Steam vulnerabilities allowed remote take over of users’ computers

By Waqas In total, CheckPoint researchers found 4 vulnerabilities all allowing attackers to harm Steam and those using 3rd party game server. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Steam vulnerabilities allowed remote take over of users computers...

3 including a juvenile charged over July 15th Twitter hack

By Waqas The Twitter hack allowed hackers to rake in over £80,000/$100,000. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 3 including a juvenile charged over July 15th Twitter hack...

Brazil’s cosmetic giant Natura leaked 192 million records with payment data

By Waqas It's a massive security failure by The Natura & Co Group. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Brazil's cosmetic giant Natura leaked 192 million records with payment data...

REvil hackers leaks email conversation on Trump amid ransom demand

By Sudais Asif The leak came a day after the REvil ransomware group demanded $42 million to keep Trump’s ‘dirty laundry’ offline. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: REvil hackers leaks email conversation on Trump amid ransom demand...

Researchers detected 400 million malware infections in April 2020

By Waqas Worldwide Malware Infections Rise to 404 Million with Daily 10 Million Infections in April 2020. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researchers detected 400 million malware infections in April 2020...

Hackers breach Ghost blogging platform to mine cryptocurrency

By Waqas The popular open-source blogging platform Ghost has suffered a security breach in which hackers attempted to mine cryptocurrency on... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers breach Ghost blogging platform to mine cryptocurrency...

Hackers deface church service on Zoom with child abuse content

By Deeba Ahmed Just yesterday it was reported that a critical Zoom vulnerability lets hackers record meetings anonymously... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers deface church service on Zoom with child abuse content...

Feds seize WeLeakInfo.com for selling stolen databases

By Sudais Asif WeLeakInfo.com was home to over 10,000 data breaches containing over 12 billion indexed records. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds seize WeLeakInfo.com for selling stolen databases...

Hundreds of counterfeit branded shoe stores hacked with web skimmer

By Uzair Amir Research suggests that there are hundreds of fake branded shoe websites that are infected with credit card skimmer, which is... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hundreds of counterfeit branded shoe stores hacked with web skimmer...

Effective Way to Download Youtube Playlist

By Uzair Amir How to download YouTube playlist? Here are 3 quick options! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Effective Way to Download Youtube Playlist...

Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak

By Ryan De Souza Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency NSA and exploit them to attack American private...

Hard Times for Cryptojacking

By David Balaban What is Cryptojacking? It is an attack in which hackers secretly utilize the computing power of your device to mine cryptocurrency - The cybercrime climate is flexible enough to quickly adapt to new circumstances and trends. The fact that cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed in the...

Flaw in NSA’s GHIDRA leads to remote code execution attacks

By Waqas GHIDRA is NSA's reverse engineering tool released earlier this month. Earlier this month, Hackread.com posted about the National Security Agency’s NSA publicly releasing its decompiler and disassembler tool GHIDRA and make it open-source software. Now, it has been revealed that the gener...

New Firmware Version of Nintendo Switch Hacked in just 4 Hours

By Waqas Nintendo Switch Hacked: The company was claiming to have added advanced security codes in this version of Switch Firmware. The problems for Nintendo console owners are far from over as the latest firmware version got hacked in merely a few hours. According to reports, the newly rolled ou...

Russia launched Triton malware to sabotage Saudi petrochemical plant

By Waqas A few days ago it was reported that a new malware called GreyEnergy has been targeting high-profile industrial and energy sector with espionage and fingers were pointed at Russian hackers. Now, it has been revealed that Petrochemical plants in Saudi Arabia have been on the radar of...

New sextortion scheme uses victims’ real password for blackmailing

By Carolina The Sextortion Campaign involves Passwords Stolen from Old Data Breaches. Internet users need to be wary of a new phishing scam that is actually a sextortion scheme, which utilizes old passwords of users and blackmails them for watching pornography. The scammers claim to have recorded...

