Shadow Brokers identifies hundreds of organizations it claims were hacked by NSA. Shadow Brokers—the name used by a person or group that created seismic waves in August when it publishedRead More →
AT&T has been data-mining and willingly sharing user phone data, through its “Hemisphere” Project, which is essentially a mass surveillance program. The NSA may be the well-known governmental entity notoriousRead More →
Short Bytes: Hacktivist group Anonymous has shared a new video and highlighted the strong possibility of World War 3. The collective says that the WWIII is coming soon, citing differentRead More →
HackForums.net has shut down its “Server Stress Testing” section. An online hackers’ forum has deleted a section that allegedly offered paid distributed denial-of-service attacks, following last Friday’s massive internet disruption.Read More →
Security researchers have discovered flaws in the Mirai botnet that might be used to mitigate against future attacks from the zombie network. Scott Tenaglia, a researcher at endpoint security firmRead More →
The young hacker Mys7erioN announced to have hacked into the database of a US organization, the Michigan State University. Data leaked online. Today I was contacted via Twitter by Mys7erioN who revealedRead More →
The malware world continues to develop rapidly and dynamically. On a daily basis new malware appears, accelerating the cat-and-mouse game between attackers and defenders. As a result, it’s more importantRead More →
Ryan Collins sent fake e-mails that appeared to be from Apple and Google. A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty toRead More →
BLACKGEAR is an espionage campaign which has targeted users in Taiwan for many years. Multiple papers and talks have been released covering this campaign, which used the ELIRKS backdoor when itRead More →
Ukrainian hacking group’s haul shows Russian plans to destabilize Kiev…maybe. MRecently a cache of 2,337 e-mails from the office of a high-ranking advisor to Russian president Vladimir Putin was dumped onRead More →
