U.S. Indicts North Korean Hackers in Theft of $200 Million

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against three men accused of working with the North Korean regime to carry out some of the most damaging cybercrime attacks over the past decade, including the 2014 hack of Sony Pictures, the global WannaCry ransomware contagion of 2017, and...

Feds Indict North Korean Hackers for Years of Heists

The three men are allegedly part of a group that tried to steal $1.3 billion in an extended—and ongoing—cybercrime spree...

Misconfigured Baby Cams Allow Unauthorized Viewing

A vulnerability affecting multiple baby monitors could allow someone to drop in and view a camera’s video stream, according to researchers. Potentially hundreds of thousands of live devices are impacted, they said. The issue exists in the manufacturers’ implementation of the Real-Time Streaming...

Chinese Supply-Chain Attack on Computer Systems

Bloomberg News has a major story about the Chinese hacking computer motherboards made by Supermicro, Levono, and others. Its been going on since at least 2008. The US government has known about it for almost as long, and has tried to keep the attack secret: Chinas exploitation of products made by...

Iranian Hackers Utilize ScreenConnect to Spy On UAE, Kuwait Government Agencies

UAE and Kuwait government agencies are targets of a new cyberespionage campaign potentially carried out by Iranian threat actors, according to new research. Attributing the operation to be the work of Static Kitten aka MERCURY or MuddyWater, Anomali said the "objective of this activity is to...

10 SIM-swapping hackers nabbed for targeting US celebrities

By Waqas Europol has announced arresting 10 hackers involved in large scale SIM-swapping attacks targeting high-profile celebrities in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 SIM-swapping hackers nabbed for targeting US celebrities...

Cyberpunk 2077 Maker Was Hit With Ransomware—and Won't Pay Up

CD Projekt Red's list of woes gets longer, as hackers claim to have stolen the source code for their most popular games...

Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water

The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by an individual or group of hackers that occurred Friday last week. If it hadnt been caught in time, at least 15,000 people could have been affected. In a Monday pres...

Hacker Tried Poisoning Water Supply After Breaking Into Florida's Treatment System

Hackers successfully infiltrated the computer system controlling a water treatment facility in the U.S. state of Florida and remotely changed a setting that drastically altered the levels of sodium hydroxide NaOH in the water. During a press conference held yesterday, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob...

CVE-2021-21148

Heap buffer overflow in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 88.0.4324.150 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at February 05, 2021 4:25pm UTC reported: Reported as exploited in the wild at...

SonicWall Zero-Day

Hackers are exploiting a zero-day in SonicWall: In an email, an NCC Group spokeswoman wrote: "Our team has observed signs of an attempted exploitation of a vulnerabilitythat affects the SonicWall SMA 100 series devices. We are working closely with SonicWall to investigate this in more depth." In...

Presidential Cybersecurity and Pelotons

President Biden wants his Peloton in the White House. For those who have missed the hype, its an Internet-connected stationary bicycle. It has a screen, a camera, and a microphone. You can take live classes online, work out with your friends, or join the exercise social network. And all of that i...

New Chrome Browser 0-day Under Active Attack—Update Immediately!

Google has patched a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome web browser for desktop that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. The company released 88.0.4324.150 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a fix for a heap buffer overflow flaw CVE-2021-21148 in its V8 JavaScript rendering engine...

Hackers leak millions of Airtel India user data with Aadhaar numbers

By Waqas Airtel India claims it did not suffer a data breach and there are inaccuracies in claims made by the hackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leak millions of Airtel India user data with Aadhaar numbers...

Hackers access customers database by scamming UScellular staff

By Waqas The data breach may have allowed unauthorized individuals to access UScellular wireless customers' accounts and wireless phone numbers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers access customers database by scamming UScellular staff...

5 cases when ethical hackers saved companies from devastating hacks

By Habiba Rashid Ethical hackers are the good guys in the cybersecurity industry - Here are 5 instances where these hackers have rescued companies from cyberattacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 cases when ethical hackers saved companies from devastating hacks...

Including Hackers in NATO Wargames

This essay makes the point that actual computer hackers would be a useful addition to NATO wargames: The international information security community is filled with smart people who are not in a military structure, many of whom would be excited to pose as independent actors in any upcoming...

Hezbollah linked hackers hit companies in global malware attack

By Deeba Ahmed The APT group has developed a new version of Explosive malware RAT remote access trojan and stealthily hacking businesses worldwide. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hezbollah linked hackers hit companies in global malware attack...

Apple Warns of 3 iOS Zero-Day Security Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild

Apple on Tuesday released updates for iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS with fixes for three security vulnerabilities that it says may have been actively exploited in the wild. Reported by an anonymous researcher, the three zero-day flaws — CVE-2021-1782, CVE-2021-1870, and CVE-2021-1871 — could have allowed...

TikTok vulnerability allowed hackers to access users’ phone numbers

By Waqas The vulnerability which has now been fixed by TikTok existed in its "Find Friends." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok vulnerability allowed hackers to access users phone numbers...