Sandworm Team and the Ukrainian Power Authority Attacks

Update 1.11.16 - SANS ICS Team Connects Dots Updating the blog entry to bring attention to the recent analysis published by Mike Assante from the SANS ICS team. "After analyzing the information that has been made available by affected power companies, researchers, and the media it is clear that...

Chinese Hackers tried to Take Down Tibetan Social Networking Website

Tibet is an area in the Republic of China that has been the point of conflict for many years in China. While China believes that Tibet has been under Chinese rule for many centuries, Tibetans claim that they declared itself an independent republic in 1912. Tibetan Groups, especially pro-democracy...

JVN#50775659: CG-WLBARAGM may behave as an open proxy

CG-WLBARAGM provided by Corega Inc is a wireless LAN router. CG-WLBARAGM contains an issue where it may behave as an open proxy. Impact The device may be leveraged as a proxy server to conduct cyber attacks. Solution Apply a Workaround The following workaround may mitigate the affects of this...

Hackers Plan to Ruin Christmas Eve for Millions of PlayStation and Xbox Live Gamers

Remember the notorious hacker group Lizard Squad that spoiled last Christmas holidays of many game lovers by knocking the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live offline with apparent Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks? But, Will you be able to Play Xbox and PlayStation Game this Christmas?...

IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Focused on Law Enforcement and Public Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that law enforcement personnel and public officials may be at an increased risk of cyber attacks. In addition to doxing the act of gathering and publishing individuals' personal information without permission, threat actors have...

ISIS Calls Anonymous "IDIOTS" and Issues 5 Lame Tips for its Members to Avoid Getting Hacked

The Anonymous Hacking group on Sunday declared Total War against the ISIS, the Islamic State terror organization that claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks on Friday that killed 129 people and hundreds more injured. In a sinister video posted on YouTube, the Cyber Hacktivists said they wil...

FBI reportedly Paid $1 Million to University Researchers for UnMasking Tor Users

The non-profit Tor Project has accused the FBI of paying the security researchers of Carnegie Mellon University CMU at least $1 Million to disclose the technique they had discovered that could help them… …Unmask Tor users as well as Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. A...

TeleGraph.co.uk Cross Site Scripting

TeleGraph All Photo Picture Pages Have Been Vulnerable to XSS Cyber Attacks Website Description: http://www.telegraph.co.uk "The Daily Telegraph is a British daily morning English-language broadsheet newspaper, published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed throughout the United...

ACSC Releases 2015 Threat Report

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released its 2015 Threat Report. This report provides threat information that Australian organizations are facing, such as cyber espionage, cyber attacks, and cyber crime. Mitigation and remediation steps are also included to assist organizations with...

Social Engineering — Free Online Training for Hackers

For most of us Hacking is Technological in Nature. But, we usually forget the most important element of hacking that makes a successful hack from 10% to over 90%... ...The Human Element. And here the Social Engineering comes in. Social Engineering deals with non-technical kind of intrusion and...

Emergency Patch released for Latest Flash Zero-Day Vulnerability

Two days ago, The Hacker News THN reported about the Zero-day vulnerability in the freshly patched Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability was exploited in the wild by a well-known group of Russian hackers, named "Pawn Storm," to target several foreign affairs ministries worldwide. The zero-day fla...

European Aviation Agency Warns of Aircraft Hacking

The director of one of Europe’s top aviation agencies warned on Thursday that hackers could infiltrate critical systems in an airplane on the ground. Patrick Ky director of the European Aviation Safety Agency, said a consultant hired by the agency—one who is a commercial pilot as well—exploited...

Researcher warns about Security Loopholes in Denmark's Largest Bank

While accessing your Bank account online, Have you ever thought… ...there could be a Hacker, somewhere in the World, who is after your Money? Maybe NO. Because, you believe that your bank offers Secure banking solution, Right? At The Hacker News, we have reported many incidents of cyber attacks,...

Design Flaws Make Drones Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks

In the past, The Hacker News THN reported about various activities surrounding Drones. Whether it was the development of the first backdoor for drones MalDrone, or Weaponized drones getting legal, or Drones hacking smartphones. And now the reports depict... Security Researcher has showcased a...

Is This Security-Focused Linux Kernel Really UnHackable?

Can you name which Operating System is most Secure? ...Windows, Mac, Linux or any particular Linux Distribution? Yes, we get that! It’s not an easy thing to pick. Besides Windows, Even the so-called ultra-secure Linux Distros were found to be vulnerable to various critical flaws in past years...

​SYNful Knock: Backdoor Malware Found in Cisco Routers

Mandiant, a FireEye sister concern has been involved in researches related to cyber defense. In their recent findings, a backdoor malware named SYNful Knock identified as the one compromising the principles of Cisco routers with features such as... ...Having an everlasting effect, i.e. Serious...

Health Insurer Excellus Hacked; 10.5 Million Records Breached

Health Care Hacks — the choice of hackers this year! In a delayed revelation made by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield BCBS, which says that about 10.5 Millions of their clients' data and information has been compromised by hackers. Excellus BCBS headquartered in Rochester, New York, provides finance...

Russian Hackers Hijack Satellite To Steal Data from Thousands of Hacked Computers

A group of Russian hackers, most notably the Turla APT Advanced Persistent Threat is hijacking commercial satellites to hide command-and-control operations, a security firm said today. Turla APT group, which was named after its notorious software Epic Turla, is abusing satellite-based Internet...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I

If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong. Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed acro...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II

In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect. As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows. In this...