Russian Hacker Behind LinkedIn Breach also Charged with Hacking Dropbox and Formspring

The alleged Russian hacker, who was arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police, was believed to be the one responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, according to a statement released by LinkedIn. Now, United States authorities have officially indicted Yevgeniy...

Breaking — Russian Hacker Responsible for LinkedIn Data Breach Arrested by FBI

The alleged Russian hacker arrested by the FBI in collaboration with the Czech police is none other than the hacker who was allegedly responsible for massive 2012 data breach at LinkedIn, which affected nearly 117 Million user accounts. Yevgeniy N, 29-year-old Russian hacker was arrested in Pragu...

Russian Hacker who was wanted by FBI arrested in Prague

UPDATE — It Turns out that the Russian Hacker arrested by the FBI is responsible for 2012 LinkedIn Data Breach. Read latest update here Czech police, in cooperation with the FBI, has arrested a Russian citizen in Prague suspected of participating in conducting cyber-attacks against the United...

Sofacy APT Targeting OS X Machines with Komplex Trojan

The prolific APT gang allegedly behind the DNC hack and other targeted attacks against Western military and political targets is using a new Trojan called Komplex to infect OS X machines used in the aerospace industry. The gang, known as Sofacy, APT28, Fancy Bear, Sednit and Pawn Storm, is...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Were 'Mistakenly' Left By An Agent On A Remote Server

If you are a hacker, you might have enjoyed the NSA's private zero-day exploits, malware and hacking tools that were leaked last month. But the question is: How these hacking tools ended up into the hands of hackers? It has been found that the NSA itself was not directly hacked, but a former NSA...

Lurk Criminal Gang Also Behind Angler Exploit Kit

The June arrest of a Russian cybercrime gang responsible for the Lurk Trojan also put to rest the infamous Angler Exploit Kit. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a detailed report on the Lurk takedown, confirming at the same time the connection between the Lurk gang and Angler. Activity...

Two US State Election Systems Hacked to Steal Voter Databases — FBI Warns

A group of unknown hackers or an individual hacker may have breached voter registration databases for election systems in at least two US states, according to the FBI, who found evidence during an investigation this month. Although any intrusion in the state voting system has not been reported, t...

Russian Lawmaker's Son Convicted of Stealing 2.9 Million Credit Card Numbers

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker has been found guilty in the United States of running a hacking scheme that stole and sold 2.9 million US credit card numbers using Point-of-Sale POS malware, costing financial institutions more than $169 Million. Roman Seleznev, 32, the son of Russian...

Leaked cisco ASA the exploit can be applied to the new cisco version, on-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

! 2 0 1 6 years 8 on 1 5 December, one called“Shadow Brokers”the shadow broker-hacking group claims to Own the invasion with the NSA related to the Equation Group equation organization of a computer system, and successfully steal a lot of confidential information and hacker tools. Subsequently,...

Guccifer 2.0 Leaks Personal Info of Nearly 200 Congressional Democrats

The hacker, who recently claimed responsibility for the high-profile hack of Democratic National Committee DNC, has now taken credit for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC as well. To prove his claims, the hacker, going by the moniker Guccifer 2.0, dumped on Friday...

Data Breach — Oracle's Micros Payment Systems Hacked

The risks associated with data breaches continue to grow, impacting a variety of industries, tech firms, and social networking platforms. In the past few months, over 1 Billion credentials were dumped online as a result of mega breaches in popular social networks. Now, Oracle is the latest in the...

Hillary Clinton's Presidential Campaign also Hacked in Attack on Democratic Party

There's a lot more to come from the DNC Hack. The Associated Press confirmed yesterday that the computer systems used by Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were hacked as part of the recent Democratic National Convention DNC hack. Last week's email dump containing almost 20,000 emails from t...

Trump Comments Straddle Line of Soliciting Computer Crime

Donald Trump may have left himself an out today when he urged Russian hackers to find 30,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton from her private server. “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Trump said during a press conference in Florida. “I...

Attributing Advanced Attacks Remains Challenge For Researchers

Amid the connections being made between the Russian government and the attack on the Democratic National Committee DNC, researchers on Tuesday reminded us of the challenges security experts have in correctly attributing advanced attacks. In a wide-ranging Reddit AMA, members of Kaspersky Lab’s...

Nuclear, Angler Exploit Kit Activity Has Disappeared

Criminal hackers are fickle about their attack vectors. You need to look no further for evidence of this than their constant migration from one exploit kit to another. And while there is an expansive menu of exploit kits, attackers do seem to congregate around a precious few. Researchers who stud...

Inside the xDedic Hacked Server Marketplace

An underground market peddling hacked servers was a unique find, even for a seasoned researcher such as Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade of Kaspersky Lab. But there it was, xDedic.biz selling access to tens of thousands of servers for pennies on the dollar. A Russian-speaking hacker group was...

DNC Hacked, Research on Trump Stolen

Two separate APT groups believed to have ties to the Russian government have been fingered in attacks against the Democratic National Committee resulting in the theft of research done by the DNC on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Researchers at Crowdstrike, called in to investigate b...

Twitter Forces Password Reset on Some Exposed Accounts

Twitter has forced a password reset on an unnamed number of accounts exposed this week in a dump of 32.8 million account names and credentials. A Russian hacker known as Tessa88 has been involved in a number of recent password disclosures with Twitter being the most recent. He shared the cache of...

BlackShades Strain of Ransomware Teases Researchers

Researchers who dig deep through the code of one of the latest strains of ransomware might be surprised and even a little irked at what they find. Hidden inside some of those strings of code are taunts aimed at them. According to Lawrence Abrams who runs BleepingComputer.com, the malware,...

Russia arrests 50 hackers who stole $25 million from Banks

Russian authorities have arrested a gang of 50 hackers suspected of stealing more than 1.7 Billion Rubles over US$25 Million from banks and other financial institutions in the country since 2011. The same criminal gang had tried to steal a further 2.273 Billion Roubles by issuing false payment...