i-Dressup operators fail to fix bug that exposes up to 5.5 million credentials. A social hangout website for teenage girls has sprung a leak that’s exposing plaintext passwords protecting as manyRead More →
Ransomware in its various forms continues to make headlines as much for high-profile network disruptions as for the ubiquity of attacks among consumers. We recently noted the non-linear growth ofRead More →
Internet relay chat (IRC) is a fundamentally primitive technology, a precursor to social networks, and, especially, chat services like Slack and Hipchat. Slack, in particular, has been quietly decimating IRCRead More →
ARMENIAN HACKERS LEAKED PERSONAL DETAILS OF GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND ALSO DEFACED EMBASSY SITES TO CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF ARMENIAN INDEPENDENCE. Armenian hackers from Monte Melkonian Cyber Army (MMCA) have leaked a trove ofRead More →
According to the popular cyber security experts an unknown nation state actor may be running tests for taking down the entire internet infrastructure. What happens if someone shuts down the Internet?Read More →
Kaspersky Lab presented an investigation on the future of ATM Biometric Skimmers and how cybercriminals could exploit them. A recent investigation by Kaspersky Labs reports that a number of undergroundRead More →
Ian Mellul used Gmail (exposed in Adobe breach) to plan travel for First Lady, Biden.On September 21, a dump of an e-mail account belonging to a White House contractor wasRead More →
A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available onRead More →
Supposedly hacked data surfaced on underground website for sale in August. In August, a dealer in stolen data who goes by the online moniker “Peace”—the person or persons who previously soldRead More →
Malware is infesting a growing number of IoT devices, but their owners may be completely unaware of it. Malware targeting the Internet of Things (IoT) has come of age andRead More →
Last week, KrebsOnSecurity detailed how BackConnect Inc. — a company that defends victims against large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks — admitted to hijacking hundreds of Internet addresses from a EuropeanRead More →
Terbium Labs’ software can now be used to detect when data belonging to companies is being flogged in the underground. Terbium Labs has announced the release of Dark Web dataRead More →
In the past, we’ve seen superuser rights exploit advertising applications such as Leech, Guerrilla, Ztorg. This use of root privileges is not typical, however, for banking malware attacks, because moneyRead More →
FBI says it’s impossible but Cambridge computer security expert proves them wrong. Passcodes on iPhones can be hacked using store-bought electronic components worth less than $100 (£77), according to oneRead More →
A start-up alerts organizations when their sensitive information pops up for sale online. When police officers respond to a theft or a mugging, they’ll usually ask for the serial numbersRead More →
With several months of in-depth research on Tesla Cars, we have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities and successfully implemented remote, aka none physical contact, control on Tesla Model S in bothRead More →
Keyloggers have always been present in attackers’ toolkits. They give attackers the power to record every keystroke from a victim’s machine and steal sensitive information. Zscaler ThreatLabZ recently came acrossRead More →
Facebook quickly resolved a vulnerability in its Business Manager tool late last month that could have let an attacker take over any Facebook page. Arun Sureshkumar, a security researcher in India, disclosed theRead More →
Two researchers have analyzed images Exif metadata included in the photos used by crooks to advertise their products on black marketplaces in the dark web. Darknets are a privileged environmentRead More →
Cisco revealed the existence of another zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6415, in the Equation Group archive leaked by the Shadow Broker hackers. This summer a group of hackers known as ShadowRead More →
