Hackers Infiltrate Russian Government and Industrial Entities

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Numerous governmental and pivotal industrial entities in Russia fell victim to a sophisticated Go-based custom backdoor. This malicious software was specifically crafted for data theft, suggesting its...

Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids

By Waqas The IT Security firm Symantec revealed on Wednesday that hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Have Reportedly Infiltrated The US Power Grids...

How Russian Hackers Placed "Digital Bomb" Into the NASDAQ

Four years ago, NASDAQ servers were compromised by Russian hackers, who were somehow able to insert a "digital bomb" into the systems of NASDAQ stock exchange, which would have been able to cause several damage to the computer systems in the stock market and could bring down the entire structure ...

Reserve Bank of Australia Hacked by Chinese malware

If hackers want to get into your computer network, they will find a way. You can make it harder but you can’t stop them. According to Australian Financial Review report on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA was hacked by hackers who infiltrated its networks and allegedly stole information...

Facebook Says Employee Laptops Compromised in 'Sophisticated' Attack

Laptops belonging to several Facebook employees were compromised recently and infected with malware that the company said was installed through the use of a Java zero-day exploit that bypassed the software’s sandbox. Facebook claims that no user data was affected by the attack and says that it ha...

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days Al-Qaeda's main internet forums have been offline for the past 12 days in the longest sustained outages of the sites since they began operating. Several online forums frequently visited by al-Qaeda operatives were downed over the course o...

Kneber Botnet Infiltrated 74,000 Systems

More than 74,000 PCs at nearly 2,500 organizations around the globe were compromised over the past year and a half in a botnet infestation designed to steal login credentials to bank sites, social networks, and e-mail systems, researchers have discovered. Read the full article. cnet...