A brief history of video game saves and data modification

Games consoles and handhelds have always been an interesting battleground for hacking activities. The homebrew scene for using hardware in interesting ways has a long and varied history, especially where porting games to run on different platforms is concerned. Tampering with games while playing...

Exclusive – Any Mitron (Viral TikTok Clone) Profile Can Be Hacked in Seconds

Mitron means "friends" in Hindi, you have been fooled again! Mitron is not really a 'Made in India' product, and the viral app contains a highly critical, unpatched vulnerability that could allow anyone to hack into any user account without requiring interaction from the targeted users or their...

A New Free Monitoring Tool to Measure Your Dark Web Exposure

Last week, application security company ImmuniWeb released a new free tool to monitor and measure an organization's exposure on the Dark Web. To improve the decision-making process for cybersecurity professionals, the free tool crawls Dark Web marketplaces, hacking forums, and Surface Web resourc...

Winnti hacking group hits gaming firms with new backdoor malware

By Deeba Ahmed Winnti hacking group previously targeted GRAVITY gaming firm in South Korea. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Winnti hacking group hits gaming firms with new backdoor malware...

ShinyHunters Is a Hacking Group on a Data Breach Spree

In the first two weeks of May, they've hit the dark web, hawking 200 million stolen records from over a dozen companies...

Web Hacker's Weapons - A Collection Of Cool Tools Used By Web Hackers

A collection of cool tools used by Web hackers. Happy hacking , Happy bug-hunting. Weapons Type | Name | Description ---|---|--- Army-Knife/ALL | BurpSuite | the BurpSuite project Army-Knife/SCAN | jaeles | The Swiss Army knife for automated Web Application Testing Army-Knife/ALL | zaproxy | The...

Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report 2020

One of the most respected publications in cybersecurity is the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR, analyzing over 150,000 incidents and providing a comprehensive analysis covering the 32,002 incidents and 3950 breaches that meet Verizon's quality standards. I liked very much how they...

Ukrainian Police Arrest Hacker Who Tried Selling Billions of Stolen Records

The Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who made headlines in January last year by posting a massive database containing some 773 million stolen email addresses and 21 million unique plaintext passwords for sale on various underground hacking forums. In an official statement released on...

The FBI Backs Down Against Apple—Again

The agency cracked the Pensacola iPhones, but it still views Cupertino as a problem—even though it's easier to break into iPhones than it has been in years...

The US Says Chinese Hackers Went Too Far During the Covid-19 Crisis

The FBI and DHS say that Beijing's hacking “jeopardizes” the delivery of much-needed Covid-19 treatment options...

Feds Reveal Hidden Cobra's Trove of Espionage Tools

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation have exposed what they say are hacking tools used by the North Korean-sponsored APT group Hidden Cobra. The disclosure was the result of a broad government effort to combat the advanced persistent threat group, who have...

PayloadsAllTheThings

This is a collection of security-related tools and resources, including a list of useful payloads and bypass techniques for web application security and penetration testing/CTF Capture The Flag. The repository includes tools such as Pacu, an AWS exploitation framework, and Bucket Finder, a tool f...

Report: Microsoft’s GitHub Account Gets Hacked

Hackers have broken into Microsoft’s GitHub account and stolen 500 GB of data from the tech giant’s own private repositories on the developer platform, according to published reports. A group that calls itself Shiny Hunters claims it stole and then leaked the data, which did not appear to include...

InfinityBlack Dismantled After Selling Millions of Credentials

The InfinityBlack hacking group, which is responsible for selling millions of stolen credentials, has been dismantled. Polish and Swiss law-enforcement authorities, supported by Europol, arrested five individuals in Poland believed to be members of InfinityBlack, on April 29. According to Europol...

InfinityBlack hacking group dismantled; 5 hackers arrested

By Waqas Authorities have arrested 5 members of the infamous InfinityBlack hacking group known for hacking databases... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: InfinityBlack hacking group dismantled; 5 hackers arrested...

SAS@Home Virtual Summit Showcases New Threat Intel, Industry Changes

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force in-person cybersecurity event cancellations, Kaspersky is forging ahead with a virtual security summit, SAS@home. Topics on the agenda include threat intel on advanced persistent threats APTs, new vulnerability research, and topics related to a...

Amid Its Covid-19 Crisis, China Was Still Hacking Uighurs’ iPhones

Security researchers reveal a months-long, indiscriminate campaign targeting the iPhones of Chinese Muslims...

Exploit for Double Free in Whatsapp

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Zero-Day Warning: It's Possible to Hack iPhones Just by Sending Emails

Watch out Apple users! The default mailing app pre-installed on millions of iPhones and iPads has been found vulnerable to two critical flaws that attackers are exploiting in the wild, at least, from the last two years to spy on high-profile victims. The flaws could eventually let remote hackers...

Chinese Hackers Using New iPhone Hack to Spy On Uyghur Muslims

A Chinese hacking group has been found leveraging a new exploit chain in iOS devices to install a spyware implant targeting the Uyghur Muslim minority in China's autonomous region of Xinjiang. The findings, published by digital forensics firm Volexity, reveal that the exploit — named "Insomnia" —...