Yesterday, a new ransomware called TrueCrypter was discovered by AVG malware analyst Jakub Kroustek. This ransomware encrypts your data using AES-256 encryption and then demands either .2 bitcoins or $115 USD inRead More →
Recently we observed an Android malware family being used to attack users in Russia. The malware samples were mainly distributed through a series of malicious subdomains registered under a legitimateRead More →
Unknown group attacked South East Asian targets, sometimes for years at a time. Microsoft’s Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. TheRead More →
Last week Kafeine posted an analysis of a new ransomware called CryptXXX on the Proofpoint blog. Based on their analysis they determined that CryptXXX is affiliated with the developers of theRead More →
A list containing hundreds of Spotify account credentials – including emails, usernames, passwords, account type and other details – has popped up on the website Pastebin, in what appears to beRead More →
Facebook vulnerability breaks down the convenience of social login authentication. Insufficient security validation allows attackers to impersonate Internet users and gain password-less access to any of their online accounts. SocialRead More →
BeautifulPeople.comLeaks Very Private Data of 1.1 Million ‘Elite’ Daters. This is a shame hack, a website called site BeautifulPeople.com which only accepts those people who are fair and beautiful was hacked by unknownRead More →
This is a hardware True Random Number Generator that attaches via USB. Version 0.3 This one uses the better noise source coupled with an op amp that provides 2MHz ofRead More →
Hostile JavaScript delivered through ads installs ransomware on older Android phones. An ongoing drive-by attack is forcing ransomware onto Android smartphones by exploiting critical vulnerabilities in older versions of Google’s mobileRead More →
Windows comes with a tool called the Windows Management Instrumentation, or WMI, that can be used by system administrators to receive information and notifications from Windows. Using WMI, an administratorRead More →
“This is not a joke,” e-mail threatening massive DDoS says. Except it is. In less than two months, online businesses have paid more than $100,000 to scammers who set up aRead More →
The hackers behind a large-scale Bangladesh bank hack went further than simply stealing money. Now it turns out that they created malware that could compromise the internationally used SWIFT paymentRead More →
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is calling for the development of a hacker-proof encryption App for the U.S. military. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is calling securityRead More →
This guide is written for anyone wo is practicing hiw penetration skills using the Metasploitable 2. The problem that we are facing here is that we have to penetrate toRead More →
Hacktivists spring into action following another mysterious police shooting that ends with someone’s death. Friday afternoon, members of the New World Hackers (NWH), one of Anonymous’ divisions, launched DDoS attacks againstRead More →
A security researcher named Mosh has discovered a new variant of the 7ev3n Ransomware, which has rebranded itself as 7ev3n-HONE$T. This ransomware will encrypt your data and then ransom your files for approximatelyRead More →
Attackers have been successfully deploying RATs for years to remotely control users systems – giving them full access to the victim’s files or resources such as cameras, recording key strokes,Read More →
Can you believe it! A mere $10 second hand router was responsible for the massive $80 million Bangladesh Bank hack. Back in February, hackers had managed to hack into one ofRead More →
The security expert Chris Vickery discovered a 132 GB MongoDB database open online and containing 93.4 million Mexican voter records. Once again a MongoDB poorly configurated exposed million records, once again dataRead More →
The number of people accessing Facebook via the “dark web” now stands at 1 million per month, the tech giant announced today (April 22). Facebook has maintained an “Onion” siteRead More →
