Angler Exploit Kit, Bedep Malware Inflating Video Views

A new sort of hacktivism emerged last week when experts from Trustwave published new research revealing that attackers are using the Angler exploit kit and the Bedep Trojan in order to drive artificial views to politically controversial videos. The motivation for the scheme, it appears, is to...

Popular Remote access Trojan njRAT fuels Middle East Cyber Crime

Again the sophisticated piece of malware, "njRAT" has come to picture targeting the government agencies and organizations in the Middle East, according to the research carried out by Symantec security researchers. The researchers analyzed 721 samples of malicious code ‘njRAT’ and revealed that a...

US news agency GlobalPost's twitter and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

In a series of high profile hacks, 'Syrian Electronic Army SEA' just a few minutes before took control twitter account and website of 'GlobalPost', a US based news agency. 'Syrian Electronic Army is an organized hacking group loyal to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and known for their high...

Anonymous Hackers claim to breach North Korean site Uriminzokkiri

Hacking group Anonymous claims to have broken into North Korean site Uriminzokkiri.com and got their hands on more than 15,000 user credentials. A message posted online makes the claim and includes details for six accounts, apparently showing user names, e-mail addresses, birth dates, and hashed...

Team Ghostshell leaks 1.6 million accounts under #ProjectWhiteFox

Team Ghostshell a Hacktivists group of hackers, who before was in news for hacking Major Universities Around The Globe and leaked 120,000 records, are once again hit major organisations and expose around 1.6 million accounts Hacker name the project as ProjectWhiteFox , means "Freedom of...

Hacktivism - The Hacker News Magazine - May 2012 Issue

Welcome cyber space readers and internet junkies from around the world. May brings us into an in-depth look at our favorite topic: Hacktivism Our fearless leader, Mohit Kumar, founder of The Hacker News opens the discussion with a look at the meaning of Hackitivism and what it means for society...

[ Call for Articles ] The Hacker News Magazine - Hacktivism Special Edition - May 2012

Call for Articles The Hacker News Magazine - Hacktivism Special Edition - May 2012 A big shout out to all you cowboys and cowgirls who want to stir up some thoughtful reading and discussions by submitting to The Hacker News Magazine articles regarding Hacktivism. As you know, Hacktivism is the us...

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011 According to the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report released on Thursday, Hacktivists stole more data from large corporations than cybercriminals in 2011, according to a study of significant security incidents. The report surveyed 855 da...

HITB2011KUL - Privacy, Secrecy, Freedom and Power

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Privacy, Secrecy, Freedom and Power References: =========== View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsYYZl4sk Release Date: ============= 2012-01-16 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 386 Discovery Status:...

House GOP Task Force Favors Private Incentives, Fewer Regulations for Cybersecurity

A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security. The GOP proposes a combination of tax credits, grants, insurance and rules set by non-regulatory agencies as a w...

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

Comodohacker is 21 year old patriotic Iranian Hacker

Comodohacker is 21 year old patriotic Iranian Hacker The New York Times got in touch with Comodohacker, who says he's a 21-year-old Iranian student, and asked him about the motives behind his sweeping breach of Gmail this summer. By sniping security certificates from a Dutch company — essentially...

Ten Years After, the Attackers Have Taken the Lead

In the days following 9/11 we heard alarmist warnings of a coming wave of cyberterrorism. In the early days of the war in Afghanistan when an Al Qaeda computer was found, it was treated as evidence that terrorists knew how to use computers so therefore they would soon be sending worms to shut dow...

Hacker Grrl Behind HBGary Attack?

Could a 16 year old girl named Kayla be the mastermind behind the breach of elite security firm HBGary? That’s the contention of Forbes blogger Parmy Olson, who has written up her online conversations with a purported member of the Anonymous hacker collective who goes by the online handle ‘k. ‘K...

Threatpost's Five Security Trends to Watch in 2011

2010 ended with dire predictions about a new age of Internet enabled hacker-activism, but the big story in 2011 will be the explosion in IP enabled, loosely secured, Internet connected stuff. It’s the time of year when all of us gaze into the crystal ball and think of what the next 12 months has ...

Report : Top Hacker Targets Include Mobile Devices and Mac !

McAfee is making security predictions for 2011. The firm outlines its top threats for next year in the 2011 Threat Predictions report -- and Android, iPhone, Foursquare, Google TV, and Mac OS X are listed as major cybercrime targets. Politically motivated attacks are also expected to increase, a ...

Carry Wikileaks Lessons Into The New Year

Editor’s Note: The storm of news coverage about the release of confidential diplomatic memos by whistleblower site Wikileaks may have passed, but the story is far from over. In the meantime, organizations are left to draw their own conclusions about the lessons of the Wikileaks scandal and, then,...

PandaLabs Predicts Major Cybersecurity Trends for 2011

PandaLabs, the antimalware laboratory of Panda Security, has predicted several major cybersecurity threats for 2011. These include hacktivism, cyber warfare, profit-driven malware, social engineering, and adaptive malicious codes. Additionally, there will be increased threats to Mac users, new...

Dutch Teens Arrested for Cyberattacks on Mastercard and Visa

A Dutch hacker collective called Revspace aims to "re-educate" Dutch teens suspected of cyberattacks against Mastercard, Visa, and the Dutch National Prosecutors Office, transforming them into "ethical hackers." Last week, Dutch police arrested a 16-year-old boy for participating in web attacks...