DoppelPaymer ransomware hits SpaceX, Tesla & Boeing’s parts manufacturer

By Deeba Ahmed According to security researchers, DoppelPaymer Ransomware is a relatively new file-encrypting and data-stealing malware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DoppelPaymer ransomware hits SpaceX, Tesla & Boeing's parts manufacturer...

Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Service Tutanota

By Deeba Ahmed The open-source encrypted email service Tutanota has been blocked in certain parts of Russia over the weekend. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia Blocks Encrypted Email Service Tutanota...

PhotoSquared app leaks photos & home addresses of 100,000s of users

By Waqas Another day, another data breach putting user data at risk - This time, PhotoSquared. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PhotoSquared app leaks photos & home addresses of 100,000s of users...

Welp – Google sent your photos & videos to strangers

By Uzair Amir Not a Good news for Google Takeout users. Were you photos or videos were also shared by Google with strangers? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Welp - Google sent your photos & videos to strangers...

Did Saudi Crown Prince use Israeli spyware to hack Jeff Bezos’s iPhone?

By Waqas According to the UN high commissioner for human rights, Bezos’s iPhone was hacked using NSO Group’s spyware called... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Did Saudi Crown Prince use Israeli spyware to hack Jeff Bezos’s iPhone?...

Faketoken malware sends expensive & offensive texts at your expense

By Sudais Another day, another Android malware.! This time, Faketoken malware has made a comeback and here's what it does... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Faketoken malware sends expensive & offensive texts at your expense...

Vulnerability expose Barco wireless presentation system to remote attacks

By Sudais 10 of these were found to have Common Vulnerability and Exposure CVE identifiers that these particular vulnerabilities were already... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vulnerability expose Barco wireless presentation system to remote attacks...

8chan down after Cloudflare & hosting firms boots it off

By Uzair Amir Cloudflare's decision came hours after it was reported that 8chan has been linked to three recent mass shootings in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8chan down after Cloudflare & hosting firms boots it off...

10 Typical Mistakes in Scientific Research Paper Writing

By Owais Sultan To help you to improve the quality of your scientific research paper writing, we’ve compiled a list of ten typical mistakes found in scientific research paper writing. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 Typical Mistakes in Scientific Research Paper Writing...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

By Uzair Amir The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took plac...

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...

Update your devices: New Bluetooth flaw lets attackers monitor traffic

By Waqas The Bluetooth flaw also opens door to a man-in-the-middle attack. The IT security researchers at Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a critical security vulnerability in some implementations of the Bluetooth standard in which not all the parameters involved are appropriately...

Who’s Reading Your Gmail Messages?

By Kayla Matthews Are any of our online activities private anymore? That’s the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Who's Reading Your Gmail Messages?...

Prowli malware takes over 40,000 devices worldwide for Monero mining

By Waqas According to a newly released report, a malicious crypto-mining and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prowli malware takes over 40,000 devices worldwide for Monero mining...

WannaCry hero charged with creating Kronos banking malware

By Waqas The 23-year-old cybersecurity expert, Marcus Hutchins @Malwaretech on Twitter, who This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero charged with creating Kronos banking malware...

Sensitive myPersonality App Data of Millions of Facebook Users Exposed

By Carolina According to a startling new report, the University of Cambridge has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sensitive myPersonality App Data of Millions of Facebook Users Exposed...

Thousands of Android apps for kids are secretly tracking their activities

By Waqas Have you ever noticed you are talking about a product This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Thousands of Android apps for kids are secretly tracking their activities...

Tinder flaw exposes user swipe, match and photos to strangers

By Waqas Tinder is an online dating app that was launched in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tinder flaw exposes user swipe, match and photos to strangers...

Critical Intel AMT Flaw Lets Attackers Hack Laptops in Mere Seconds

By Waqas It has been a matter of days when we found This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical Intel AMT Flaw Lets Attackers Hack Laptops in Mere Seconds...

Teen girl facing up to 10 years for sending nude selfie

By Carolina As unnerving and concerning as it sounds, the fact is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Teen girl facing up to 10 years for sending nude selfie...

Someone hacked N. Korean Radio Station to Play “The Final Countdown”

By Waqas Its just another day with just another radio station transmission This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone hacked N. Korean Radio Station to Play The Final Countdown...

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...

DDoS attacks on Sweden’ Transport Agencies Delay Train Service

By Waqas The official website of Transportstyrelsen, Swedens Transport Agency STA came under This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS attacks on Sweden Transport Agencies Delay Train Service...

British Intelligence Knew WannaCry Hero Would be Arrested by FBI

By Waqas By now you might be aware of Marcus Hutchins, the This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British Intelligence Knew WannaCry Hero Would be Arrested by FBI...

7 More Chrome Extensions Hacked via Phishing Scam

By Waqas Google Chrome Extensions on the Radar of Cybercriminals of late- This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 7 More Chrome Extensions Hacked via Phishing Scam...

Nigerian Man Hacked Thousands of Global Oil & Gas and Energy Firms

By Uzair Amir The IT security researchers at CheckPoint cyber security firm headquartered in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nigerian Man Hacked Thousands of Global Oil Gas and Energy Firms...

Someone DDoSed Chinese Telecom Firm For 11 Days

By Waqas It seems like cyber criminals have taken the challenge to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone DDoSed Chinese Telecom Firm For 11 Days...

New Pink Extortion Group Targets Microsoft 365 Cloud Data Via Vishing Scams

Cybersecurity researchers are warning businesses about Pink Extortion Group, a threat actor that uses voice phishing to bypass multi-factor authentication and steal files from cloud environments...

