Hackers Hate AI Slop Even More Than You Do

It's not just you. Scammers, hackers, and other cybercriminals are complaining about “AI shit” flooding platforms where they discuss cyberattacks and other illegal activity...

The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters

Plus: New details emerge in the National Public Data breach, Discord gets blocked in Russia and Turkey over alleged illegal activity on the platform, and more...

Tech support scammers caught by their own cameras

A Youtuber has hacked into the CCTV cameras of an office used by tech support scammers and reported them to the police. The video feed of what is going on in that office ends with the arrest of the scammers. CCTV The Youtuber, acting under the handle Scambaiter, turned his attention to Punjab in...

Hollywood’s Fight Against VPNs Turns Ugly

Beyond accusations of rampant user copyright infringement, film companies have begun accusing VPNs of enabling a slew of more serious illegal activity...

Exploit for Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Siemens 6Bk1602-0Aa12-0Tp0_Firmware

log4py pythonic pure python RCE exploit for CVE-2021-44228 log...

Friday Squid Blogging: Chinese Squid Fishing Near the Galapagos

The Chinese have been illegally squid fishing near the Galapagos Islands. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Facebook Boots 74 Cybercrime Groups From Platform

Facebook has booted more than 70 cybercrime groups off its platform that were peddling illicit services – from email spamming tools to stolen credentials and payment information sales – in plain sight. Researchers said a simple search on Facebook for keywords like “spam,” “CVV” or more returned...

Fluxion - Set Up Fake AP, Fake DNS, And Create Captive Portal To Trick Users Into Giving You Their Password

Fluxion is a security auditing and social-engineering research tool. It is a remake of linset by vk496 with hopefully less bugs and more functionality. The script attempts to retrieve the WPA/WPA2 key from a target access point by means of a social engineering phishing attack. It's compatible wit...

Detect Illegal Wireless Network Activities: WIPI-HUNTER

WipiHunter is developed for detecting illegal wireless network activities; howver, it shouldn’t be seen only as a piece of code. Instead, actually it is a philosophy. You can infer from this project new wireless network illegal activity detection methods. New methods, new ideas and different poin...

Coupon fraud could be costing your business millions

Customers are always looking for good deals with their purchases and a coupon could be the defining factor for a buyer completing his or her transaction. In fact, a 2015 survey by CreditCards.com found that paper coupons were used by 63 percent of respondents. This is followed by discounts for...

China makes VPNs illegal to tighten its Great Firewall

China is long known for its strict Internet censorship laws through the Great Firewall of China – China's Golden Shield project that employs a variety of tricks to censor Internet and block access to various foreign websites in the country by its government. The Great Firewall has blocked some 17...

Russia arrests 50 hackers who stole $25 million from Banks

Russian authorities have arrested a gang of 50 hackers suspected of stealing more than 1.7 Billion Rubles over US$25 Million from banks and other financial institutions in the country since 2011. The same criminal gang had tried to steal a further 2.273 Billion Roubles by issuing false payment...

HackBack - A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers

HackBack - A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers. Papers exploit for Multiple platform | | | | | | | | | | | | || |/ |/ | |/ / | \ / |/ | |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | || || ||,|||\ |/ ,|||\ A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers --...

Indictment Names Reddit Luminary In Theft of Data from MIT

A 24 year-old entrepreneur and star programmer has been indicted by the federal authorities in Boston following and accused of hacking into the network of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and making off with millions of pages of copyrighted documents. Aaron Swartz, who is best known as a...