Sim swapping hackers charged with stealing $2.5m worth of crypto

By Uzair Amir These hackers are part of the group called "The Community." According to an announcement made by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ, six men have been charged for SIM swapping fraud that resulted in the theft of nearly $2.5 million $2,416,352 worth of cryptocurrency. The six men are...

Sn1per v7.0 - Automated Pentest Framework For Offensive Security Experts

Sn1per Community Edition is an automated scanner that can be used during a penetration test to enumerate and scan for vulnerabilities. Sn1per Professional is Xero Security's premium reporting addon for Professional Penetration Testers, Bug Bounty Researchers and Corporate Security teams to manage...

U.S. Charges 9 'SIM Swapping' Attackers For Stealing $2.5 Million

The U.S. Department of Justice today announced charges against nine individuals, 6 of which are members of a hacking group called "The Community" and other 3 are former employees of mobile phone providers who allegedly helped them steal roughly $2.5 million worth of the cryptocurrency using a...

Chinese Hackers Behind 2015 Anthem Data Breach Indicted

Two Chinese nationals have been charged in the massive 2015 data breach of health insurer Anthem that impacted more than 78 million people. Fujie Wang, 32, and another Chinese man, who remains unnamed, were allegedly part of a China-based hacking group that was behind the breach of Indiana-based...

U.S. Charges Chinese Hacker For 2015 Anthem Data Breach

The United States Justice Department today announced charges against a Chinese hacker and his hacking team member for their alleged role in the 2015 massive data breach at health insurance giant Anthem and three other unnamed American companies. Fujie Wang 王 福 杰 and another hacker named John Doe...

“There Are No Hackers, There Are Only Spies”

In December 2015, I opened a letter from the Office of Personnel Management. The OPM oversees healthcare and insurance programs, administers retirement and benefit services, and assists federal agencies in hiring new employees and providing federal investigative services for background checks. Th...

Leaked NSA Hacking Tools

In 2016, a hacker group calling itself the Shadow Brokers released a trove of 2013 NSA hacking tools and related documents. Most people believe it is a front for the Russian government. Since, then the vulnerabilities and tools have been used by both government and criminals, and put the NSA's...

Executive hacked competitor’s website to steal students meal preferences

By Ryan De Souza Top Executive at Bay Area School Lunch Provider Arrested for Hacking into Competitor’s Website to Access Students Meal Preferences. Personal rivalry and competitiveness can compel people to get involved in all sorts of bizarre activities and the latest incident is clear proof of...

Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak

By Ryan De Souza Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency NSA and exploit them to attack American private...

Chinese Hackers Used NSA Hacking Tools Before Shadow Brokers Leaked Them

In a shocking revelation, it turns out that a hacking group believed to be sponsored by Chinese intelligence had been using some of the zero-day exploits linked to the NSA's Equation Group almost a year before the mysterious Shadow Brokers group leaked them. According to a new report published by...

What Israel's Strike on Hamas Hackers Means For Cyberwar

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a building that allegedly housed an active Hamas hacking group—a potential first for cyberwar...

Putin Will Put Russia Behind an Internet Curtain

Hacking big companies, building a better voting machine, and more security news this week...

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Pre-Installed Software Flaw Exposes Most Dell Computers to Remote Hacking

If you use a Dell computer, then beware — hackers could compromise your system remotely. Bill Demirkapi, a 17-year-old independent security researcher, has discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Dell SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on most Dell computers...

Thousands of firms hit by Beapy malware using NSA hacking tools

By Ryan De Souza EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency NSA, which were stolen about two years back. The new malware...

Who’s Behind the RevCode WebMonitor RAT?

The owner of a Swedish company behind a popular remote administration tool RAT implicated in thousands of malware attacks shares the same name as a Swedish man who pleaded guilty in 2015 to co-creating the Blackshades RAT, a similar product that was used to infect more than half a million compute...

Is Your Baby Monitor Susceptible to Hacking?

There’s no doubt that digital technology, in many of its forms, brings everyday tasks much closer-to-hand. From discovering breaking news, to online shopping, to keeping tabs on your home via security cameras—everything is within the touch of a button. Even so, with the growing reach of the...

Experts: Breach at IT Outsourcing Giant Wipro

Indian information technology IT outsourcing and consulting giant Wipro Ltd. NYSE:WIT is investigating reports that its own IT systems have been hacked and are being used to launch attacks against some of the company's customers, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity. Wipro has refused to respond...

Zeebsploit - Web Scanner / Exploitation / Information Gathering

zeebsploit is a tool for hacking searching for web information and scanning vulnerabilities of a web Installation & Usage apt-get install git git clone https://github.com/jaxBCD/Zeebsploit.git cd Zeebsploit chmod +x install ./install python3 zeebsploit.py type 'help' for show modules and follow...

Say hello to Baldr, a new stealer on the market

By William Tsing, Vasilios Hioureas, and Jérôme Segura Over the past few months, we have noticed increased activity and development of new stealers. Unlike many banking Trojans that wait for the victim to log into their bank's website, stealers typically operate in grab-and-go mode. This means th...