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Another Cyber attack Hit Regions Bank and SunTrust
As warned by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters They launched another distributed denial-of-service DDOS attack against the website of Regions Financial Corp regions.com and SunTrust. The computer attacks burden the bank websites with heavy traffic volume that causes slow service for the sites o...
Capital One Latest Victim in Series of Attacks on U.S. Banks
Capital One Financial Corp. told Bloomberg’s Businessweek that its online banking services had been temporarily disabled on Tuesday but that no customer and account information was ever at risk. The ‘Mrt. Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters’ took credit for the attack on the text-sharing site...
Anonymous threatened Estonian government with a possible cyber attack
Anonymous Hackers AnonSwedenOp posted a video on YouTube on October 8 where it threatened the Estonian government with a possible cyber attack. "Estonian government had sacrificed its own people instead of helping its own people, Estonian government has channelled money to helping Greece that is...
Capital One Financial Corp latest victim of Cyber Attack
Capital One Financial Corp. said it's the latest target in a new round of coordinated cyber attacks aimed at disrupting the websites of major U.S. banks, and SunTrust Banks Inc. and Regions Financial Corp. said they expect to be next. The so-called "Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters" posted a...
Hacker group RedHack faces up to 24 years in prison for terrorist crimes
As part of an investigation launched by Başsavcıvekilliği in Ankara on March 20 arrested seven people, including college students. 13 of the indictment prepared by the prosecutor's office in Ankara Was adopted by the High Criminal Court. Court has accepted an indictment against RedHack, a Turkish...
Hackers disrupt Interpol website against Anti-Islam film
A hacker group "Kosova Hacker's Security" based in the Middle East take down Interpol website yesterday. According to claim of Hackers, they are doing this cyber attack on a law enforcement agency to show their protest against the controversial Anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims. According to...
5 Major Japanese universities websites hacked
A group of hackers identifying itself as "Ghost Shell" said that he has leaked some 120,000 pieces of information from 100 universities across the globe including Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. Today reports says that Servers at the University of Tokyo and four other major...
Cyber attack on Iran's Internet system Disrupts Iran Internet
IRAN state official has said that Cyber attackers have targeted Iranian infrastructure and communications companies, disrupting the Internet across the country. "Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country's infrastructure and communications companies which has forced us to limit the...
Universal Man in the Browser Attacks
Researchers have discovered a new type of Man-in-the-Browser MItB attack that is Website independent, and does not target specific Websites, but instead collects data submitted to all sites. Trusteer have discovered a new Man in the Browser MitB scam that can collects data submitted to all websit...
Sandia Lab's MegaDroid Project Builds Out Massive Android Test Platform
It might sound like a security researcher’s worst nightmare to string together 300,000 virtual instances of the Android OS, but for scientists at Sandia National Laboratories, it’s just another day. The Department of Energy-sponsored national security-focused laboratory released the MegaDroid...
Swedish authorities raid on PRQ prompts new cyber attack from Anonymous
Computer hackers claiming to be from the Anonymous network took over the official website of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube - allegedly made on...
Chinese hackers attack on White House computers
The White House acknowledged Monday that one of its computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said there was no breach of any classified systems and no indication any data was lost. Including systems used by the military for nuclear commands were breached by Chinese hackers. A conservative...
Bank of America Website under Cyber Attack from Islamic Hackers
Bank of America's website experienced periodic outages Tuesday due to cyber attacks launched in retaliation for "Innocence of Muslims," the amateurish film whose mocking portrait of the Prophet Muhammad has incited deadly riots throughout the Middle East. "Cyber fighters of Izz ad-din Al qassam"...
Research Paints Shamoon Creators as 'Skillful Amateurs'
Despite seemingly endless pontification, it’s still too early to definitively say whether there’s a connection between the Shamoon malware and recent attacks on Middle Eastern oil firms, yet some of the attackers’ intentions may be getting clearer. Research suggests the creators behind the recent...
Florida Digital Publisher Says It's the Source of Apple UDID Leak
The chief executive of a Florida-based digital publisher said Monday he believes his company is the source of a data leak of a million Apple unique device IDs — not the FBI as a hacktivist group claimed. “A little more than a week ago, BlueToad was the victim of a criminal cyber attack, which...
Sony Mobile website hacked by NullCrew
Another Cyber attack on Sony this year, Hacking group called "NullCrew" hack into one of the biggest site of Sony mobile website www.sonymobile.com and leak complete database on Internet. Nullcrew releasing their hack dumps from their official twitter account @OfficialNull. The dump of database...
Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack
Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...
Fake Syria News Posted from Hacked Reuters blog and Twitter account
On Friday, Reuters blog platform was hacked with false posts and on Saturday, the @ReutersTech account on Twitter was taken over and renamed @TechMe. False tweets were sent before it was taken down. The first attack came Friday after Syrian hackers loyal to President Bashar al-Assad allegedly...
Iranian nuclear program hit by AC/DC virus
A scientist working at the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran said computer systems have been hit by a cyber-attack which forced them to play AC/DC's Thunderstruck at full volume in the middle of the night. The attack came to light after a researcher at security firm F-Secure received a string of...
Anonymous Hackers not responsible for attack on Dahabshiil
There was an incident that a group claiming to be the cyber hacker or hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened Dahabshiil an international funds transfer company and the leading bank in Somalia, but the international funds transfer company based in the Middle East, says Anonymous was not...