Wicked scammers steal $1 million from Save the Children charity

By Uzair Amir Another day, another email scam - This time, wicked scammers have stolen over $1,000,000 from Save the Children, an international non-governmental organization based in London, United Kingdom. This happened after scammers compromised email address of one of the Save the Children...

Personal & banking data of 120 million Brazilians leaked online

By Carolina The Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas CPFs is a taxpayer registry identification for Brazilians - In this case, 120 million CPFs were exposed online. The IT security researchers at InfoArmor's Advanced Threat Intelligence team discovered a treasure trove of personal sensitive data belonging...

Nasty Android malware found stealing its victims’ PayPal funds

By Waqas Another day, another Android malware - This time, according to the latest findings of ESET's IT security researchers, there is a new malware in Google Play Store that hijacks PayPal account to steal money - Researchers assessed that the malware is specifically targeting Android users and...

Dark web kingpin visiting US for beard competition gets 20 years in prison

By Waqas Dream Market Drug Vendor arrived in the US to participate in a beard competition in Texas. A Dark Web drug dealer has received 240 months or 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the crimes of laundering money and possessing controlled substances with the intention of distributin...

Don’t Fall for Webcam Blackmail: Here’s How to Protect Yourself

By Waqas NordVPN Tips on How to Avoid Sextortion Scammers Who Claim to Have a Video of You on Adult Sites. Authorities and cybersecurity experts have issued a fresh warning about the so-called sextortion scam that is making a comeback with new variations. Webcam porn scams have been on the rise f...

6 Tips to Protect Your Online Business from Cyber Attacks

By Carolina Cybercrime is on the rise, there is no denying this fact. With people becoming more reliant on technology, using their smartphones to log into their bank accounts and using social media which stores and uses your data, hackers are sometimes able to take advantage of this. You may thin...

The Pirate Bay is silently mining cryptocurrency without user consent

By Waqas After being offline for over a week, The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Pirate Bay is silently mining cryptocurrency without user consent...

Inmates pirated movies from computers they build with spare parts

By Waqas Initial investigations showed the same inmates were found hacking prison's This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Inmates pirated movies from computers they build with spare parts...

PyRoMine malware disables security & mines Monero using NSA exploits

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Fortinet have discovered a dangerous new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PyRoMine malware disables security & mines Monero using NSA exploits...

Students fell prey to phishing attacks conducted by their universities

By Waqas Universities Educating Students on Cybersecurity by Simulating Fake Phishing Attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Students fell prey to phishing attacks conducted by their universities...

British doctor says his laptop was hacked & led to Aleppo hospital airstrike

By Uzair Amir A British surgeon and consultant David Nott was just trying This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: British doctor says his laptop was hacked & led to Aleppo hospital airstrike...

Strava’s Global Heat Map Exposes User Locations Including Military Bases

By Waqas Strava is a GPS tracking and fitness-tracker app manufacturer that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Strava’s Global Heat Map Exposes User Locations Including Military Bases...

AI-Powered Search Engine Ella Searches Security Footage with Keywords

By Waqas New AI-Powered Search Engine Ella lets users search their security and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: AI-Powered Search Engine Ella Searches Security Footage with Keywords...

New Malware Campaign Launched to Disrupt Winter Olympics 2018

By Uzair Amir The 2018 Olympic Winter Games will be held in Pyeongchang in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Malware Campaign Launched to Disrupt Winter Olympics 2018...

Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public

By Uzair Amir The Communications Security Establishment CSE, Canada’s main signals intelligence agency, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Canada’s Spy Agency Releases its Cyber-Defense Tool for Public...

New Malware Hits ATMs Running on Win7 and Win Vista

By Waqas Kaspersky Discovers New Malware Strain ATMii that Attacks Win7 and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Malware Hits ATMs Running on Win7 and Win Vista...

PureVPN Aided FBI to Track CyberStalker by Providing His Logs

By Waqas On Friday a New Town, Massachusetts based man called Ryan This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PureVPN Aided FBI to Track CyberStalker by Providing His Logs...

Neo-Nazi DailyStormer Booted Off By Austrian Domain Registrar

By Carolina Andrew Anglin, the administrator of the neo-nazi website DailyStormer, has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Neo-Nazi DailyStormer Booted Off By Austrian Domain Registrar...

Electronics retail giant CeX hacked; data of 2 million customers stolen

By Waqas Another day another breach. CeX Ltd., the United Kingdom based This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Electronics retail giant CeX hacked; data of 2 million customers stolen...

10 gadgets to have while traveling

By Carolina When you work hard all year, it is only fair This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 gadgets to have while traveling...

