Cola-Cola breach: ex-employee stole hard drive with 8,000 workers’ data

By Carolina The world-renowned carbonated soft drink producer Cola-Cola has announced that it has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cola-Cola breach: ex-employee stole hard drive with 8,000 workers' data...

FBI seizes VPNFilter botnet domain that infected 500,000 routers

By Waqas It is believed that the botnet was run by infamous This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI seizes VPNFilter botnet domain that infected 500,000 routers...

New Cryptominer Distributes XMRig in Aggressive Attacks

Hackers behind cryptominer attacks are growing more aggressive and ruthless. Case and point, a cryptominer malware sample dubbed WinstarNssmMiner has been tracked in 500,000 attacks in the past three days, earning the crooks $28,000, according to researchers. What makes the cryptominer so vicious...

“Equi-Facts”: Equifax Clarifies the Numbers for Its Massive Breach

As companies continue to install the vulnerable version of Apache Struts behind the breach, Equifax has filed a clarification statement. The number of impacted U.S. consumers from the infamous 2017 Equifax data breach now totals about 147.9 million, and the breach has touched almost every adult i...

A cryptocurrency platform exposed sensitive data of 25,000 users

By Waqas Bezop, a cryptocurrency startup exposed highly personal details of more This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A cryptocurrency platform exposed sensitive data of 25,000 users...

Facebook Offering $40,000 Bounty If You Find Evidence Of Data Leaks

Facebook pays millions of dollars every year to researchers and bug hunters to stamp out security holes in its products and infrastructure, but following Cambridge Analytica scandal, the company today launched a bounty program to reward users for reporting "data abuse" on its platform. The move...

Finland's 3rd Largest Data Breach Exposes 130,000 Users' Plaintext Passwords

Over 130,000 Finnish citizens have had their credentials compromised in what appears to be third largest data breach ever faced by the country, local media reports. Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority FICORA is warning users of a large-scale data breach in a website maintained by the New...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 12, 2018

This week marked the 11th annual Pwn2Own contest held during the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver and while the contest had fewer entries compared to previous years, it was still an exciting event filled with a little drama. Over the course of two days, the Zero Day Initiative awarded $267,000...

Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online

By Waqas For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Memcached DDoS Attack PoC Code & 17,000 IP addresses Posted Online...

CVE-2018-1000115

Memcached version 1.5.5 contains an Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume Network Amplification, CWE-406 vulnerability in the UDP support of the memcached server that can result in denial of service via network flood traffic amplification of 1:50,000 has been reported by reliable sources...

Phishing Scam: Hackers Steal $900,000 from County Office

By Waqas Another day, another phishing scam - This time Harris County, Texas This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishing Scam: Hackers Steal $900,000 from County Office...

Private Details of 240,000 DHS Employees Accessed after Data Breach

By Uzair Amir A data breach targeted towards the Department of Homeland Security This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Private Details of 240,000 DHS Employees Accessed after Data Breach...

Ancestry.com’ RootsWeb breach: 300,000 plaintext accounts leaked

By Waqas Another day another data breach, this time it is Ancestry.com, the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ancestry.com RootsWeb breach: 300,000 plaintext accounts leaked...

After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret

Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company suffered a massive data breach in October 2016 that exposed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 57...

CCleaner Backdoor Attack: A State-sponsored Espionage Campaign

By Waqas Infected CCleaner Software Attack that Affected 700,000 Customers is part This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CCleaner Backdoor Attack: A State-sponsored Espionage Campaign...

Samsung wants you to hack its devices and get up to $200,000

By Waqas Its a fact that Android is one of the most This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Samsung wants you to hack its devices and get up to $200,000...

Guilty in Absence: Pirate Bay Founders to pay €405,000 to Record Labels

By Uzair Amir The file sharing giant, The Pirate Bay, is in the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Guilty in Absence: Pirate Bay Founders to pay €405,000 to Record Labels...

Hack Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal app; get $500,000

By Waqas If you are a hacker or a security researcher, it This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hack Telegram, WhatsApp and Signal app; get $500,000...

Mamba Ransomware Returns, APT Trends, And More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week including the return of the Mamba ransomware, Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 APT report, Bugcrowd’s 250K mystery bounty, and a high schooler’s $10K bug bounty from Google. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust112017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes...

Researcher Claims Samsung's Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!

A researcher has claimed that Samsung's Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could also lead to thousands of vulnerabilities. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source operating system backe...