17-Year-Old Hanged Himself After Receiving Police Ransomware Threat Email

Ransomware malware threat has forced somebody for the terrible suicide and once again has marked its history by somebody’s blood. Sad, but it’s True! Joseph Edwards, a 17-year-old schoolboy from Windsor, Berkshire, hanged himself after receiving a bogus email appeared to be from police claiming...

IIS discovered remote exploit code-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

IIS discovered remote exploit code. Yesterday Microsoft headquarters found to be APT hack Microsoft call engineer for overnight analysis, according to Microsoft trustworthy computing General Manager John revealed, a hacker may be by means of a Microsoft IIS server scored,the analysis may use...

Cyber Attack On 'Code Spaces' Puts Hosting Service Out of Business

Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform used by different organizations for project management and development needs, was forced to shut down operations after an attacker compromised its internal system and deleted its customer’s data and backups as well. This is really a...

Feedly and Evernote Hit by DDoS Attacks, Extortion Demands

Yesterday, the most popular RSS reader Feedly was down as a result of a large scale distributed-denial-of service DDoS attack carried by the cybercriminals to extort money. On Wednesday, the Feedly was temporarily unavailable for its users. Feedly posted details of the attack at 5:00 AM ET on its...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

Alleged Oleg Pliss iPhone Hackers Arrested in Russia

The hackers behind last month’s iPhone ransomware campaign – in which many users were asked to pay $100 to unlock their devices – may be behind bars now. A press release on the Russian Interior Ministry’s website yesterday claims two men were recently arrested for the “blocking of Apple devices t...

Basecamp Back Online After DDoS, Extortion

The project management console Basecamp is back online and its developers are in the process of restoring customers’ network access Tuesday after the service was taken down by a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack Monday. The attack started at 8:46 a.m. CST yesterday and flooded the site wi...

Meetup.com Back Online After DDoS Attacks, Extortion

Social networking site Meetup.com is finally back online today, yet officials at the site are warning it could still face future outages following a series of sustained distributed denial of service attacks DDoS over the weekend. Meetup is a social networking portal that allows individuals with...

Hacker threatens to sell data of 3.7 Million Israeli Bank Customers, demands extortion money in Bitcoin

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FBI arrested 19-Year-old Hacker Who Hacked into Miss Teen USA's Webcam

A College 19-year-old college student and Hacker from Temecula, California has been arrested for hacking the webcams of Miss Teen USA 'Cassidy Wolf' and other women to extort nude photos and videos from them...

FBI arrested 19-Year-old Hacker for Sextortion; allegedly Hacked into Miss Teen USA's Webcam

A College 19-year-old college student and Hacker from Temecula, California has been arrested for hacking the webcams of Miss Teen USA 'Cassidy Wolf' and other women to extort nude photos and videos from them. Earlier this year Cassidy Wolf received an anonymous email in which the sender claimed t...

Telephony Denial-of-Service Attacks Prompt Federal Attention

The call-center equivalent of network-based denial-of-service attacks, known as telephony denial-of-service TDoS, have targeted emergency services among other industries, enough to garner attention from the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Communications...

FBI Busts Hacker who blackmails 350 women for stripping on camera

The FBI Tuesday announced the arrest of Karen 'Gary' Kazaryan, a 27-year old man, who is said to have blackmailed more than 350 women after convincing them to strip off in front of their webcams has been arrested in the US. He was arrested in Glendale, California on Tuesday after being indicted o...

SMS Extortion Trojan Targeting Apple Machines

In yet another blow to the tenuous false sense of security among Apple users, the Russian antivirus firm Dr. Web has uncovered what it claims is a first-of-its-kind fake installer Trojan targeting Mac machines and extorting their users with SMS fraud. Trojan.SMSSend.3666 is the Mac variant within...

Australian medical centre infected with Ransomware Malware demanding $4000 to Unlock

A Gold Coast, Australian medical centre computers are infected with some ransom malware by a group of Russian hackers. The hackers encrypted the practice's patient database, demanding payment of $4000 for the files to be decrypted. "Cyber criminals based mainly throughout Eastern Europe look for...

FBI Warns of New Twist to Reveton, Citadel Malware Scams

The cybercrime group behind the Citadel malware and Reveton ransomware has upped the stakes with a new extortion technique, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center said today. Reveton scams have now co-opted the Internet Crime Complaint Center with a new fake warning to users whose computers ha...

IAEA Server Breached, Scientists' Email Addresses Spilled

The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed to Reuters that one of its decommissioned servers had been accessed and had data stolen from it. The admission from the United Nations’ nuclear regulatory arm came in response to the publication of some 170 email addresses, apparently belonging...

Ransomware Scams Netting Criminals Up To $33,000 a Day

Ransomware pays. A lot. These extortion scams, in which infected computers are essentially locked down by malware and electronic payment is demanded for a supposed cure, can net the criminal behind the scam as much as $33,000 per day. Symantec studied 16 variants of independently developed...

Amanda Todd blackmailer Kody Maxson outed another pedophile blackmailer

The hacker group Anonymous claims that Maxson is the man who drove Amanda Todd to her death last week, but the Canada native says it wasn't him and that he was a friend to the teen. Alleged Amanda Todd blackmailer Kody Maxson outed a second pedophile blackmailer, known as Viper. Maxson appeared i...

First Irish language Ransomware Malware demanding €100 for unlock

A new Ransomware Malware dubbed Gaeilge locks up an infected computer and attempts to extort €100 from the user for an unlock code. The demand for cash reportedly appeared in poorly written Gaelic, and the software nastie was spotted on a computer in County Donegal, Ireland. Gaeilge tell computer...