Here's How Hackers Could Have Spied On Your DJI Drone Account

Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today revealed details of a potential dangerous vulnerability in DJI Drone web app that could have allowed attackers access user accounts and synced sensitive information within it, including flight records, location, live video camera feed, and photos tak...

Hackers deface Saudi ‘Davos in the Desert’ site against Khashoggi’s death

By Waqas The official website of Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative ‘Davos in the Desert’ was hit by a cyber attack in which hackers defaced its homepage to protest the brutal murder of The Washington Post's journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and killings of innocent civilians in Yemen...

Virus Bulletin 2018: Saudi Dissident Spyware Attack Belies Bigger Threat

MONTREAL – This week, news broke that a well-known Saudi dissident has been targeted by the notorious Pegasus spyware – after he gained permanent citizen status in Canada. While this fits into pattern of ongoing attacks on “civil society” members i.e., journalists, social justice activists,...

Bank Servers Hacked to Trick ATMs into Spitting Out Millions in Cash

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and Treasury warning about a new ATM scheme being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra. Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace, is believed to be backed by the...

Bank Servers Hacked to Trick ATMs into Spitting Out Millions in Cash

The US-CERT has released a joint technical alert from the DHS, the FBI, and Treasury warning about a new ATM scheme being used by the prolific North Korean APT hacking group known as Hidden Cobra. Hidden Cobra, also known as Lazarus Group and Guardians of Peace, is believed to be backed by the...

Facebook hacked: Hackers steal access tokens of 50 million accounts

By Waqas Hackers exploited a vulnerability in the "View As" feature of Facebook. The social media giant Facebook has announced that it has suffered a massive cyber attack, resulting in 50 million users account impacted. In a statement, the vice president of product management at Facebook, Guy Ros...

SHEIN-Fashion Shopping Site Suffers Data Breach Affecting 6.5 Million Users

U.S. online fashion retailer SHEIN has admitted that the company has suffered a significant data breach after unknown hackers stole personally identifiable information PII of almost 6.5 million customers. Based in North Brunswick and founded in 2008, SHEIN has become one of the largest online...

Apache SpamAssassin Denial of Service Vulnerability

Apache SpamAssassin is a U.S. Apache Apache company's mail filtering program and API, can effectively prevent mail from spam harassment. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Apache SpamAssassin. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

Hackers target Newegg with “sophisticated malware”; steal credit card data

By Waqas At the moment, it is unclear how many Newegg customers have been impacted. The IT security researchers at RiskIQ and Volexity have announced that Newegg Inc., an online retailer of items including computer hardware and consumer electronics has become a victim of a cyber attack in which...

Ransomware Attack Takes Down Bristol Airport's Flight Display Screens

Bristol Airport has blamed a ransomware attack for causing a blackout of flight information screens for two days over the weekend. The airport said that the attack started Friday morning, taking out several computers over the airport network, including its in-house display screens which provide...

British Airways Website, Mobile App Breach Compromises 380k

British Airways said approximately 380,000 card payments were compromised after a security breach occurred on the company’s website and mobile app in August. According to the airline, which notified customers on Thursday, the breach compromised the personal and financial details of customers –...

U.S. Charges North Korean Spy Over WannaCry and Sony Pictures Hack

The U.S. Department of Justice announces criminal charges against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware attack and the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. According to multiple government officials cited by the NY Times who are familiar with the...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

You are not alone; The Pirate Bay is down for everyone

By Carolina The Pirate Bay is down for everyone for more than 20 hours. From the United States to India, all around the world authorities have told their Internet service providers ISPs to block each and every piracy site including The Pirate Bay but what about when these sites go down due to...

TSMC Chip Maker Blames WannaCry Malware for Production Halt

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC—the world's largest makers of semiconductors and processors—was forced to shut down several of its chip-fabrication factories over the weekend after being hit by a computer virus. Now, it turns out that the computer virus outbreak at Taiwan chipmake...

iPhone Chip Maker Firm Attacked with Computer Virus

By Uzair Amir Launch of Many New iPhone Models May be Delayed. The world’s leading semiconductors and processors’ manufacturing firm and sole supplier of Apple iPhone chipsets, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC, became the target of a cyber-attack on Friday night. Reportedly, TSMC h...

KICKICO Hacked: Cybercriminal Steals $7.7 Million from ICO Platform

Again some bad news for cryptocurrency users. KICKICO, a blockchain-based initial coin offering ICO support platform, has fallen victim to a suspected cyber attack and lost more than 70 million KICK tokens or KickCoins worth an estimated $7.7 million. In a statement released on its Medium post on...

ICO hacked: Hackers steal $8 million from KICKICO Blockchain network

By Waqas Another day, another ICO hacked. This time, KICKICO, an Initial Coin Offering ICO project that lets users conduct ICOs, pre-ICOs, crowdfunding and crowdinvesting campaigns have suffered a security breach and as a result, hackers have stolen more than 70 million KickCoins which is around...

Password-Guessing Was Used to Hack Gentoo Linux Github Account

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages. The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromis...

Why VPNFilter is like a Moonlight Maze

On May 25, the FBI issued a public service announcement asking every Internet ready American to reboot their routers. The PSA specifically warned small and home office owners that they are particularly vulnerable to “foreign cyber actors” A.K.A. spies that are using malware called VPNFilter to...