Israeli Electric Authority Attacked, Potential Ransomware

Earlier this week Israel’s Electric Authority mitigated what officials there are calling a “severe cyber attack.” The Electric Authority is in charge of regulating and overseeing the distribution of electricity in Israel. The State of Israel’s National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources...

Israeli Power Grid Authority Suffers Massive Cyber Attack

The country which built a Digital Iron Dome, Israel had undergone one of the largest serious cyber attack this year. This time, the name of Israel is being popped up in the current headlines is for the massive cyber attack which triggered against the Nation's Electrical Power Grid Authority's...

Hey ISIS! Check Out How 'Idiot' Anonymous Hackers Can Disrupt your Online Propaganda

The online Hacktivist group Anonymous declared War against the Islamic State militant group ISIS that claimed responsibility for the horrific terrorist attacks that rocked Paris last week. In response to the Anonymous’ warning of launching their "biggest operation ever" against the terrorist grou...

15-year-old Boy Arrested in connection with TalkTalk Cyber Attack

The arrest is the first major outcome since TalkTalk – the biggest phone and broadband provider in the UK with more than 4 Million customers – had suffered a serious data breach. The Police Service of Northern Ireland PSNI and the investigating officers from the Metropolitan police's cyber crime...

Samsung LoopPay Hacked, but 'Samsung Pay' is Safe

Samsung has been surrounded by a lot of controversies since the past few years, but that has not influenced its productivity. But this report has raised a few eyebrows... Samsung's mobile payment system company, LoopPay, was hacked back in March this year, just a month after Samsung bought it to...

How A Drone Can Infiltrate Your Network by Hovering Outside the Building

Imagine you are sitting in your office and working on something confidential. Once you are done, you send a command to print that document. But, What if... ...the whole confidential document send to a hacker attacking from the air? Sounds pity but may be your Boss fires you immediately if that...

Warning! Popular Apple Store Apps Infected with Data-Theft Malware

Unlike Google Play Store, Apple App Store is well known for not allowing any malformed apps to enter its Apple ecosystem because of its tight security checks. But, not anymore. Hundreds of malicious apps managed to get hosted on Apple's official App store and subsequently downloaded by several...

ASERT Threat Intelligence Report 2015-05 PlugX Threat Activity in Myanmar-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0x01 summary Myanmar is currently one engaged in important political activity of the country. 2 0 1 1 years of democratic reform is to help the government create a conducive to attract investors to the atmosphere. The country is rich in resources, has a variety of Natural Resources and stable...

After 5 Years, Now Google Ready to Comply with China's Censorship Laws for Business

Google is planning to introduce a trimmed down special version of Google Play Store and Android Wear to The Mainland China. But wait, if I’m not wrong… Google had ended ties with China five years ago. Then what made Google to re-establish itself in China once again? Business?? Recent reports by...

UPnP exposure Filet-O-Firewall vulnerabilities, millions of home routers at risk of attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

UPnP exposure security vulnerability Filet-O-Firewall, the millions of home network devices in the network attack risk. Cause the UPnP vulnerability the main reason is that its lack of adequate authentication mechanisms. myhack58 Wikipedia: UPnP UPnP is a wide variety of smart devices, wireless...

FBI’s Cyber Task Force Identifies Stealthy FF-RATs used in Cyber Attack

In both April and June this year, a series of cyber attacks was conducted against the United States Office of Personnel Management OPM. These attacks resulted in 21 million current and former Federal government employees’ information being stolen. After months of investigation, the FBI’s Cyber Ta...

iOS Sandbox Vulnerability Puts Enterprise Data at Risk

"Change is the only constant thing," as it is known could be now modified as "Change is the only constant thing," where the means Terms and conditions apply! A change Mobile Device Management solutions-MDM, Bring Your Own Device-BYOD was brought to the organizations, which later became necessitie...

Heze city science and technology information network suffered HackingTeam leakage of 0day vulnerabilities attack-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

For the attacker, the HackingTeam data leak certainly gives them a“spring”. Attackers in the data leak the next day it will be baked 0day vulnerabilities added to the mainstream exploit kits. Copy the leaked 0day attack HackingTeam leakage of various 0day information can be easily reused. In...

Hacking Team: We're Victim of a Criminal Cyber Attack

Hacking Team, the Italy-based spyware company that sells spying software to law enforcement agencies worldwide, says the company has always operated with the law and regulation in an ethical manner. However, there was only one Violation of Law in this entire event, and that is – "the massive cybe...

Hacking Team Plans to Continue Operations

UPDATE–It has been absolutely brutal week for Hacking Team. All of the company’s documents, internal communications, emails with customers, and invoices have been published, including its dealings with oppressive regimes and customers in sanctioned countries. But even with all that, company...

OPM Temporarily Shuts Down Background Check App to Fix Security Hole

The web gateway used to render materials for Federal Background Investigations for employees and contractors has been shut down for several weeks after a vulnerability was detected, the Office of Personnel Management announced. The agency announced the shut down citing the discovery of a...

A large number of Cisco security devices was traced to the presence of a default SSH key-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Cisco revealed that a large number of Cisco security devices was traced to the presence of a default SSH key, an attacker can use this vulnerability to control the device. The scope of the impact Cisco's security experts found that a lot of Cisco security devices in the presence of a default SS...

Polish Planes Grounded After Alleged Airline Hack

Roughly 1,400 passengers were temporarily stranded at Warsaw’s Frederic Chopin airport over the weekend after hackers were purportedly able to modify an entire airline’s flight plans via a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. On Sunday someone was able to infiltrate the computer system of t...

Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials?

The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach. Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management OPM and steal records of Millions of...

St. Louis Federal Reserve Falls Victim to DNS Hijack

The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank confirmed this week that it fell victim to a DNS hijack last month. The attack may have redirected users to bogus webpages and for a period of time exposed customers to phishing, malware and other attacks that potentially could have duped users into giving away...