Hamas hacked smartphones of over 100 IDF soldiers

By Waqas IDF blames Palestinian hackers for spying on its soldiers with This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hamas hacked smartphones of over 100 IDF soldiers...

PBot adware spams ads & installs cryptominer on Windows PCs

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered an adware This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PBot adware spams ads & installs cryptominer on Windows PCs...

FBI: Protect yourself from VPNFilter malware; reboot your router now

By Waqas VPNFilter malware was part of a nasty botnet that infected This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI: Protect yourself from VPNFilter malware; reboot your router now...

Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums

By Waqas A cybercriminal operating from outside China was found to be This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Data of millions of Japanese sold on underground hacking forums...

Copenhagen city’s bicycle sharing system hacked; 1,800 bikes affected

By Waqas You have heard about ride-sharing companies like Uber and Careem This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Copenhagen city's bicycle sharing system hacked; 1,800 bikes affected...

Popular VPNs Leaking Your Real IP Address Through WebRTC Leak

By Waqas Paolo Stagno, an Italian security researcher using the online moniker This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular VPNs Leaking Your Real IP Address Through WebRTC Leak...

Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37

By Waqas Adrian Lamo, a hacker who was once in the news This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37...

Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus allows anyone to bypass lockscreen

By Waqas A critical security flaw or bug in Motorola Moto G5 Plus This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Security flaw in Moto G5 Plus allows anyone to bypass lockscreen...

Security Flaws in GPS Trackers Puts Millions of Devices’ Data at Risk

By Waqas Trackmadeddon attack puts millions of vulnerable GPS trackers at risk This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Security Flaws in GPS Trackers Puts Millions of Devices Data at Risk...

All it took for researchers was a mask to bypass iPhone X Face ID

By Waqas Apple Inc. introduced Face ID facial recognition system on September This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: All it took for researchers was a mask to bypass iPhone X Face ID...

Multi-Sig Wallets worth $300M Mistakenly Blocked by User

By Waqas As surprising and unbelievable as it sounds, it is indeed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multi-Sig Wallets worth $300M Mistakenly Blocked by User...

CloudFlare Boots Off Torrent Site For Using Cryptocurrency Miner

By Waqas CloudFlare says sites running mining code without notifying users are considered to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CloudFlare Boots Off Torrent Site For Using Cryptocurrency Miner...

Instagram hacked; data of top celebrities stolen and traded

By Waqas Facebook owned Instagram said that unknown hackers have exploited a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Instagram hacked; data of top celebrities stolen and traded...

Selena Gomez’ Instagram hacked; posts nude photos of Justin Bieber

By Carolina Earlier today August 28, the official Instagram of popular singer Selena This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Selena Gomez Instagram hacked; posts nude photos of Justin Bieber...

Sarahah App Uploads Your Contacts List on Unidentified Server

By Waqas Sarahah is a new app that is gaining popularity among This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sarahah App Uploads Your Contacts List on Unidentified Server...

Enigma Marketplace Hacked; $500,000 in Ethereum Stolen

By Waqas On August 20th, Enigma, a decentralized marketplace and cryptocurrency investment This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Enigma Marketplace Hacked; $500,000 in Ethereum Stolen...

Hackers Exploit N-able N-central Flaw After Initial Fix Falls Short

N-able says attackers bypassed N-central authentication, reached managed client devices and installed Cloudflare tunnels that survived server access revocation...

Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 Closes With $1.3 Million in Zero-Day Payouts

Cybersecurity researchers successfully demonstrated 47 unique zero-day exploits at Pwn2Own Berlin 2026, targeting major enterprise software and AI platforms...

SilverRAT Source Code Leaked Online: Here’s What You Need to Know

SilverRAT Source Code leaked on GitHub, exposing powerful malware tools for remote access, password theft, and crypto attacks before removal...

