Hacking the Bitfi. Part 2: John McAfee’s video

The unhackable Bitfi story isn't going away any time soon. Following John McAfee's tweet yesterday that he would put out a "definitive video countering all of the nonsense claims instigated and co-coordinated by BirFi's sic established, monolithic competitors in the hardware wallet space" here's ...

Huge Cryptomining Attack on ISP-Grade Routers Spreads Globally

UPDATE A massive hacking campaign has been uncovered, compromising tens of thousands of MikroTik routers to embed Coinhive cryptomining scripts in websites using a known vulnerability. As of Thursday morning, Censys.io has reported more than 170,000 active MikroTik devices infected with the...

Notorious hacking group Fin7’s 3 main hackers arrested by the FBI

By Waqas Three members of a ‘prolific’ and ‘notorious’ hacking group, known for carrying out massive hacking sprees against high-profile organizations have been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. According to the US Department of Justice DOJ, the arrested individuals were leadin...

3 Carbanak (FIN7) Hackers Charged With Stealing 15 Million Credit Cards

Three members of one of the world's largest cybercrime organizations that stole over a billion euros from banks across the world over the last five years have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The three suspects are believed to be...

DOJ Nabs Three FIN7 Cybercrime Suspects in Europe

Three suspected members of the FIN7 cybercrime group have been arrested in Europe and accused of hacking more than 120 U.S.-based companies with the intent of stealing bank cards. In total, U.S. Department of Justice authorities said the FIN7 group — associated with the Carbanak crime gang — is...

Advanced Man in the Middle Attack Framework: Evilginx

Evilginx is an attack framework for setting up phishing pages. Instead of serving templates of sign-in pages lookalikes, Evilginx becomes a relay between the real website and the phished user . Phished user interacts with the real website, while Evilginx captures all the data being transmitted...

Hacking a Robot Vacuum

The Diqee 360 robotic vacuum cleaner can be turned into a surveillance device. The attack requires physical access to the device, so in the scheme of things it's not a big deal. But why in the world is the vacuum equipped with a microphone?...

Hacking Swann & FLIR/Lorex home security camera video

A few weeks back we read a story on the BBC web site about a BBC employee seeing someone else’s video footage on the mobile app for their home security camera. It wasn’t clear how this happened, but we were intrigued, so we bought several of the cameras in question to see for ourselves. We put a...

iPhone Hacking Campaign Using MDM Software Is Broader Than Previously Known

India-linked highly targeted mobile malware campaign, first unveiled two weeks ago, has been found to be part of a broader campaign targeting multiple platforms, including windows devices and possibly Android as well. As reported in our previous article, earlier this month researchers at Talos...

New Bluetooth Hack Affects Millions of Devices from Major Vendors

Yet another bluetooth hacking technique has been uncovered. A highly critical cryptographic vulnerability has been found affecting some Bluetooth implementations that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker in physical proximity of targeted devices to intercept, monitor or manipulate the...

Hackers attack Russian bank to steal $1m using an outdated router

By Waqas Cybercriminals part of a notorious hacking group attacked the PIR Bank of Russia and stole $1m. The hacking was carried out after infiltrating the bank’s systems by compromising an old, outdated router. The router was installed at one of the regional branches of the bank. The money was...

Singapore's Largest Healthcare Group Hacked, 1.5 Million Patient Records Stolen

Singapore's largest healthcare group, SingHealth, has suffered a massive data breach that allowed hackers to snatch personal information on 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth clinics between May 2015 and July 2018. SingHealth is the largest healthcare group in Singapore with 2 tertiary...

Microsoft Says Russia Tried to Hack Three 2018 Midterm Election Candidates

Microsoft said it detected and helped the US government to block Russian hacking attempts against at least three congressional candidates this year, a Microsoft executive revealed speaking at the Aspen Security Forum today. Although the company refused to name the targets but said, the three...

Top 10 vulnerable airports where your device can be hacked

By Waqas The aviation industry is growing, thanks to millions of passengers traveling around the world. According to Statista, in 2017, 36.8 million flights were operated worldwide while the Bureau of Transportation Statistics revealed PDF that in 2017, U.S.-based airlines transported over 746...

Woman charged for hacking & leaking private pictures of Selena Gomez

By Carolina Selena Gomez, a well-known celebrity pop star, is in the news for getting her email hacked that led to the exposure of her personal pictures on the internet. A 21-year old female has been arrested and charged for performing the hacking of Gomez’ email. Susan Atrach from Ridgefield Par...

Luminosity RAT author pleads guilty to creating & selling hacking tool

By Waqas In February this year, we informed our readers about the unceremonious closure met by the infamous hacking tool Luminosity RAT at the hands of law enforcement authorities from Australia, Europe, and North America. Users could no longer feel threatened by the dangerous RAT, which was also...

21-Year-Old Woman Charged With Hacking Selena Gomez's Email Account

A 21-year-old New Jersey woman has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of pop star and actress Selena Gomez, stealing her personal photos, and then leaked them to the Internet. Susan Atrach of Ridgefield Park was charged Thursday with 11 felony counts—five counts of identity theft,...

21-Year-Old Woman Charged With Hacking Selena Gomez's Email Account

A 21-year-old New Jersey woman has been charged with hacking into the email accounts of pop star and actress Selena Gomez, stealing her personal photos, and then leaked them to the Internet. Susan Atrach of Ridgefield Park was charged Thursday with 11 felony counts—five counts of identity theft,...

21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty

As it was speculated that the author of LuminosityLink RAT was arrested last year, a plea agreement made available to the public today confirmed the news. Back in September last year, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3 and National Crime Agency began the crackdown on the LuminosityLink RAT,...

‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called "LuminosityLink," a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. Th...