FBI warns that Anonymous Hackers has been hacking US Government for almost a year

The FBI is warning that members of the hacktivist group Anonymous hacking collective have secretly accessed US Government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago. The Hacktivists have exploited a flaw in Adobe applications to compromise the target...

Anonymous Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking Police websites

An Anonymous Hacker and Online hacktivist who was responsible for hacking into the City of Springfield’s website and others Police websites has been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. John Anthony Borell III, a 22-year-old man from Ohio with the online handle @ItsKahuna started advertising h...

Leaked credentials of Congress members by Anonymous hacker are inaccurate

Anonymous claimed it had stolen and leaked over 2,000 usernames and passwords for Hill staffers in an anti-PRISM protest, calling the move a pivotal moment for Congress. The Twitter handle @OpLastResort which claims to be affiliated with the famous hacktivist group posted the data and also tweete...

Leaked credentials of Congress members by Anonymous hacker are inaccurate

Anonymous claimed it had stolen and leaked over 2,000 usernames and passwords for Hill staffers in an anti-PRISM protest, calling the move a pivotal moment for Congress. The Twitter handle @OpLastResort which claims to be affiliated with the famous hacktivist group posted the data and also tweete...

'The Onion' Twitter Account Hacked via Phishing Attack

The hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army SEA briefly took over the Twitter account of the satirical news publication The Onion, posting a series of anti-Israeli joke stories and an anti-Obama meme image. In a post on The Onion tech team's GitHub blog, the fake news site explains that the Syria...

Two-Factor Authentication Won't Stop Twitter Compromises

The hijacking of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press and Guardian UK newspaper brings to light numerous security shortcomings, namely the susceptibility users still have when it comes to phishing attacks, their propensity to use weak passwords, and the inability to...

Once there was a Privacy! Cyber Security bill #CISPA passed

The United States House of Representatives on Thursday voted to approve the highly controversial cyber security bill CISPA, which stands for the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The Bill called the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act CISPA was presented under the guise...

Anonymous hacktivist Barrett Brown's Mother faces Prison for hiding Evidences

The mother of alleged Anonymous hacktivist Barrett Brown has pleaded guilty to helping her son hide two laptop computers from federal investigators. Brown's mother, Karen McCutchin, pleaded guilty last week to a charge of obstructing the execution of a search warrant. She faces a maximum sentence...

Philippines-Malaysia Cyber war over Sabah land dispute

A series of websites defacement has been conducted between Philippines and Malaysia over the dispute in the land of Sabah. Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous group from Malaysian and Filipino and attacking websites of each other. It was believed that the first online attacks were made by...

Philippines-Malaysia Cyber war over Sabah land dispute

A series of websites defacement has been conducted between Philippines and Malaysia over the dispute in the land of Sabah. Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous group from Malaysian and Filipino and attacking websites of each other. It was believed that the first online attacks were made by...

Anonymous threatens to Hack Obama's State of the Union broadcast

The hacktivist group Anonymous says it's planning to block all live streams of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night, in an operation entitled "Operation SOTU". "We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring...

Hackers breach Twitter and 250,000 accounts compromised

In recent The Hacker News updates, we have reported about some major hacking events and critical vulnerabilities i.e Cyber attack and spying on The New York Times and Wall Street Journal by Chinese Hackers, Security Flaws in UPnP protocol, Botnet attack hack 16,000 Facebook accounts, 700,000...

Team GhostShell Exposes 700k accounts from African universities and businesses

The Hacktivist group Team GhostShell today exposes data including 700,000 accounts / records from African universities and businesses during a campaign named ProjectSunRise. Hacker mention, "GhostShell's new project focuses on Africa, mainly, for the time being, South Africa and to some extent...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...

Anonymous hit Egyptian Government Websites as #OpEgypt

Anonymous hackers once again hit Egyptian Government Websites and taken down. Hackers react under operation named OpEgypt and hit 30 websites with DDos attack. Hacktivist using the handle @AnonymousGrupo claimed the responsibility of attack. Attacked websites include, The Egyptian Presidency...

Operation High Roller Banked on Fast-Flux Botnet to Steal Millions

A fraud ring that attacked financial transfer systems in an attempt to get at wealthy high-end banking customers used a complicated web of malware and compromised servers in several countries to walk off with an estimated $78 million earlier this year. While the attacks targeted financial systems...

Another Cyber attack Hit Regions Bank and SunTrust

As warned by Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters They launched another distributed denial-of-service DDOS attack against the website of Regions Financial Corp regions.com and SunTrust. The computer attacks burden the bank websites with heavy traffic volume that causes slow service for the sites o...

Swedish authorities raid on PRQ prompts new cyber attack from Anonymous

Computer hackers claiming to be from the Anonymous network took over the official website of Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. The attacks come just days after police on Monday raided a Stockholm-based webhosting company, PRQ, and a video was posted on YouTube - allegedly made on...

Anonymous Hackers not responsible for attack on Dahabshiil

There was an incident that a group claiming to be the cyber hacker or hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened Dahabshiil an international funds transfer company and the leading bank in Somalia, but the international funds transfer company based in the Middle East, says Anonymous was not...