Showing posts with label Hacking News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hacking News. Show all posts

Half a Million ASUS Devices were Infected with BackDoors said Kaspersky

Kaspersky said they found backdoors in the updates pushed by the ASUS update server, They also said that it’s been happening for at least...

Recent Cyber Attacks - Latest News, Breaking Stories and Much More

1.    TRITON Malware Security researchers have uncovered another nasty piece of malware designed specifically to target industrial c...

Cloud Storage as a Primary Storage for Students

The increasing amount of data in various digital forms and the desire to have access to it from various devices has increased the importan...

How Hackers are Skirting WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption?

WhatsApp rolled out end-to-end encryption feature for all its users in April 2016. As a result, all the calls, messages, multimedia files ...

How wannaCry Ransomware Works

What is Ransomware ? Ransomware   is a subset of malware in which the data on a victim's computer is locked, typically by encryption...

British 15-year-old gained access to intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be head of CIA, court hears

15-year-old gained access to plans for intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran by pretending to be the head of the CIA to gain acc...

FBI Allowed by US Court to Keep iPhone Hacking Tool a Secret

A US court has allowed the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to keep secret the information regarding the tool that was used to hack i...

Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Then Tipped The NSA That Its Tools Had Been Breached

In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that cou...

Microsoft Said to Have Responded Quietly to Hack of Secret Bug Tracking Database

Microsoft Corp's secret internal database for tracking bugs in its own software was broken into by a highly sophisticated hacking grou...

Kaspersky Says It Obtained Suspected NSA Hacking Code From US Computer

Moscow-based antivirus software maker   Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday that its security software had taken source code for a secret ...

Security Flaw in LG Smart Ovens Could Have Allowed Hackers to Remotely Activate Them: Check Point

A security flaw in LG's smart home devices gave hackers a way to control the household appliances of millions of customers, including ...

Kaspersky Acknowledges Taking Inactive Files in Pursuit of Hackers

Eugene Kaspersky said his company's widely used antivirus software has copied files that did not threaten the personal computers o...

Famous Dark Web Thief Phishkingz Threatened to Finally Be Unmasked

It was  recently discovered  through a Reddit post that the notorious Phishkingz Drak Web user has finally had a taste of his own medicine...

Major Botnet ‘Reaper’ Discovered: Huge Cyber Shut Down is Coming

Experts have recently discovered a  major new  botnet hackers have created and named Reaper. Similar to another event that took place in...

New Ransomware DoubleLocker Targets Android Phones

Cyber criminals have once again launched a ransomware attack on android based phones. Look out for a compromised Adobe Flash Player app ...

Proton Malware Found Hiding in Elmedia Player Downloads

Researchers at ESET, a popular cyber security software,  discovered  the Elmedia Player download has been laced with Proton malware so...

The Rise of Super Stealthy Digitally Signed Malware From Dark Web

A recent study conducted by the Cyber Security Research Institute (CSRI) this week revealed that stolen digital code-signing certifica...

Hackers Distribute Backdoored IOT Vulnerability Scanning Script to hack Script kiddies

Now, a security researcher has spotted another hacking tool—this time a PHP script—which is freely available on multiple popular undergrou...

Intel Skylake processors can be hacked via USB ports

Back in September 2017, Positive Technologies’ experts had expressed interest in the development of a technique that can attack the yet se...

Phishing attacks tricks users by sending messages from Trusted websites

What is Phishing? Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credi...