Threat Actor Selling 1.2 Billion Facebook Records, But Details Don’t Add Up

Threat actor 'ByteBreaker' claims to sell 1.2B Facebook records scraped via API abuse, but inconsistencies in data size and identity raise doubts...

Microsoft Discovers macOS Flaw CVE-2024-44243, Bypassing SIP

CVE-2024-44243, a critical macOS vulnerability discovered recently by Microsoft, can allow attackers to bypass Apple's System Integrity Protection…...

CISA Urges Patching Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2023-24955)

By Deeba Ahmed Critical Microsoft SharePoint Flaw Exploited: Patch Now, CISA Urges! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CISA Urges Patching Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability CVE-2023-24955...

AsyncRAT Infiltrates Key US Infrastructure Through GIFs and SVGs

By Deeba Ahmed Undetected for Over 11 Months, AsyncRAT Lurked on Systems of Sensitive US Agencies with Critical Infrastructures, reports the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AsyncRAT Infiltrates Key US Infrastructure Through GIFs and SVGs...

Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as Win32/Malgent!MTB Malware

By Waqas Win32/Malgent!MTB is a generic detection that Microsoft Defender uses to identify Trojans that are designed to perform a variety of malicious actions on a computer. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Defender Flags Tor Browser as Win32/Malgent!MTB Malware...

Zero-Day Exploit Threatens 200,000 WordPress Websites

By Habiba Rashid Tracked as CVE-2023-3460, the zero-day vulnerability possesses a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating its severity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zero-Day Exploit Threatens 200,000 WordPress Websites...

REvil ransomware gang goes dark after its Tor sites are hacked

By Deeba Ahmed In July 2021 the REvil ransomware group vanished due to mounting US pressure after the Kaseya attack. However, the group was back in September 2021 by carrying out extortion-based DDoS attacks on ITSPs in the UK and Canada/America. The infamous REvil ransomware group has suddenly...

12 years jail for man who unlocked phones, defrauded AT&T of $200m

By Deeba Ahmed According to the US DoJ, Fahd remotely unlocked phones belonging to AT&T despite knowing that an investigation was launched against him. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 12 years jail for man who unlocked phones, defrauded AT&T of $200m...

Experts concerned over emergence of new Android banking trojan S.O.V.A.

By Waqas Researchers have identified a new Android banking trojan called S.O.V.A. being advertised on a Russian hacker and cybercrime forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Experts concerned over emergence of new Android banking trojan S.O.V.A...

Hacker selling alleged stolen 100 million T-Mobile customer data for $200

By Waqas The hacker claims to have hacked T-Mobile's production, development, and staging servers around two weeks back, including its Oracle database server. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker selling alleged stolen 100 million T-Mobile customer data for $200...

Defunct marketing firm exposed 32GB worth of records, customers data

By Waqas According to researchers, the exposed database contained around 50,000 files and had 32GB worth of data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Defunct marketing firm exposed 32GB worth of records, customers data...

WhatsApp Introduces View Once Feature for Videos and Photos

By Deeba Ahmed View Once feature will keep the images accessible for a maximum of 14 days, and they will expire afterward. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WhatsApp Introduces View Once Feature for Videos and Photos...

Fake Brave browser website dropped malware, thanks to Google Ads

By Waqas Threat actors used Google Ads to buy top search results on Google to advertise fake Brave browser websites which delivered malware as the browser's download file. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Brave browser website dropped malware, thanks to Google Ads...

Kaseya issues patches for vulnerabilities exploited in ransomware attack

By Deeba Ahmed Kaseya VSA has released patches for 3 critical vulnerabilities exploited by the REvil ransomware gang in ransomware attack earlier this month. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kaseya issues patches for vulnerabilities exploited in ransomware attack...

How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy

By Sudais Asif Gaming firms collect user data to improve user experience but how that data can be used for malicious purposes? Here's what researchers say. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How data collected in gaming can be used to breach user privacy...