Hackers Crack Pirated Games with Cryptojacking Malware

A new Monero cryptojacking malware distributed via “cracked” versions of popular online games is wiping out antivirus programs AVs and surreptitiously mining cryptocurrency in more than a dozen countries, researchers have found. Dubbed “Crackonosh,” the malware — which has been active since June...

Crackonosh virus mined $2 million of Monero from 222,000 hacked computers

A previously undocumented Windows malware has infected over 222,000 systems worldwide since at least June 2018, yielding its developer no less than 9,000 Moneros $2 million in illegal profits. Dubbed "Crackonosh," the malware is distributed via illegal, cracked copies of popular software, only to...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack Sprung by Frugal Student

A European biomolecular research institute involved in COVID-19 research lost a week’s worth of research data, all thanks to a Ryuk ransomware attack traced back to a student trying to save money by buying unlicensed software. Security researchers at Sophos described the attack in a report...

The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Is Finally Cracked After 51 Years

Amateur and professional cryptographers, including those at the FBI, had been trying to decode the infamous serial killer's message to the media for decades...

BlackBerry Phone Cracked

Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key piece of evidence in one of the state's longest-running drug importation investigations. In...

CVE-2010-3359

If LDLIBRARYPATH is undefined in gargoyle-free before 2009-08-25, the variable will point to the current directory. This can allow a local user to trick another user into running gargoyle in a directory with a cracked libgarglk.so and gain access to the user's account...

UNIX Co-Founder Ken Thompson's BSD Password Has Finally Been Cracked

A 39-year-old password of Ken Thompson, the co-creator of the UNIX operating system among, has finally been cracked that belongs to a BSD-based system, one of the original versions of UNIX, which was back then used by various computer science pioneers. In 2014, developer Leah Neukirchen spotted a...

New Mac cryptominer Malwarebytes detects as Bird Miner runs by emulating Linux

A new Mac cryptocurrency miner Malwarebytes detects as Bird Miner has been found in a cracked installer for the high-end music production software Ableton Live. The software is used as an instrument for live performances by DJs, as well as a tool for composing, recording, mixing, and mastering. A...

Scranos: New Rapidly Evolving Rootkit-Enabled Spyware Discovered

A new powerful rootkit-enabled spyware operation has been discovered wherein hackers are distributing multifunctional malware disguised as cracked software or trojanized app posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. While the rootkit malware—dubbed...

Student Cracks Inca Knot Code

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Denuvo DRM Cracked within a Day of Release

Denuvo is probably the best digital-rights management system, used to protect computer games. It's regularly cracked within a day. If Denuvo can no longer provide even a single full day of protection from cracks, though, that protection is going to look a lot less valuable to publishers. But that...

Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Exclusive — If you have an account on Taringa, also known as "The Latin American Reddit," your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users...

CVE-2017-9859

An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products. The inverters make use of a weak hashing algorithm to encrypt the password for REGISTER requests. This hashing algorithm can be cracked relatively easily. An attacker will likely be able to crack the password using offline crackers. This...

Tootsie Bus Android app suffers from a cracked sign signature algorithm leading to arbitrary phone number login vulnerability

Tuk Tuk Bus is a bus shuttle customization mobile service platform for people who have the same travel needs. The Tuk Tuk Bus Android app suffers from a cracked sign signature algorithm leading to an arbitrary cell phone number login vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to lo...

Hacker Selling Over 1 Million Decrypted Gmail and Yahoo Passwords On Dark Web

Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, according to the recent news, login credentials and other...

Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Tongda OA Cracked Version

Tongda OA office system is a domestic office software. Tongda OA Crack version of the existence of arbitrary file upload vulnerability, allowing attackers to exploit the vulnerability to upload arbitrary files to obtain control of the site...

Cracked Screen Live Wallpaper - Base64 encoded String, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Cracked Screen Live Wallpaper published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Cracked screen - Dangerous filesystem permissions, External URLs, SD-card access vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Cracked screen published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

China Police Arrest 15,000 Suspects for Alleged Cyber Crimes

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 Public Security MPS, the suspects have been arrested for their involvement in cyber crimes that "jeopardiz...

Johnny - GUI for John the Ripper

Johnny is a cross-platform open-source GUI for the popular password cracker John the Ripper. Features 1. user could start, pause and resume attack though only one session is allowed globally, 2. all attack related options work, 3. all input file formats are supported pure hashes, pwdump, passwd,...