Hackers Gamifies DDoS Attacks With Collaborative Platform

A Turkish hacking crew is luring participants to join its DDoS platform to compete with peers to earn redeemable points that are exchangeable for hacking tools and click-fraud software. The goal, security researchers say, is to “gamify” DDoS attacks in order to attract a critical mass of hackers...

Ex-NSA Contractor Stole 50 TB of Classified Data; Includes Top-Secret Hacking Tools

Almost two months ago, the FBI quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for stealing an enormous number of top secret documents from the intelligence agency. Now, according to a court document filed Thursday, the FBI seized at least 50 terabytes of data from 51-year-old Martin tha...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools Were 'Mistakenly' Left By An Agent On A Remote Server

If you are a hacker, you might have enjoyed the NSA's private zero-day exploits, malware and hacking tools that were leaked last month. But the question is: How these hacking tools ended up into the hands of hackers? It has been found that the NSA itself was not directly hacked, but a former NSA...

The NSA Hack — What, When, Where, How, Who & Why?

You might have heard about the recent ongoing drama of NSA hack that has sparked a larger debate on the Internet concerning abilities of US intelligence agencies as well as their own security. Saturday morning the news broke that a mysterious group of hackers calling themselves "The Shadow Broker...

NSA's Hacking Group Hacked! Bunch of Private Hacking Tools Leaked Online

It seems like the NSA has been HACKED! Update: The NSA Hack — What, When, Where, How, Who & Why? Explained Here. An unknown hacker or a group of hackers just claimed to have hacked into "Equation Group" -- a cyber-attack group allegedly associated with the United States intelligence organization...

Lalin - Hackpack & Kali Linux Tools

Lalin is a remake of Lazykali by bradfreda with fixed bugs , added new features and uptodate tools . It's compatible with the latest release of Kali Rolling Changelog Lalin gets updated weekly with new features, improvements and bugfixes. Be sure to check out the Changelog How it works Extract Th...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

Flash is too dangerous, the report said the hack attack front 1 0 vulnerabilities Flash representing 8-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Hacking tools the use of Pre 1 0 vulnerabilities in Flash accounted for 8 According to technology news site Network World reports that cyber Threat Intelligence research firm, Recorded Future issued the latest report shows that in the hacking toolEKthe use of the top 1 0 largest vulnerability,...

BackBox Linux 4.4 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

BackBox Linux 4.3 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode. Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals...

BackBox Linux 4.2 - Ubuntu-based Linux Distribution Penetration Test and Security Assessment

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu. It has been developed to perform penetration tests and security assessments. Designed to be fast, easy to use and provide a minimal yet complete desktop environment, thanks to its own software repositories, always being updated to the latest stable...

Miniduke APT Campaigh Returns with New Targets, Hacking Tools

The Miniduke advanced persistent threat APT campaign uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab and CrySys Lab in February 2013 is back after a year-long hiatus in which attacks abated almost entirely. While the initial Miniduke operations primarily targeted government organizations in Europe, thi...

Grams - First Search Engine for Underground Black Markets

We often talk about Underground communities, illegal websites or black markets, but as they are ‘Underground’ in nature i.e. Hidden websites running under Onion Network, many of us don't know how to reach the one we are searching for and if hopefully found, then its difficult to figure out a...

Underground Marketplace 'Utopia' Seized by Dutch Police, 5 suspects arrested

After Silk Road, another underground online marketplace 'Utopia' has been seized by Dutch National Police, where users could buy illegal drugs and guns for home delivery. The police started their investigation under Codename 'Operation Commodore' in 2013, and finally seized Utopia's Germany-based...

KALI Linux 1.0.6 released; officially added Emergency Self Destruct feature

A few days back the developers of one of the most advance open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' announced that they were planning to include "emergency self-destruction of LUKS".They patched a utility called cryptsetup, which introduces a self destruction featur...

Chinese APT Espionage campaign, dubbed 'Icefog' targeted Military contractors and Governments

Kaspersky Lab has identified another Chinese APT campaign, dubbed 'Icefog', who targeted Governmental institutions, Military contractors, maritime / shipbuilding groups, telecom operators, industrial and high technology companies and mass media. The Hacking group behind the attack who carry out...

[BackBox Linux] Version 3.0

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and designed for performing penetration testing, incident response, computer forensics, and intelligence gathering. It uses the Xfce desktop environment, and is developed by Raffaele Forte and a small but dedicated team. This release includ...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating 2nd Birthday

One of the most awaited occasions in a year is your birthday, same way we are today celebrating 'The Hacker News' 2nd Birthday week from on 28th October-3rd November 2012. Originally founded on 1st November 2010 by Mohit Kumar, 'The Hacker News' was the very First dedicated Hacking and Security...