An Iranian Hacking Campaign, Social Media Surveillance, and More News

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ToTok Returned to Google Play Despite ‘Spy Tool’ Claims

Mobile application ToTok has been reinstated to the Google Play app ecosystem, after it was removed last month due to claims that it was being used for government espionage. ToTok, a social app that was released in 2019 and has been downloaded by millions, gained rapid popularity in the United Ar...

Authorities lost track of suspect after WhatsApp hacking warning

By Waqas The terror suspect got away after ill-timed WhatsApp hacking warning. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities lost track of suspect after WhatsApp hacking warning...

The Army Bans TikTok

A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week's top security news...

How Iran's Hackers Might Strike Back After Soleimani's Assassination

From data-destroying wipers to industrial control system hacking, Iran has a potent arsenal of cyberattacks at its disposal...

Top 20 Most Popular Hacking Tools in 2019

As last year, this year we made a ranking with the most popular tools between January and December 2019. Topics of the tools focus on OSINT, Information Gathering, Android Hacking Tools, Automation Tools, Phishing, among others. Without going into further details, we have prepared a useful list o...

Chinese Hackers Bypassing Two-Factor Authentication

Interesting story of how a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is bypassing the RSA SecurID two-factor authentication system. How they did it remains unclear; although, the Fox-IT team has their theory. They said APT20 stole an RSA SecurID software token from a hacked system, which the Chinese...

Apple Bug bounty: Earn big backs for hacking iPhone & other products

By Waqas Hack iPhone and earn big bucks the right way. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple Bug bounty: Earn big backs for hacking iPhone & other products...

British Hacker Accused of Blackmailing healthcare Firms Extradited to U.S.

A British man suspected to be a member of 'The Dark Overlord ,' an infamous international hacking group, has finally been extradited to the United States after being held for over two years in the United Kingdom. Nathan Francis Wyatt , 39, appeared in federal court in St. Louis, Missouri, on...

ReconCobra - Complete Automated Pentest Framework For Information Gathering

ReconCobra Reconcobra is Foot printing software for Ultimate Information Gathering Kali, Parrot OS, Black Arch, Termux, Android Led TV Interface Software have 82 Options with full automation with powerful information gathering capability In-Action !https://blogger.googleuser...

Nuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case

Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they'd hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid...

A week in security (December 9 – 15)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we cautioned readers against purchasing potentially privacy-invasive, cyber-insecure smart doorbells, warned about a new credit card skimmer vulnerability embedded within hundreds of fraudulent web sites selling supposedly name-brand shoes, and looked at the newest...

GitLab Doles Out Half a Million Bucks to White Hats

GitLab has awarded a total of $565,650 in security bug bounties to 171 researchers who reported valid vulnerabilities in the past year — and has announced the winners of its latest hacking contest. GitLab, which started out as a web-based Git repository manager before moving into the DevOps...

“The Smartest Lock Ever” KeyWe is Vulnerable to Hacking

By Waqas The smart lock from KeyWe is marketed as the “smartest” lock ever and sells at $155 on Amazon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: "The Smartest Lock Ever” KeyWe is Vulnerable to Hacking...

New Zeppelin Ransomware Targeting Tech and Health Companies

A new variant of Vega ransomware family, dubbed Zeppelin, has recently been spotted in the wild targeting technology and healthcare companies across Europe, the United States, and Canada. However, if you reside in Russia or some other ex-USSR countries like Ukraine, Belorussia, and Kazakhstan,...

Latest Microsoft Update Patches New Windows 0-Day Under Active Attack

With its latest and last Patch Tuesday for 2019, Microsoft is warning billions of its users of a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild in combination with a Chrome exploit to take remote control over vulnerable computers. Microsoft's December securi...

Voltage Hacking, Big Tech's 'Green' Data Score Card, and More News

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Hacking Hardware Password Managers: passwordsFAST

TL:DR Taking three hardware password managers I used them to: Learn the basics of hardware hacking Practice disassembling Perform chipset research Understand pinouts and protocols Read data off each device The passwordFast device uses different ways to store the data on a flash chip with a...

Facebook Sued Hong Kong Firm for Hacking Users and Ad Fraud Scheme

Following its efforts to take legal action against those misusing its social media platform, Facebook has now filed a new lawsuit against a Hong Kong-based advertising company and two Chinese individuals for allegedly abusing its ad platform to distribute malware and Ad fraud. Facebook filed the...

Hacking Hardware Password Managers: Royal Vault Password Keeper

TL;DR: Taking three hardware password managers I used them to: Learn the basics of hardware hacking Practice disassembling Perform chipset research Understand pinouts and protocols Read data off each device The royal password vault boards looked to be reused from a previous hardware device with...