Ethical Hackers Breach U.N., Access 100,000 Private Records

Security researchers successfully hacked the United Nations, accessing user credentials and personally identifiable information PII–including more than 100,000 private employee and project records—before informing the U.N. about the problem through the organization’s vulnerability disclosure...

Federal agency compromised leveraging compromised credentials

By Sudais Asif a Federal agency's computer network by gaining access to Microsoft Office 365 login credentials and domain administrator accounts. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Federal agency compromised leveraging compromised credentials...

CVE-2020-16205

Using a specially crafted URL command, a remote authenticated user can execute commands as root on the G-Cam and G-Code Firmware Versions 1.12.0.25 and prior as well as the limited Versions 1.12.13.2 and 1.12.14.5. Recent assessments: gwillcox-r7 at November 25, 2020 5:11pm UTC reported: The serv...

U.N. Hack Stemmed From Microsoft SharePoint Flaw

Hackers breached the United Nations network in July by exploiting a Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability, according to reports. The breach, which appears to be an espionage operation, reportedly gave the hackers access to an estimated 400 GB of sensitive data. The breach was swept under the rug by...

How Organizations Can Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced persistent threats APTs have emerged to be legitimate concerns for all organizations. APTs are threat actors that breach networks and infrastructures and stealthily lurk within them over extended spans of time. They typically perform complex hacks that allow them to steal or destroy data...

Snatch Team Steals Data and Hammers Orgs with Ransomware

A fresh ransomware variant known as “Snatch” has been spotted in campaigns, forcing Windows machines to reboot into Safe Mode before beginning the encryption process. It’s one of multiple components of a malware constellation being used in carefully orchestrated attacks that also feature rampant...

Avast Network Breached As Hackers Target CCleaner Again

Czech antivirus vendor Avast on Monday warned that hackers were able to access its internal network using a temporary VPN account. Avast said that it believes that the intrusion, first detected on Sept. 25, was likely targeting its CCleaner business in a supply chain attack. CCleaner, which is...

A New Breed of ATM Hackers Gets in Through a Bank’s Network

Innovations in digital payment system attack methods mean the rash of heists isn’t over...

Dell Warns of Attempted Breach on Network

Dell EMC is warning its Dell.com customers of unauthorized activity on its network that occurred on Nov. 9 when it believes adversaries attempted to access names, email addresses and hashed passwords. In response, the company said that it has reset all Dell.com customer passwords. Dell said that...

Cheddar’s Restaurants Bitten By Credit-Card Breach

Fast-casual stalwart Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen has become the latest restaurant to suffer a payment-card breach. Cheddar’s, known for its reasonably priced country-fried chicken, pot pies, ribs and other comfort food, has hundreds of locations across the Midwest and the South. It said that it...

Don't let your factory plant become the next cybersecurity victim

In 2014, a smart refrigerator had been caught red-handed for spawning over 750,000 spam emails after hijacked by a botnet attack. It is the first documented attack worldwide for Internet of Things to have fallen prey to hackersi. A more recent case in the US concerns an internet connected...

Self-Service Food Kiosk Vendor Avanti Hacked

Avanti Markets, a company whose self-service payment kiosks sit beside shelves of snacks and drinks in thousands of corporate breakrooms across America, has suffered of breach of its internal networks in which hackers were able to push malicious software out to those payment devices, the company...

NASA HACKED! AnonSec tried to Crash $222 Million Drone into Pacific Ocean

Once again the Red Alarm had been long wailed in the Security Desk of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA. Yes! This time, a serious hacktivism had been triggered by the Hacking group named "AnonSec" who made their presence in the cyber universe by previous NASA Hacks. The...

Casino Sues Cyber Security Company Over Failure to Stop Hackers

IT security firm Trustwave has been sued by a Las Vegas-based casino operator for conducting an allegedly "woefully inadequate" investigation following a network breach of the casino operator’s system. Affinity Gaming, an operator of 5 casinos in Nevada and 6 elsewhere in the United States, has...

Hackers Release Hacking Team Internal Documents After Breach

Attackers have compromised the network of Italian intrusion software vendor Hacking Team and released a large cache of the company’s private documents, including customer invoices that show sales to oppressive governments. The incident came to light Sunday evening when unnamed attackers released ...

CHARGE Anywhere Breached, Plain Text Data Accessed

CHARGE Anywhere, a New Jersey-based developer of payment gateway and mobile payment applications, on Tuesday disclosed that it had been breached and that hackers had access to transactions leaving its network, perhaps going back as far as 2009. Most of the traffic was encrypted, the company said ...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Hardcoded Vendor Credentials Used in Target Data Breach

Attorney General Eric Holder told members of a Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday that the U.S. Justice Department is investigating the Target data breach. Target has already brought in the Secret Service and a computer forensics company to look into the break-in, which reportedly lasted betwee...

Adobe Gets Hacked; Hackers Steal 2.9 million Adobe Customers accounts

Hackers broke into Adobe Systems’ internal network on Thursday, stealing personal information on 2.9 million customers and the source code for several of Adobe’s most popular products. This an absolutely massive blow to Adobe, especially their reputation. Adobe, which makes Photoshop and other...

Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. "They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements," he said. He had claimed...