AgentFlayer 0-click exploit abuses ChatGPT Connectors to Steal 3rd-party app data

AgentFlayer is a critical vulnerability in ChatGPT Connectors. Learn how this zero-click attack uses indirect prompt injection to…...

Threat Actor Claims TikTok Breach, Puts 428 Million Records Up for Sale

Alleged TikTok Breach: Threat actor “Often9” claims to sell 428M user records, including emails, phones, and account details on dark web forum. TikTok is investigating!...

Hackers Claim Major Data Breach at Smart WiFi Provider Plume

By Waqas Plume has not confirmed the data breach but has acknowledged that the company is aware of the claims made by hackers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Claim Major Data Breach at Smart WiFi Provider Plume...

Smoke Loader Botnet Drops Location Tracker Whiffy Recon Malware

By Deeba Ahmed The new Whiffy Recon Malware was identified by cybersecurity researchers at Secureworks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smoke Loader Botnet Drops Location Tracker Whiffy Recon Malware...

DarkBERT: Enhancing Cybersecurity Efforts on the Dark Web

By Habiba Rashid DarkBERT is based on the RoBERTa architecture and leverages the power of AI to navigate the dark web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DarkBERT: Enhancing Cybersecurity Efforts on the Dark Web...

Crypto ATM Manufacturer General Bytes Suffers $1.5m Bitcoin Theft

By Habiba Rashid The company has disclosed the wallet addresses and three IP addresses used by the attacker in the hack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crypto ATM Manufacturer General Bytes Suffers $1.5m Bitcoin Theft...

Instant Checkmate, TruthFinder Data Breach: 20M Accounts Leaked

By Deeba Ahmed Instant Checkmate and TruthFinder are two subscription-based services allowing users to carry out background checks on people. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Instant Checkmate, TruthFinder Data Breach: 20M Accounts Leaked...

ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers in India Rejecting Data Collection Law

By Deeba Ahmed The new law requires service providers to store users web usage patterns, designated IP addresses, etc. for the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ExpressVPN Removes VPN Servers in India Rejecting Data Collection Law...

Anonymous leaks more EPIK host data; ‘larger than previous leak’

By Waqas According to Anonymous, the EPIK data leak involves bootable disk images, API tokens, over 500,000 private keys, etc. all in plain-text format. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous leaks more EPIK host data; larger than previous leak...

REvil ransomware group vanishes after mounting US pressure

By Sudais Asif Currently, Hackread.com can confirm that the official website of the REvil group along with its chat and payment gateways are offline. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: REvil ransomware group vanishes after mounting US pressure...

Online learning provider New Skills Academy alerts users of data breach

By Waqas According to the data breach notification email sent by New Skills Academy, the number of victims impacted by the breach is yet unknown. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Online learning provider New Skills Academy alerts users of data breach...

Hacker wipes out database of RSS newsreader service NewsBlur

By Deeba Ahmed Personal newsreader NewsBlur service has been restored after a hacker wiped out MongoDB data that was exposed to public access. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker wipes out database of RSS newsreader service NewsBlur...

The Threat of Ransomware on the Rise in 2021

By Waqas Did you know the first reported instances of ransomware attacks date back to 1989 and they were levied against the healthcare industry? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Threat of Ransomware on the Rise in 2021...

Vulnerability exposed Peloton bike, treadmil to malware attacks

By Deeba Ahmed Peloton workouts are susceptible to hacking leading to malware and spying, claims McAfee's Advanced Threat Research team. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vulnerability exposed Peloton bike, treadmil to malware attacks...

4 Ways For Employees To Distinguish Phishing Attacks

By Waqas It’s vital that employees are taught about the different types of phishing attacks and that they are aware of what to look out for. Let's dig further. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 4 Ways For Employees To Distinguish Phishing Attacks...

Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US

By Deeba Ahmed Kirill Victorovich Firsov, a Russian Citizen has been jailed for 30 months in US prison for running popular cybercrime marketplace Deer.io. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian admin of cybercrime marketplace Deer.io jailed in US...

How chat platforms are using Machine Learning for content moderation?

By Uzair Amir More and more online services are using Machine Learning ML, the method of data analysis that will automate the building of analytical mode. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How chat platforms are using Machine Learning for content moderation?...

Authorities take down scam campaign impersonating the WHO

By Habiba Rashid The group behind the campaign was DarkPath Scammers, who had created a distributed network of 134 rogue websites impersonating the WHO. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities take down scam campaign impersonating the WHO...

Gamers targeted in new malware attack with games cheat codes

By Habiba Rashid The malware used in this attack is XtremeRat ExtRat which is a commercially available remote access trojan RAT. Here's what we know so far. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Gamers targeted in new malware attack with games cheat codes...

Hundred thousand Spotify accounts leaked in credential stuffing attack

By Saad Rajpoot Spotify has suffered its second credential stuffing attack in three months. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hundred thousand Spotify accounts leaked in credential stuffing attack...

Watch out as new Matryosh DDoS botnet hits Android devices

By Deeba Ahmed According to Netlab researchers, Matryosh DDoS botnet reuses the Mirai botnet framework. Here's how the malware works. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch out as new Matryosh DDoS botnet hits Android devices...

Hackers access customers database by scamming UScellular staff

By Waqas The data breach may have allowed unauthorized individuals to access UScellular wireless customers' accounts and wireless phone numbers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers access customers database by scamming UScellular staff...