Badgelife: A Defcon 26 retrospective

One more year gone, one more Defcon completed. Defcon is the longest-running security conference in existence and one that I have been attending since Defcon 18. It is an opportunity to see and interact in real life with industry peers that would forever remain a digital persona otherwise. It is...

Kali Linux 2018.3 Release - Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

Kali 2018.3 brings the kernel up to version 4.17.0 and while 4.17.0 did not introduce many changes, 4.16.0 had a huge number of additions and improvements including more Spectre and Meltdown fixes, improved power management, and better GPU support. New Tools and Tool Upgrades Since our last...

Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election

Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States' Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm,...

Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election

Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States' Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm,...

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...

Instagram acknowledges & addresses hacking spree against user accounts

By Carolina If you are unable to access your Instagram account, then it is quite possible that your account has been hijacked. Reportedly, in the past few days, hundreds of Instagram accounts have been hacked. Some user accounts are partially accessible while some are completely hijacked. In its...

CVE-2017-13108

CVE-2017-13108 : DFNDR Security Antivirus, Anti-hacking & Cleaner (Android, version 5.0.9, 2017-11-01) uses a hard-coded encryption key. Data encrypted with this key can be decrypted by anyone who obtains the key, exposing potentially sensitive user data. The connected documents confirm this Andr...

CVE-2017-13108: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

DFNDR Security Antivirus, Anti-hacking & Cleaner, 5.0.9, 2017-11-01, Android application uses a hard-coded key for encryption. Data stored using this key can be decrypted by anyone able to access this key...

Defcon: 11-year-old modifies Florida Presidential voting results

By Waqas At the largest hacking conference in the world, Defcon 2018, there have been many surprising discoveries. However, the news that has shocked the United States is the hacking and modifications of election results by young kids. The 26th Defcon conference is being held in Las Vegas...

Black Hat 2018: IoT Security Issues Will Lead to Legal ‘Feeding Frenzy’

LAS VEGAS – The troves of insecure internet of things IoT devices have not yet led to widespread legal implications. But that’s set to change, a well-known attorney warned at Black Hat USA last week. Ijay Palansky, partner at the law firm Armstrong Teasdale, said at the conference last week that...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

Flaws in Pre-Installed Apps Expose Millions of Android Devices to Hackers

Bought a new Android phone? What if I say your brand new smartphone can be hacked remotely? Nearly all Android phones come with useless applications pre-installed by manufacturers or carriers, usually called bloatware, and there's nothing you can do if any of them has a backdoor built-in—even if...

Ed: Physical Laptop Takeover

At 6:16PM of August 11th of 2018, during H1-702, right before the sand storm beat the shit out of the rooftop party, we managed to perform a critical attack on Ed's infrastructure. F332214 Report Summary During our analysis and reconnaissance of how Ed program worked during the h1-702 event, we...

This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...

Snapchat Hack — Hacker Leaked Snapchat Source Code On GitHub

The source code of the popular social media app Snapchat was recently surfaced online after a hacker leaked and posted it on the Microsoft-owned code repository GitHub. A GitHub account under the name Khaled Alshehri with the handle i5xx, who claimed to be from Pakistan, created a GitHub reposito...

Ethernet place the JSON-RPC Interface to a variety of stolen currency technique big secret-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In 2010, Laszlo the use of 10,000 bitcoin to buy a $ 25 pizza is considered bitcoin in the real world in the first transaction. In 2017, the block chain technology as the digital currency's price soared and standing on the air above. Who could have imagined that in 2010 that two pieces of pizza,...

4mcad.cz XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-659407 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| 4mcad.cz Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Hacking tools & ready-made phishing pages being sold on dark web for $2

By Waqas Apple Hacking Tools Double the Cost of Other Brands on Dark Web. There was a time when hackers needed to be really smart to accomplish their malicious deeds; now they only need to spend a meager amount of money to get the necessary tools and carry out attacks. Or so it seems if we have …...

Why Enterprises Still Have to Worry about Eavesdropping

When one thinks about eavesdropping, a mental image of a shadowy stranger, hiding behind a corner and listening in on others' conversations may come to mind. With the rise of VoIP calling, however, enterprises became aware of digital eavesdropping that impacted their corporate business calls. Now...

Hackers Infect Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers With Crypto Mining Malware

Security researchers have discovered at least three massive malware campaigns exploiting hundreds of thousands of unpatched MikroTik routers to secretly install cryptocurrency miners on computers connected to them. In all, the malware campaigns have compromised more than 210,000 routers from...