Two US Citizens Charged for Hacking into DEA Portal in 2022

By Deeba Ahmed Both suspects, Sagar Steven Singh and Nicholas Ceraolo, were reportedly members of a notorious cybercrime group, ViLE. Two… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Two US Citizens Charged for Hacking into DEA Portal in 2022...

BYTES can be used to increase points by staking them immediately before withdrawing them

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact When staking BYTES, users don't need to lock them for any specific time. BYTES are locked in a Citizen, and they are withdrawn together with the Citizen. Users can stake all the BYTES they own before withdrawing the citizen, increasing their points in th...

Hackers Using New Version of FurBall Android Malware to Spy on Iranian Citizens

The Iranian threat actor known as Domestic Kitten has been attributed to a new mobile campaign that masquerades as a translation app to distribute an updated variant of an Android malware known as FurBall. "Since June 2021, it has been distributed as a translation app via a copycat of an Iranian...

Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens

By Waqas According to the Ukraine Security Service SSU, the hackers were selling the hacked accounts to "Russian propagandists" through the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ukraine Busts Pro-Russia Hackers Who Stole 30M Accounts of EU Citizens...

Human Error Blamed for Leak of 1 Billion Records of Chinese Citizens

A prominent Chinese tech CEO has cited human error as the likely reason hackers got their hands on the personal data of 1 billion people in China from a Shanghai police database and then put some of it up for sale on illicit online markets. A government developer wrote a blog post on the China...

citizensadvicebroxbourne.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-2665650

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers

Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea DPRK are posing as "non-DPRK nationals" in hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime's malicious cyber intrusions. That's according to a joint advisory from the U.S...

MSHTML Flaw Exploited to Attack Russian Dissidents

A spearphishing campaign targeting Russian citizens and government entities that are not aligned with the actions of the Russian government is the latest in numerous threats that have emerged since Russia invaded the Ukraine in February. Researchers from MalwareBytes identified a campaign last we...

Anonymous sent 7 million texts to Russians plus hacked 400 of their security cams

By Waqas Anonymous and its affiliate groups have sent 7 million text messages to Russian citizens about the war in… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous sent 7 million texts to Russians plus hacked 400 of their security cams...

Actions Akamai Is Taking on Russia and Ukraine

Akamai stands with the people of Ukraine. As the assault on Ukraine continues, we are inspired by the courageous citizens defending their sovereignty...

Ghana govt agency exposed 700k citizens’ data in a database mess up

By Deeba Ahmed Ghana’s National Service Secretariate - NSS - exposed 55GB worth of citizens' data when an AWS S3 bucket used by the Secretariate suffered misconfiguration. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ghana govt agency exposed 700k citizens data in a database mess up...

UPDATE: EU’s Green Pass Vaccination ID Private Key Leaked or Forge

As of Thursday morning Eastern time, Adolf Hitler and Mickey Mouse could still validate their digital Covid passes, SpongeBob Squarepants was out of luck, and the European Union was investigating a leak of the private key used to sign the EU’s Green Pass vaccine passports. Two days earlier, on...

Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users’ data

By Waqas The Quickfox VPN is mainly used by Chinese citizens living abroad who need to access Chinese websites as most of these sites are geo-restricted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese VPN app Quickfox caught exposing 1 million users data...

S3 bucket mess up exposed 182GB of senior US, Canada citizens data

By Waqas The misconfigured S3 bucket was owned by SeniorAdvisor, a consumer ratings, and reviews website. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: S3 bucket mess up exposed 182GB of senior US, Canada citizens data...

Indian call center seized over Amazon hacking scam against US citizens

By Deeba Ahmed The call center ran a fake Amazon technical support call center in South Delhi - Now, 26 of its "employees" have been arrested. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian call center seized over Amazon hacking scam against US citizens...

Man Arrested for AWS Bomb Plot

A Texas man has been charged with plotting a bombing of Amazon Web Services in a quest to allegedly “kill off the internet.” Seth Aaron Pendley was arrested in Ft. Worth after allegedly attempting to get an explosive device from an undercover FBI employee in a sting. The feds were alerted to...

Beijing Tong App has unauthorized access vulnerability

BeijingTone APP is a convenient service software specially created for Beijing citizens. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in BeijingTone APP. An attacker can use this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to user information...

India’s COVID-19 surveillance tool exposed millions of user data

By Waqas The COVID-19 surveillance tool built by the Uttar Pradesh state government has put data of approx. 8 million Indian citizens at risk. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indias COVID-19 surveillance tool exposed millions of user data...

Data Breaches Expose Vets, COVID-19 Patients

A pair of healthcare-related data breaches at high-profile government agencies has impacted tens of thousands of people. First, a cyberattack at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs VA has impacted about 46,000 veterans, exposing their financial information. And another incident, at the U.K.’s...

Personal details of 38 million+ US citizens leaked in database mess up

By Zara Khan The database belongs to a US-based market company called View Media. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Personal details of 38 million+ US citizens leaked in database mess up...