Who Is Marcus Hutchins?

In early August 2017, FBI agents in Las Vegas arrested 23-year-old British security researcher Marcus Hutchins on suspicion of authoring and/or selling "Kronos," a strain of malware designed to steal online banking credentials. Hutchins was virtually unknown to most in the security community unti...

Taringa: Over 28 Million Users' Data Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Exclusive — If you have an account on Taringa, also known as "The Latin American Reddit," your account details may have compromised in a massive data breach that leaked login details of almost all of its over 28 million users. Taringa is a popluar social network geared toward Latin American users...

Hacker Charged for Crashing Businesses Using Millions of Mirai botnet

By Waqas Daniel ‘BestBuy’ Kaye Extradited to the UK Hacker Charged for This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Charged for Crashing Businesses Using Millions of Mirai botnet...

Not all treasure is silver or gold

How Bug Bounty Programs Help Improve SaaS and Web Security By Captain Jack Sparrow, CC BY-SA 3.0, As many companies who have found themselves victims of a debilitating ransomware attack or major data breach have found out; an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The same is true for...

Instagram Suffers Data Breach! Hacker Stole Contact Info of High-Profile Users

Instagram has recently suffered a possibly serious data breach with hackers gaining access to the phone numbers and email addresses for many "high-profile" users. The 700 million-user-strong, Facebook-owned photo sharing service has currently notified all of its verified users that an unknown...

Your iPhone7 jailbreak? iOS10 reproduce the vulnerability, the no jailbreak hack said count-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In iOS10 official version released soon after, we saw many third party features on the iPhone can be achieved, the original closed Apple system more and more humanized, once with Cydia developers, announced that iOS no longer need to jailbreak, it can be said that Apple is the perennial stick wit...

August 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Mount Vesuvius” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Attacking Critical...

faker.js - Generate Massive Amounts of Fake Data

Generate massive amounts of fake data in Node.js and the browser. Demo https://cdn.rawgit.com/Marak/faker.js/master/examples/browser/index.html Hosted API Microservice http://faker.hook.io Supports all Faker API Methods Full-Featured Microservice Hosted by hook.io curl...

Blowing the Whistle on Bad Attribution

The New York Times this week published a fascinating story about a young programmer in Ukraine who'd turned himself in to the local police. The Times says the man did so after one of his software tools was identified by the U.S. government as part of the arsenal used by Russian hackers suspected ...

Hacker Sells 2FA bypass flaw in Poloniex exchange after 2 months wait

By Waqas The sold vulnerability facilitates Bypassing 2FA on Poloniex The This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Sells 2FA bypass flaw in Poloniex exchange after 2 months wait...

Oopss! HBO Itself Accidentally Leaked 'Game of Thrones' Season 7 Episode 6

HBO doesn't need hackers to leak its widely watched "Game of Thrones" episodes, as it is sufficient enough to leak them by its own. In what seems to be a terrible blunder, HBO Spain appeared to have accidentally broadcast the next episode—Episode 6—of Game of Thrones season 7 five days before its...

Hacker unlocks vehicle for family who’d lost keys months ago

By Waqas Our world is full of good and bad people and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker unlocks vehicle for family whod lost keys months ago...

Analisi dei dump di Rousseau (Movimento Cinque Stelle) - Parte I: password

Disclaimer Questo blog post e' scritto da evariste.gal0is ed Antonio Sanso. Entrambi gli autori non hanno nessuna affiliazione politica ed il post ha l'unico scopo di fornire un'analisi tecnica di parte dei dump relativa alle password. Riassunto delle puntate precedenti In data 2 agosto 2017 uno...

pydictor - A Powerful and Useful Hacker Dictionary Builder for a Brute-Force Attack

pydictor is a powerful and useful hacker dictionary builder for a brute-force attack. Why I need to use pydictor ? 1. it always can help you You can use pydictor to generate a general blast wordlist, a custom wordlist based on Web content, a social engineering wordlist, and so on. You can use the...

Tech Support Scammers Cast a Wider Net

Tech support scams may be old hat, but scammers are constantly reinventing them. The latest involves a wave of phishing emails that have proven to be a powerful tool for hackers to trick and ultimately extract money from victims. The Microsoft Malware Protection Center reported Monday it’s tracki...

August 4, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Gerald R. Ford ” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 4, 2017 - Headlines Why can't films and TV accurately portray hackers? -...

Copyfish Browser Extension Hijacked to Spew Spam

A popular free optical character recognition OCR extension for web browsers called Copyfish was hijacked by attackers who used the extension to spew spam. In a statement released Sunday by distributor A9t9 Software, it was only the Google Chrome extension that was hijacked. Other versions of...

Three Telltale Signs a Hacker Has Been in Your Account

Imperva’s latest Hacker Intelligence Initiative HII report, Beyond Takeover - Stories from a Hacked Account, was just released. With this research, we set forth to learn about the dynamics of phishing attacks from the victim’s perspective and shed some light on attacker practices. Our intent was ...

How a Citadel Trojan Developer Got Busted

A U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta last week handed a five year prison sentence to Mark Vartanyan, a Russian hacker who helped develop and sell the once infamous and widespread Citadel banking trojan. This fact has been reported by countless media outlets, but far less well known is the...

Hacker Steals $8.4 Million in Ethereum (4th Heist In A Month)

More Ethereum Stolen! An unknown hacker has just stolen nearly $8.4 Million worth of Ethereum – one of the most popular and increasingly valuable cryptocurrencies – in yet another Ethereum hack that hit Veritaseum's Initial Coin Offering ICO. This incident marks as the fourth Ethereum hack this...