knowing that an investigation was launched against him. Judge Robert S. Lasnik stated while sentencing the accused […]
A threat actor with suspected ties to Pakistan has been striking government and energy organizations in the South and Central Asia regions to deploy a remote access trojan on compromised Windows systems, according to new research. “Most of the organizations that exhibited signs of compromise were in India, and a small number were in Afghanistan,” […]
Turkish hackers left a message protesting against Iceland on a Twitter account owned by India actor. The official Twitter account of Bollywood’s legend Amitabh Bachchan has apparently been hacked by Turkish hacking group calling itself “Ayyildiz Tim.” The verified Twitter account with over 37.4 million followers has also been defaced with a photo of famous […]
Hackers are after anyone seeking Pakistani passport while there is no response from the website’s administrator. Researchers at information security firm Trustwave have made a startling new discovery about the data breach on a Pakistani government website involving the Scanbox Framework. It is worth noting that the Scanbox is a dangerous payload and this is […]
In the aftermath of the dastardly Pulwama terror attack that shook the nation to the core, a group of Indian Hacktivists going by the name Team I Crew has taken down multiple Pakistan Government websites, in one of the biggest cyber attacks on the neighbor. First reported by Times Now, well over 200 websites were […]
Pakistani banks have debuted on the Dark Web with almost all of the country’s banks becoming victims of a devastating data hack. It is undoubtedly the biggest ever hacking campaign launched against banks in Pakistan. It is estimated that hackers have stolen financial data of more than 8,000 account holders from at least 10 different […]
Pakistani Hacker Posted Authentic Snapchat Source Code on GitHub – Snapchat’s source code is stolen…can there be a piece of bigger news than that? Perhaps there is! Not only that the source code has been stolen but also posted on Microsoft-owned GitHub of all the platforms. Reportedly, the hacker hails from a small village in Pakistan and […]
It is probably the first time that the news regarding a corruption case surrounding Pakistani government involves a Microsoft font and the world-renowned encyclopedia website Wikipedia as the corruption scandal escalates to new heights threatening the country’s government. The Panama leaks As many of you may know, earlier in 2016, a hoard of documents dubbed […]
Hackers have started a new campaign in which they have chosen WhatsApp as the primary malware-distributing platform. In this campaign, hackers are distributing the malware through 2 files namely “NDA-ranked-8th-toughest-College-in-the-world-to-get-into.xls” and “NIA-selection-order-.xls” respectively. These files are being circulated via WhatsApp in the form of authentic word files obtaining sensitive information from users which include online […]
The Federal Investigation Agency in Pakistan is investigating a Chinese organization that is specialized in attacking ATM machines by using skimmer devices. A few days ago I reported the story of the security expert Benjamin Tedesco that has spotted an ATM skimmer during his vacation in Vienna. The ATM skimmer was quite impossible to detect to common people and […]
A trove of leaked documents obtained by an international team of journalists (“biggest leak in history”: A 2.6-terabyte stash of data) show our so called leaders have been stealing more money than one can imagine A huge leak of confidential tax haven documents has been leaked. The leak dubbed the Panama Papers implicates the rich […]
Pakistan-Linked Hackers Successfully Conduct Third Cyber-Espionage Campaign Against Indian Military within a Month Operation C-Major is the name of the latest cyber-espionage campaign implemented by Pakistan-linked hackers. Trend Micro reports that the campaign targeted Indian military employees via a spear-phishing mechanism with which spyware was distributed to the victims. As per the security firm’s analysis, […]
Google has removed SmeshApp from PlayStore on the allegations that the app is a tool used by Pakistan’s ISI to spy on Indian military personnel The rivalry between India and Pakistan is known to the whole world with militaries of both countries at war for several times after getting independence from the Brits — Now the tools […]
The official Twitter account of renowned Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir has been hacked by an unknown hacker who is now leaking screenshots of his personal emails. Hamid Mir, known for his journalist work and controversies has his Twitter account hacked and whoever is behind the hack is now leaking screenshots of Mir’s personal email and […]
Blackberry is all set to shut down its operations in Pakistan. The statement came from the company after continuing request from the government to install a backdoor in the enterprise devices. Blackberry earlier this year received a ban from PTA (Pakistani Telecommunications Authority) when the company refused to install backdoors in their devices. The ban […]
If you want to silence someone’s voice; welcome to Pakistan where the government puts a ban on platforms like YouTube, Pastebin or even WordPress all in the name of countering cyber terrorism. The latest to get their voice slain is an online public forum to discuss Pakistani politics famously known as Siasat.pk (Siasat means Politics in Urdu) started […]
Short Bytes: The government of India has warned its six ministries regarding a probable Pakistani hacking attack to retrieve sensitive information from the computers in various organizations. On Friday, the Indian home ministry issued an advisory to six ministries regarding a possible hacking attack from Pakistani intelligence agencies. This hacking attack may target the communication networks of […]
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has ordered the local cellular operators to completely shut down Canadian smartphone maker’s BlackBerry Enterprise Services (BES) by the end of November due to security concerns by the security agency. Earlier we reported that Pakistan’s security agency i.e. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has been planning to improve their surveillance and eavesdropping capabilities which […]
The most powerful intelligence and spy agency of Pakistan, specifically Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), has now planned to tap all the Internet traffic that is entering or travelling through the international undersea cables passing through the country’s southern port city of Karachi. For those of you who don’t know, every government seems to be interested in […]
Remember Android logo peeing on Apple logo found on Google Maps in Rawalpindi, Pakistan? Well, Google didn’t like it and for now it has suspended the map editor feature. Mere apologizing wasn’t enough for Google as all hell broke loose when an image of the android mascot peeing on the Apple logo leaked and brought public […]
There’s always something funny or weird going on with Google Maps. A week ago, it was Edward Snowden’s den that appeared on the top of White House and now Hacker News user spotted an Android logo peeing on Apple in Google Maps satellite view. Click on ➸ these co-ordinates to see a funny or rather an odd image from Rawalpindi city of Pakistan showing […]