U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang 王 福 杰 and another hacker named John Doe...

“There Are No Hackers, There Are Only Spies”

In December 2015, I opened a letter from the Office of Personnel Management. The OPM oversees healthcare and insurance programs, administers retirement and benefit services, and assists federal agencies in hiring new employees and providing federal investigative services for background checks. Th...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since, then the vulnerabilities and tools have been used by both government and criminals, and put the NSA's...

Executive hacked competitor’s website to steal students meal preferences

By Ryan De Souza Top Executive at Bay Area School Lunch Provider Arrested for Hacking into Competitor’s Website to Access Students Meal Preferences. Personal rivalry and competitiveness can compel people to get involved in all sorts of bizarre activities and the latest incident is clear proof of...

Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak

By Ryan De Souza Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency NSA and exploit them to attack American private...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them. According to a new report published by...

What Israel's Strike on Hamas Hackers Means For Cyberwar

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a building that allegedly housed an active Hamas hacking group—a potential first for cyberwar...

Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain

Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...

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Pre-Installed Software Flaw Exposes Most Dell Computers to Remote Hacking

If you use a Dell computer, then beware — hackers could compromise your system remotely. Bill Demirkapi, a 17-year-old independent security researcher, has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Dell SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on most Dell computers...

Thousands of firms hit by Beapy malware using NSA hacking tools

By Ryan De Souza EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency NSA, which were stolen about two years back. The new malware...

Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool RAT implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT, a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million compute...

Is Your Baby Monitor Susceptible to Hacking?

There’s no doubt that digital technology, in many of its forms, brings everyday tasks much closer-to-hand. From discovering breaking news, to online shopping, to keeping tabs on your home via security cameras—everything is within the touch of a button. Even so, with the growing reach of the...

Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

Indian information technology IT outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. NYSE:WIT is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company's customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. Wipro has refused to respond...

Zeebsploit - Web Scanner / Exploitation / Information Gathering

zeebsploit is a tool for hacking searching for web information and scanning vulnerabilities of a web Installation & Usage apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/jaxBCD/Zeebsploit.git cd Zeebsploit chmod +x install ./install python3 zeebsploit.py type 'help' for show modules and follow...

Say hello to Baldr, a new stealer on the market

By William Tsing, Vasilios Hioureas, and Jérôme Segura Over the past few months, we have noticed increased activity and development of new stealers. Unlike many banking Trojans that wait for the victim to log into their bank's website, stealers typically operate in grab-and-go mode. This means th...

Facebook Let Dozens of Cybercrime Groups Operate in Plain Sight

Who needs the dark web? Researchers found 74 groups offering stolen credit cards and hacking tools with simple Facebook searches...

Hacking Superyachts. Advice for owners

If you own a superyacht they are your homes, your offices, your play areas. They are islands of exclusivity and provide safety and security and above all privacy, but are they really as secure and private as you hope they are? Finding your yacht Most yachts have safety features such as Automatic...

FFM (Freedom Fighting Mode) - Open Source Hacking Harness

FFM is a hacking harness that you can use during the post-exploitation phase of a red-teaming engagement. The idea of the tool was derived from a 2007 conference from @thegrugq. It was presented at SSTIC 2018 and the accompanying slide deck is available at this url. If you're not familiar with th...

Hackers Steal $19 Million From Bithumb Cryptocurrency Exchange

Hackers yesterday stole nearly $19 million worth of cryptocurrency from Bithumb , the South Korea-based popular cryptocurrency exchange admitted today. According to Primitive Ventures' Dovey Wan, who first broke the information on social media, hackers managed to compromise a number of Bithumb's...