Hacking Team Flash Zero-Day Linked to Cyber Attacks on South Korea and Japan

The corporate data leaked in the recent cyber attack on the infamous surveillance software firm Hacking Team has revealed that the Adobe Flash zero-day CVE-2015-5119 exploit has already been added to several exploit kits. Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered evidences of the Adobe...

Venom Vulnerability Exposes Most Data Centers to Cyber Attacks

Just after a new security vulnerability surfaced Wednesday, many tech outlets started comparing it with HeartBleed, the serious security glitch uncovered last year that rendered communications with many well-known web services insecure, potentially exposing Millions of plain-text passwords. But...

Hackers Could Crash Trains by Hacking Rail Traffic System

After reaching heights in cyber attacks by targeting SCADA systems, hackers are looking forward to crash trains. It isn't only assumptions; it could actually happen in real. A new hi-tech railway signalling system being tested in the United Kingdom could potentially be hacked by cyber criminals t...

IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Focused on Law Enforcement and Public Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that law enforcement personnel and public officials may be at an increased risk of cyber attacks. Doxing—the act of gathering and publishing individuals’ personal information without permission—has been observed. Hacking...

Record-breaking 1Tbps Speed achieved Over 5G Mobile Connection

New Generations usually bring new base technologies, more network capacity for more data per user, and high speed Internet service, for which Internet service providers usually advertise. However, it is believed that the fifth generation 5G Technology of mobile network will be beyond our thoughts...

AppUse - Android Pentest Platform Unified Standalone Environment

AppUse Virtual Machine, developed by AppSec Labs, is a unique and free system, a platform for mobile application security testing in the android environment, and it includes unique custom-made tools. Faster & More Powerful The system is a blessing to security teams, who from now on can easily...

Army Research Lab Releases Dshell Forensics Framework

The U.S. Army has released to open source an internal forensics analysis framework that the Army Research Lab has been using for some time. The framework, known as Dshell, is a Python tool that runs on Linux and its designed to help analysts investigate compromises within their environments. The...

Hacking Facebook Accounts Using Android 'Same Origin Policy' Vulnerability

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the default web browser of the Android OS lower than 4.4 running on a large number of Android devices that allows an attacker to bypass the Same Origin Policy SOP. The Android Same Origin Policy SOP vulnerability CVE-2014-6041 was first...

Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for 'Pirate Bay' Takedown

An online "hacktivist" group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymo...

Law Firm - Forensics Services

As cyber threats and attacks have increased year over year, Coalfire has seen a drastic increased need for support to law firms in cybersecurity cases. Attacks and threats vary so often, many law firms lack the skills required to properly evaluate cyber-attacks involving their clients. As such la...

Masque Attack — New iOS Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Replace Apps with Malware

Android have been a long time target for cyber criminals, but now it seems that they have turned their way towards iOS devices. Apple always says that hacking their devices is too difficult for cyber crooks, but a single app has made it possible for anyone to hack an iPhone. A security flaw in...

APT28 — State Sponsored Russian Hacker Group

Nearly a decade-long cyber espionage group that targeted a variety of Eastern European governments and security-related organizations including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO has been exposed by a security research firm. The US intelligence firm FireEye released its latest Advanced...

Thousands of High-Risk Vulnerabilities Found in NOAA Satellite System

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are loaded with several critical vulnerabilities that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. According to the findings of an audit recently conducted by the Department of Commerce’s Office of the...

NOAA, Satellite Data, Riddled with Vulnerabilities

The informational systems that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA run are fraught with vulnerabilities and what the U.S. Department of Commerce deems “significant security deficiencies” that could leave it vulnerable to cyber attacks. That’s according to the findings of an...

Deep Panda China Hackers Compromise Security Think Tanks

Computers at a number of unnamed national security think tanks were compromised by hackers linked to China trying to glean intelligence on U.S. policy in Iraq as civil unrest escalates in the Middle East country. The attacks mark a shift in tactics by this particular group, which generally keeps...

20-years-old Alleged "NullCrew" Hacker Arrested by the FBI

The FBI officers have arrested a 20-year-old Tennessee man and charged with federal computer hacking for allegedly conspiring to launch cyber attacks on five organizations in 2013, including two universities and three companies in the US and Canada, federal law enforcement officials announced...

Retailers Form ISAC to Share Threat Data

From the beginning of the cybercrime epidemic, retailers have been among the most frequent targets, and the last year has seen some of the larger compromises in history. The Target data breach is at the top of that list, involving more than 100 million customers, and after years of increasingly...

Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Devices Vulnerable to Hackers

The growing threat of cyber-attacks and network hacking has reached the satellite-space sector, posing a growing challenge to the satellite operators. Because the satellite system are the critical components for the Nation to a modern military, they have become an attractive target of cyber...

APT Groups Return - Chinese Hackers Resume Cyber Espionage Operations

Year back, one of the largest “Advanced Persistent Threat” APT hacking groups received widespread attention from the media and from the U.S. government. APT Groups are China’s cyber espionage units and they won’t stop their espionage operation, despite being exposed last year. Yes, APT hacking...

Philips Smart TVs vulnerable to Screen Hijack and Cookie Theft

Previous articles on The Hacker News have highlighted that How Internet of Things IoT opens your home to cyber threats. Recently the security researchers from vulnerability research firm ReVuln published a video demonstration shows that Philips Smart TV is prone to cyber attacks by hackers...