PHP Cloud mining Script - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Bitcoin,Dogecoin Mining 1.0 - Authentication Bypass Dork: N/A Date: 21.08.2017 Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/user/bousague Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/bitcoindogecoin-mining-php-script/20315581 Demo:...

Locky Ransomware Variant Slips Past Some Defenses

A variant of the notorious Locky ransomware is part of a large scale email-based campaign managing to slip past the defenses of some unsuspecting companies. Beginning on Aug. 9, and lasting three days, ransomware called IKARUSdilapidated landed in tens of thousands of inboxes with email that...

Corrupt Federal Agent, Who Stole Bitcoins From Silk Road, Pleads Guilty To Money Laundering

A former the United States Secret Service agent who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Bitcoins during an investigation into then-largest underground marketplace Silk Road has now pleaded guilty to money laundering. Shaun W. Bridges is one of two former US undercover agents who plead...

Warning: Two Dangerous Ransomware Are Back – Protect Your Computers

Ransomware has been around for a few years but has become an albatross around everyone's neck—from big businesses and financial institutions to hospitals and individuals worldwide—with cyber criminals making millions of dollars. In just past few months, we saw a scary strain of ransomware attacks...

WannaCry Bitcoin Withdrawn; 'Killswitch' Researcher Detained in Nevada

Someone on Wednesday began withdrawing Bitcoin from three wallets connected to the WannaCry ransomware attacks. According to a Twitter bot that tracks the status of each wallet, seven withdrawals were made yesterday starting at around 11 a.m. Eastern time. The wallets contained a little more than...

FBI Arrests Researcher Who Found 'Kill-Switch' to Stop Wannacry Ransomware

The 22-year-old British security researcher who gained fame for discovering the "kill switch" that stopped the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware—has been reportedly arrested in the United States after attending the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas. Marcus Hutchins, operates under the ali...

Hackers Behind WannaCry Ransomware Withdraw $143,000 From Bitcoin Wallets

The cyber criminals behind the global WannaCry ransomware attack that caused chaos worldwide have finally cashed out their ransom payments. Nearly three months ago, the WannaCry ransomware shut down hospitals, telecom providers, and many businesses worldwide, infecting hundreds of thousands of...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2017

News Overview The second quarter of 2017 saw DDoS attacks being more and more frequently used as a tool for political struggle. The Qatar crisis was accompanied by an attack on the website of Al Jazeera, the largest news network in the area, Le Monde and Le Figaro websites were targeted in the he...

Bitcoin Ticker Widget - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Bitcoin Ticker Widget published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

How Hackers Cash Out Thousands of Bitcoins Received in Ransomware Attacks

Digital currencies have emerged as a favourite tool for hackers and cyber criminals, as digital currency transactions are nearly anonymous, allowing cyber criminals to use it in underground markets for illegal trading, and to receive thousands of dollars in ransomware attacks—WannaCry, Petya,...

Google StuGoogle Study Quantifies Ransomware Profitsdy Quantifies Ransomware Revenue

LAS VEGAS—Over the past two years, 35 unique ransomware strains earned cybercriminals $25 million, with Locky and its many variants being the most profitable. The data comes from a study debuted Wednesday at Black Hat by Google, Chainalysis, UC San Diego, and the NYU Tandom School of Engineering...

Bitcoin Exchange Operator Arrested For $4 Billion Money Laundering Scheme

Greek police have arrested a Russian man who is believed to have been the operator of the popular BTC-e Bitcoin exchange on charges of laundering more than $4 billion in bitcoin for culprits involved in hacking attacks, tax fraud and drug trafficking. A United States jury indicted 38-year-old...

HawkEye Credential Theft Malware Distributed in Recent Phishing Campaign

A wide variety of threat actors began distributing HawkEye malware through high-volume email campaigns after it became available for purchase via a public-facing website. The actors behind the phishing campaigns typically used email themes based on current events and media reports that would piqu...

HawkEye Credential Theft Malware Distributed in Recent Phishing Campaign

A wide variety of threat actors began distributing HawkEye malware through high-volume email campaigns after it became available for purchase via a public-facing website. The actors behind the phishing campaigns typically used email themes based on current events and media reports that would piqu...

HawkEye Credential Theft Malware Distributed in Recent Phishing Campaign

A wide variety of threat actors began distributing HawkEye malware through high-volume email campaigns after it became available for purchase via a public-facing website. The actors behind the phishing campaigns typically used email themes based on current events and media reports that would piqu...

Forecasting the Future of Ransomware

There's no question that ransomware is one of the most formidable threats to a business. With so much riding on digitized data, important applications and other systems, any interruption to access of these crucial assets can quickly spell disaster for an organization. Despite efforts on the part ...

After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police

Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it wasn't until today, when the U.S. Justice Department held a press conference to detail the...

A King’s Ransom It is Not

The first half of 2017 began with two intriguing ransomware events, both partly enabled by wormable exploit technology dumped by a group calling themselves "The ShadowBrokers". These WannaCry and ExPetr ransomware events are the biggest in the sense that they spread the quickest and most...

NemucodAES Ransomware, Kovter Click-Fraud Malware Spreading in Same Campaigns

Two malware families, NemucodAES and Kovter, are being packaged together in .zip attachments and delivered via active spam campaigns. Researcher Brad Duncan said, “together these two pieces of malware could deliver a nasty punch.” Duncan, a handler at the SANS Institute Internet Storm Center, sai...

Russian Financial Cybercriminal Gets Over 9 Years In U.S. Prison

A 29-year-old Russian-born, Los Angeles resident has been sentenced to over nine years in prison for running botnets of half a million computers and stealing and trafficking tens of thousands of credit card numbers on exclusive Russian-speaking cybercriminal forums. Alexander Tverdokhlebov was...