Attacks… Using Appcache and ServiceWorker for Evil 7 Jun 20177 Jun 2017 You’re a bad guy and you just hacked a website. Normally you leak the database and leave. The owner fixes everything next day and removes your backdoor. With Middlekit techniques…
Attacks… Fake Google Docs phishing deluge hits Gmail 4 May 20174 May 2017 A new phishing attack has appeared in inboxes around the world that masquerades as an email contact sharing a Google Doc. The emails appear to originate from a legitimate account,…
Attacks… DDoS Attacks Surge, Organizations Struggle to Respond 3 May 20173 May 2017 Organizations often discover a DDoS attack only after being alerted to the fact by a third-party or customer, Neustar survey shows. Despite heightened awareness of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, organizations…
Attacks… Thousands of computers now compromised with leaked NSA tools 27 Apr 201727 Apr 2017 Thousands of Microsoft Windows machines worldwide are infected with an NSA-developed backdoor that hackers installed by reusing leaked executable code from an outdated hacking toolkit belonging to the spy agency, multiple…
Attacks Lizard Squad Taking Over CCTV Devices to Conduct DDoS Attacks 5 Jul 20165 Jul 2016 Lizard Squad hackers have been conducting Distributed Denial of Service (#DDoS) Attacks on banking and government institutions after compromising CCTV devices worldwide! Earlier in two previous incidents, researchers discovered hackers taking…
Attacks Biggest cybersecurity threats in 2016 16 Jun 201616 Jun 2016 Headless worms, machine-to-machine attacks, jailbreaking, ghostware and two-faced malware: The language of cybersecurity incites a level of fear that seems appropriate, given all that's at stake. In the coming year,…
Attacks The buffer overflow 20 Apr 201620 Apr 2016 At its core, the buffer overflow is an astonishingly simple bug that results from a common practice. Computer programs frequently operate on chunks of data that are read from a…
Attacks Angler Malvertising Campaign Hits Top Publishers 30 Mar 201630 Mar 2016 During the past few weeks, malvertising activity was a little bit on the decline, at least within our own telemetry. We were mainly seeing the usual suspects pushing a lot…
Attacks More than 11 Million OpenSSL HTTPS Websites at Risk 1 Mar 20161 Mar 2016 A new deadly security vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL that affects more than 11 Million modern websites and e-mail services protected by an ancient, long deprecated transport layer security…
Attacks… Cross Site Scripting Cheat Sheet 23 Feb 201629 Feb 2016 This cheat sheet is for people who already understand the basics of Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks but want a deep understanding of the nuances regarding filter evasion. XSS Locator…
Attacks As promised, hacker leaks contact info of FBI employees 13 Feb 201613 Feb 2016 Hacker makes good his promise and leaks contact information of 20000 FBI employees. After releasing stolen records of 9000 employee from Department of Homeland Security, the hacker who goes by…
Attacks… Defending against CSRF Attacks 11 Feb 201611 Feb 2016 Cross-Site Request Forgery, or CSRF for short is a common and regular online attack. CSRF also goes by the acronym XSRF and the phrase “Sea-Surf”. CSRF attacks include a malicious…
Attacks Giant DDoS attacks are now hitting 500Gbps 31 Jan 20161 Feb 2016 Criminals flexing their technical muscles was the biggest motivation last year behind distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), which involve flooding a target's web servers with junk traffic, according to an analysis…
Attacks This May Have Been the Largest DDoS Attack in History 12 Jan 201612 Jan 2016 Cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day, and the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one of the favorite weapon for hackers to temporarily suspend…
Attacks 000webhost hacked, 13 million customers exposed 29 Oct 201529 Oct 2015 Free website hosting service 000webhost has suffered a data breach which has placed the service's security practices under scrutiny. 000webhost is a free web hosting service which supports both PHP…
Attacks… Critical Netgear Router Exploit allows anyone to Hack You Remotely 10 Oct 2015 Yes, NETGEAR Routers have once again become a victim of DNS Monitoring, potentially affecting 5000 Devices. This week, we reported about a Vigilante Hacker, who protected users by installing malware…
Attacks… DDoS Attacks Create Smokescreens for Larceny 7 Oct 2015 Distributed denial of service attacks have evolved from protest tool to criminal weapon. More than one in three DDoS attacks are used to plant malware or a virus on company…
Attacks… Patreon was warned of serious website flaw 5 days before it was hacked 2 Oct 2015 Five days before Patreon.com officials said their donations website was plundered by hackers, researchers at a third-party security firm notified them that a serious programming error could lead to disastrous…
Attacks… Security firm discovers Linux botnet that hits with 150 Gbps DDoS attacks 30 Sep 2015 Akamai announced on Tuesday that its Security Intelligence Response Team has discovered a massive Linux-based botnet that's reportedly capable of downing websites under a torrent of DDoS traffic exceeding 150…
Attacks… Anonymous hacks Vietnam Government websites to protest against human rights abuse 21 Sep 201522 Sep 2015 Members of the online hacktivist group, Anonymous, AntiSec and HagashTeam have hacked and defaced a number of Vietnamese government websites. Anonymous said that the hackings were done to protest against online…
Attacks… 200 Million WhatsApp Users Vulnerable 9 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 WhatsApp recently claimed to have hit 900 Million monthly active users, but a dangerous security flaw in the web version of the popular instant messaging app puts up to 200…
Attacks… $60 device spoofs phantom objects and tricks self-driving cars into stopping 8 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 A security researcher used a homemade $60 system to outsmart self-driving car lidar sensors that cost thousands. He was able to trick an autonomous vehicle into slowing down and even…
Attacks… Android porn app takes a selfie and demands $500 ransom 8 Sep 201515 Sep 2015 A PORNOGRAPHY APPLICATION is posing a problem by taking photographs and using them as part of a blackmail scheme, according to insecurity firm Zscaler. Wow, that does sound inconvenient. We…
Attacks… Coder pleads guilty to writing Gozi banking trojan 8 Sep 20158 Sep 2015 A man credited with helping to create the infamous Gozi banking malware has pleaded guilty in a US court. Deniss Calovskis, 30, of Latvia was arrested in November 2012 and…
Attacks… China Police Arrest 15,000 Suspects for Alleged Cyber Crimes 7 Sep 20157 Sep 2015 China Police has arrested nearly 15,000 people on suspicion of cyber crimes as part of an operation dubbed "Cleaning the Internet," according to reports. According to the Chinese Ministry of…
Attacks… Employees put business data at risk by installing gambling apps on their phones 6 Sep 20156 Sep 2015 If you work for a large, global company, chances are some of your peers have installed gambling apps on the mobile devices they use for work, and that's bad news…
Attacks… Attacker Compromised Mozilla Bug System, Stole Private Vulnerability Data 5 Sep 20155 Sep 2015 Security experts constantly tell users not to reuse passwords on multiple accounts, but the message often falls on deaf ears. Now, officials at Mozilla are finding that advanced users don’t always…
Attacks… Hackers spent at least a year spying on Mozilla 5 Sep 20155 Sep 2015 Hackers have known about unpublicized and unpatched critical security holes in the Firefox web browser for a year or more – all by invading Mozilla's systems. The Mozilla Foundation admitted…
Attacks… New top-level domains pose huge online security risk 4 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 The existence of a number of new top-level domain (TLD) names has left users susceptible to a number of new online security threats.A report by security firm Blue Coat Systems…
Attacks Lizard Squad launches DDoS against UK law enforcement agency 1 Sep 20154 Sep 2015 The website of the UK's National Crime Agency was briefly affected by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack today, just a few days after the agency announced the arrest…
