CoreBot Adds New Capabilities, Transitions to Banking Trojan

As researchers expected it would, CoreBot, the credential-stealing malware that surfaced last month, has added a bevy of new capabilities and reinvented itself as a robust banking Trojan. Researchers said the malware shares more similarities with Dyre, another high profile banking Trojan, than a...

Chris Valasek Security of Things Forum Keynote

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller’s car hacking research put a crunching reality on Internet of Things security, moving it beyond almost clichéd discussions of smart refrigerators leaking inconsequential data, to hackers remotely manipulating car brakes. But Furby hacking matter...

Turla APT Group Abusing Satellite Internet Links

Poorly secured satellite-based Internet links are being abused by nation-state hackers, most notably by the Turla APT group, to hide command-and-control operations, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today. Active for close to a decade, Turla’s activities were exposed last year; the Russian-speaki...

Sn1per - Automated Pentest Recon Scanner

Sn1per is an automated scanner that can be used during a penetration test to enumerate and scan for vulnerabilities. Features Automatically collects basic recon ie. whois, ping, DNS, etc. Automatically launches Google hacking queries against a target domain Automatically enumerates open ports...

Contactless Fingerprint Scanner That Can Capture Your Prints from Meters Away

Until today, there existed such Fingerprint Biometric Readers that required your touch to authenticate yourself as an authorized person. However, the latest research shows that the future of fingerprint scanners lies in a "no-touch" activity by an individual for gaining access. Recently, NIST...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part I

If you believe that your organization is not at real risk of cyber attack, then you are absolutely wrong. Incidents of massive data breaches, advanced cyber attacks coming from China, groups like Syrian Electronic Army, Hacking Point of Sale machines at retailers such as Target have splashed acro...

These Top 7 Brutal Cyber Attacks Prove 'No One is Immune to Hacking' — Part II

In Part I of this two-part series from The Hacker News, the First Four list of Top Brutal Cyber Attacks shows that whoever you are, Security can never be perfect. As attackers employ innovative hacking techniques and zero-day exploits, the demand for increased threat protection grows. In this...

Caution! Hackers Can Easily Hijack Popular Baby Monitors to Watch Your Kids

Several video baby monitors from six different manufacturers were under scrutiny for in-depth security testing, and the outcome was negative. Yes, they lacked in serving basic security through their devices. At the High Technology Crime Investigation Association HTCIA conference on September 2,...

MS15-078 Microsoft Windows Font Driver Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a pool based buffer overflow in the atmfd.dll driver when parsing a malformed font. The vulnerability was exploited by the hacking team and disclosed in the July data leak. This module has been tested successfully on vulnerable builds of Windows 8.1 x64. This module requires...

FBI Warns Businesses of Email Scams, Wire Fraud

U.S. businesses are losing millions in fraudulent wire transfers that have their root in email compromises of accounts belonging to top executives. An FBI advisory issued Thursday warns businesses that regularly conduct wire transfer payments to be vigilant about potential email account...

Samsung smart Refrigerator presence of the vulnerability can lead to Gmail credentials theft-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The recent Internet of things and new security issues, this time security researchers from the Samsung smart fridge to extract the Gmail authentication information. The middleman steal authentication At the recent DEFCON hacking conference, hackers have made a through the middle attack to steal t...

Here’s the List of Top 10 Big Tech Companies where Ashley Madison is very Popular

Cheaters Exposed! Would it be the Impact Team or a woman ex-employee who worked for Avid Life Media as per John McAfee claims, the hackers that breached the cheater's dating website Ashley Madison has made the world aware of a lot of unfaithful people. The data crunching firm Dadaviz has analysed...

Girl Hacker Devises a 3D Printed High-Heeled Shoes with Hacking Tools Inside

Next time when you came across a lady wearing high heels, you need to Watch her steps, and yours too. What if a computer hacker with stunning good look and charm, especially a girl, walk around you? This is the only reason why a young woman hacker going under the name SexyCyborg could turn out so...

Geotweet - Social engineering tool for human hacking

Another way to use Twitter and instagram. Geotweet is an osint application that allows you to track tweets and instagram and trace geographical locations and then export to google maps. Allows you to search on tags, world zones and user info and timeline. Requirements Python 2.7 PyQt4, tweepy,...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Black Hat, Android Security, and the Oracle Debacle

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the news from Black Hat, car hacking, the Mary Ann Davidson blog post, and the Android security mess. Download: digitalunderground216.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Lenovo Caught Using Rootkit to Secretly Install Unremovable Software

Two years ago Chinese firm Lenovo got banned from supplying equipment for networks of the intelligence and defense services various countries due to hacking and spying concerns. Earlier this year, Lenovo was caught red-handed for selling laptops pre-installed with Superfish malware. One of the mo...

Huge Flash Update Patches More Than 30 Vulnerabilities

Adobe has released a massive update for Flash, the application that has become the Internet’s problem child. The update contains patches for more than 30 vulnerabilities in Flash on Windows, OS X, and Linux. Adobe pushed out the fixes on Tuesday afternoon, the latest in a long series of fixes for...

Kali Linux 2.0 Released — Download Most Powerful Penetration Testing Platform

Offensive Security, the creators of Swiss army knife for Security researchers, Penetration testers and Hackers have finally released the much awaited and most powerful version of Kali Linux 2.0. Kali Linux 2.0 Codename ‘Kali Sana’, an open-source penetration testing platform brings hundreds of...

Darkhotel APT Latest to Use Hacking Team Zero Day

The fallout from the HackingTeam data dump shows no signs of abating. Since the controversial surveillance software maker was hacked and 400 Gb of its data posted online in early July, a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits were publicly leaked and continue to find their way into the...

RollJam — $30 Device That Unlocks Almost Any Car And Garage Door

We have talked a lot about car hacking. Recently researchers even demonstrated how hackers can remotely hijack Jeep Cherokee to control its steering, brakes and transmission. Now, researchers have discovered another type of car hack that can be used to unlock almost every car or garage door. You...