U.S. Ties Lazarus to North Korea and Major Hacking Conspiracy

The Justice Department has charged a North Korean man in the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment SPE in 2014 – as well as the global WannaCry attack last year that caused millions of dollars of economic damage and also charged him with the costly 2016 SWIFT attack on the Bangladesh central ban...

A week in security (August 27 – September 2)

Last week, we looked at dubious antics in mobile land, a peculiar case of spam on the official Cardi B website, and we deep dived into fileless malware. We also explored the inner workings of Hidden Bee, and gave an explainer of Regex. Other cybersecurity news: Huge data breach affects Chinese...

Hacker who leaked naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence jailed for 8 months

By Carolina A Connecticut, USA based hacker who hacked more than 200 iCloud accounts and leaked private photos of top Hollywood celebrities and other people was sentenced to eight months in prison last Wednesday 29. In addition to the incarcerated time, George Garofano, 26, is scheduled to serve...

16-Year-Old Teen Hacked Apple Servers, Stole 90GB of Secure Files

Well, there's something quite embarrassing for Apple fans. Though Apple servers are widely believed to be unhackable, a 16-year-old high school student proved that nothing is impossible. The teenager from Melbourne, Australia, managed to break into Apple servers and downloaded some 90GB of secure...

New PHP Code Execution Attack Puts WordPress Sites at Risk

Sam Thomas, a security researcher from Secarma, has discovered a new exploitation technique that could make it easier for hackers to trigger critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language using previously low-risk considered functions. The new technique leaves hundreds of...

Under the hoodie: why money, power, and ego drive hackers to cybercrime

Just one more hour behind the hot grill flipping burgers, and Derek could call it a day. Under his musty hat, his hair was matted down with sweat, and his work uniform was spattered with grease. He knew he’d smell the processed meat and smoke for the next three days, even after he’d showered. But...

Hacker leaks Snapchat’s source code on Github

By Waqas Pakistani Hacker Posted Authentic Snapchat Source Code on GitHub - Snapchat’s source code is stolen…can there be a bigger news than that? Perhaps there is! Not only that the source code has been stolen but also posted on Microsoft-owned GitHub of all the platforms. Reportedly, the hacker...

iPhone Chip Supplier TSMC Stops Production After Computer Virus Attack

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC—Apple's sole supplier of SoC components for iPhones and iPads, and Qualcomm's major manufacturing partner—shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories Friday night after being hit by a computer virus. The world's largest makers of...

A Look at Scan4You and the Counter Antivirus Service Landscape

The concept of antivirus AV scanning within IT security is simple and effective. These programs, which have become part and parcel of typical infrastructure and data protection strategies, scan enterprise networks for known malware signatures and other processes associated with suspicious hacker...

Reddit Hacked – Emails, Passwords, Private Messages Stolen

Another day, another significant data breach. This time the victim is Reddit... seems someone is really pissed off with Reddit's account ban policy or bias moderators. Reddit social media network today announced that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its users' data,...

Reddit Breach Stems from SMS Two-Factor Authentication Breakdown

Reddit confirmed Wednesday that a hacker broke into its systems and has accessed user data – including email addresses and passwords for accounts. The company said in a post today that the compromise occurred between June 14 and June 18, and it detected the incident on June 19. “We learned that a...

Don't let your factory plant become the next cybersecurity victim

In 2014, a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after hijacked by a botnet attack. It is the first documented attack worldwide for Internet of Things to have fallen prey to hackersi. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet connected...

Stealthy Malware Hidden in Images Takes to GoogleUserContent

Malware that uses Exchangeable Image File Format EXIF data to hide its code has migrated to a new platform: GoogleUserContent sites, such as Google+ and blogger forums. In this technique, previously seen on Pastebin and GitHub, hackers embed malicious code within uploaded images – a stealthy...

Hacker Sold Stolen U.S. Military Drone Documents On Dark Web For Just $200

You never know what you will find on the hidden Internet 'Dark Web.' Just about an hour ago we reported about someone selling remote access linked to security systems at a major International airport for $10. It has been reported that a hacker was found selling sensitive US Air Force documents on...

Hacker selling classified information on MQ-9 Reaper Drone on dark web

By Waqas We do know that stealing and selling private information of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker selling classified information on MQ-9 Reaper Drone on dark web...

Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks

ARCHIVED STORY Organizations Leave Backdoors Open to Cheap Remote Desktop Protocol Attacks By John Fokker · July 11, 2018 Thanks to my colleague Christiaan Beek for his advice and contributions. While researching underground hacker marketplaces, the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team has...

Apache Struts2 high-risk vulnerabilities cause the Enterprise Server is the invasion mounted KoiMiner mining Trojan-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0×1 Overview Many business websites use the Apache open source project to build a http server, which is most of the use of the Apache sub-project of Struts in. But since the Apache Struts2 Product code there are more risks, beginning in 2007, Struts2 will frequently broke multiple high-risk...

More Federal Agencies Wrapped Up in Facebook Data Privacy Probe

The Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, and the Department of Justice are now reportedly investigating the social media giant after it failed to disclose that more than the data of 70 million platform users had leaked through a third-party application, sources told the Washington Post, Monda...

Navigating an Uncharted Future, Bug Bounty Hunters Seek Safe Harbors

When researcher Kevin Finisterre found a security error in drone-maker DJI’s systems enabling him to access flight log data and images of customers, he thought he had hit the $30,000 jackpot as part of the drone company’s newly announced bug bounty program. Instead, when the incident occurred in...

Mac malware targets cryptomining users

Last week, a security researcher named Remco Verhoef announced the discovery of a new piece of Mac malware being distributed on cryptomining chat groups. This malware was later further analyzed by Patrick Wardle, who gave it the rather appropriate moniker OSX.Dummy. The malware was being...