Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Crime Report Notification Email Messages on May 15, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34241 First Published: 2014 May 15 14:36 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a crime report notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Russian Hacker Charged in Biggest U.S Hacking Case Doesn't Want Extradition to U.S

A Russian Hacker who was arrested in year 2012 by the authorities of the Netherlands and accused for allegedly hacking into the computer networks of more than a dozen major American corporations and stole over 160 million Credit and Debit Card Numbers. Earlier we reported, 33-year-old Russian...

Pakistani Hacker Arrested for Hacking Telecom Company Database

Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency FIA has arrested a Pakistani Hacker allegedly involved in hacking into a telecom company and uploading their database on his website. With the help of the National Response Center for Cyber Crime NR3C of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency, the local...

Popular Remote access Trojan njRAT fuels Middle East Cyber Crime

Again the sophisticated piece of malware, "njRAT" has come to picture targeting the government agencies and organizations in the Middle East, according to the research carried out by Symantec security researchers. The researchers analyzed 721 samples of malicious code ‘njRAT’ and revealed that a...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Crime Report Notification Email Messages on March 27, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33538 First Published: 2014 March 27 14:52 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a crime report notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient ...

Infamous Hacker 'Diabl0' arrested in Bangkok, responsible for $4 Billion Damage to Swiss Banks

27-year-old Infamous Moroccan-Russian hacker arrested by Thailand's Department of Special Investigation DSI in Bangkok, accused of cracking Switzerland Bank Computers and websites. Farid Essebar, went by the online screen name "Diabl0", has been wanted from last three years, and finally arrested ...

CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

U.S. based Cloud Hosting providers contribute 44% of Malware distribution

U.S. has the top Security Agencies like NSA, FBI to tackle cyber crime and terrorism with their high profile surveillance technologies, but even after that U.S is proudly hosting 44% of the entire cloud based malware distribution. With the enhancement in Internet technology, Cloud computing has...

The Ponemon Institute 2013 Cost of Cyber Crime Study is out

Before anyone else conjures up the image of Steve Martin in the Jerk running down the street with the new phone book and declaring the obvious to all around him, lets put this study in perspective. There is nothing new or unexpected in the 2013 study. We have had it confirmed that cybercrime is...

CryptoLocker Spam Campaign Targets Millions in UK

Tens of millions of online banking customers in the U.K. are the targets of a dangerous spam campaign enticing users to open an attachment containing the CryptoLocker ransomware. The U.K.’s National Crime Agency’s National Cyber Crime Unit posted an advisory late last week warning people to be...

12-year-old Boy admits to hacking major Government sites for aiding Anonymous Hackers

12-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple major government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous. Surprisingly, this Fifth Grade student wreaked computer havoc during the Quebec student uprising in 2012, traded pirated information to Anonymous...

12-year-old Boy admits to hacking major Government sites for aiding Anonymous Hackers

12-year-old Canadian has pleaded guilty to breaking into multiple major government and police websites in the name of the hacker collective Anonymous. Surprisingly, this Fifth Grade student wreaked computer havoc during the Quebec student uprising in 2012, traded pirated information to Anonymous...

FBI Shuts Down Online Drug, Hacking Market Silk Road

The FBI has taken down the infamous Silk Road underground drug market, arresting Ross William Ulbricht in San Francisco yesterday and charging him not only with the distribution of illegal drugs including heroin and LSD, but also with a number of computer hacking crimes. Ulbricht, who was known a...

22 years-old Chartered Accountant student hacks into Celebrities E-taxation Accounts

Last week a 21-year-old chartered accountant student from Hyderabad was arrested for hacking into E-taxation Account of Industrialist Anil Ambani. During the probe Mumbai Police's crime branch has emerged that Anil Ambani's account was also fraudulently accessed from Noida. After investigation,...

22 years-old Chartered Accountant student hacks into Celebrities E-taxation Accounts

Last week a 21-year-old chartered accountant student from Hyderabad was arrested for hacking into E-taxation Account of Industrialist Anil Ambani. During the probe Mumbai Police’s crime branch has emerged that Anil Ambani's account was also fraudulently accessed from Noida. After investigation,...

FBI Warning Users About Financial Malware Beta Bot

The FBI began warning computer users about the Beta Bot Trojan this week, sounding the alarm about malware that has targeted a variety of online payment platforms and financial institutions over the few last months. According to an intelligence note prepared by the Internet Crime Complaint Center...

BREACH Compression Attack Steals HTTPS Response Secrets

A serious attack against ciphertext secrets buried inside HTTPS responses has prompted an advisory from Homeland Security. The BREACH attack is an offshoot of CRIME, which was thought dead and buried after it was disclosed in September. Released at last week’s Black Hat USA 2013, BREACH enables a...

BREACH decodes HTTPS encrypted data in 30 seconds

A new hacking technique dubbed BREACH can extract login tokens, session ID numbers and other sensitive information from SSL/TLS encrypted web traffic in just 30 seconds. The technique was demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Presentation PDF & Paper by Gluck along with...

BREACH vulnerability in compressed HTTPS

Overview By observing the length of compressed HTTPS responses, an attacker may be able to derive plaintext secrets from the ciphertext of an HTTPS stream. Description Angelo Prado of Salesforce.com reports:Extending the CRIME vulnerability presented at Ekoparty 2012, an attacker can target HTTPS...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...