Nasty Mamba ransomware that encrypts entire hard drive resurfaces

By Waqas Mamba Ransomware Resurfaces in Brazil and Saudi Arabia With Nefarious This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nasty Mamba ransomware that encrypts entire hard drive resurfaces...

Svpeng Android Banking Trojan Tweaked with Keylogger Feature

By Waqas With every passing day and every single hack attack, hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Svpeng Android Banking Trojan Tweaked with Keylogger Feature...

Chrome 0-Day CVE-2025-4664 Exposes Windows, Linux Browser Activity

A Chrome zero-day bug, CVE-2025-4664, exposes login tokens on Windows and Linux. Google has issued a fix, users should update immediately...

Critical Flaw Exposes Four-Faith Routers to Remote Exploitation

SUMMARY: VulnCheck has discovered a critical new vulnerability CVE-2024-12856 affecting Four-Faith industrial routers F3x24 and F3x36, with evidence…...

Global Retailer BuyGoods.com Leaks 198GB of Internal and User PII, KYC data

By Waqas Hailing from Wilmington, Delaware BuyGoods.com boasts a user base of 3 million consumers spanning across 17 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Global Retailer BuyGoods.com Leaks 198GB of Internal and User PII, KYC data...

Typosquatting: Legit Abquery Package Duped with Malicious Aabquerys

By Deeba Ahmed Aabquerys use the typosquatting technique to encourage downloading malicious components, as it has been cleverly named to make it sound like the legitimate NPM module Abquery. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Typosquatting: Legit Abquery Package Duped with...

Hacktivists Leak 1.7TB of Cellebrite, 103GB of MSAB Data

By Waqas The data is now available for download on DDoSecrets and the official website Enlace Hacktivista. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacktivists Leak 1.7TB of Cellebrite, 103GB of MSAB Data...

USB-based Wormable Raspberry Robin Malware Targeting Windows Installer

By Deeba Ahmed The malware Raspberry Robin is distributed via external drives and uses Microsoft Standard installer to execute malicious commands.… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: USB-based Wormable Raspberry Robin Malware Targeting Windows Installer...

Android game developer EskyFun exposed 1 million gamers to hackers

By Deeba Ahmed EskyFun used an unsecured Elasticsearch server for storing vast amounts of data collected from users which was later exposed online. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android game developer EskyFun exposed 1 million gamers to hackers...

38 million records exposed in Microsoft Power apps misconfiguration

By Waqas These records were exposed due to weak default configuration in the ODdata API for MS Power Apps. Here's what data was leaked. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 38 million records exposed in Microsoft Power apps misconfiguration...

Lead generation firm exposed household data of 63 million Americans

By Waqas The data leak contains email addresses with .gov suffixes or indicated that the user worked for New York Police Department. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lead generation firm exposed household data of 63 million Americans...

Domain, server of DoubleVPN used by ransomware gangs seized

By Deeba Ahmed US, Canada, and European authorities took part in the operation which ended up seizing cybercriminals' access to and infrastructure of DoubleVPN. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Domain, server of DoubleVPN used by ransomware gangs seized...

US supermarket giant Wegmans exposed sensitive data

By Habiba Rashid It took Wegmans a month to respond and secure its data after the Website Planet security team's responsible disclosure. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US supermarket giant Wegmans exposed sensitive data...

John McAfee has Died in Spanish Prison, Reports

By Waqas Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison near Barcelona, Spain. 75-year-old McAfee...

Prominent defibrillator management tool exposed to remote attacks

By Deeba Ahmed High-Risk security flaws found and patched in ZOLL defibrillator management software. Here's what happened and what was vulnerable. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Prominent defibrillator management tool exposed to remote attacks...

Nameless malware stole 26m login credentials from 3.25m computers

By Habiba Rashid The total amount of data collected by the malware includes 26 million login credentials holding 1.1 million unique email addresses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nameless malware stole 26m login credentials from 3.25m computers...

Hackers could access photos, videos without unlocking your phone

By Deeba Ahmed The vulnerability existed in the Facebook Messenger Rooms video chat feature and exposed Android smartphone users to intrusion. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers could access photos, videos without unlocking your phone...

Hackers Setup Fake Cyber Security firm to Target InfoSec Experts

By Waqas Google believes the hackers are backed by the North Korean government. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Setup Fake Cyber Security firm to Target InfoSec Experts...

5 security checks to perform when your site is being developed

By Waqas Here are five security checks that are necessary to secure your website from cyber-attacks while it is in the development phase - Better safe than sorry. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 security checks to perform when your site is being developed...

FluBot Android malware mimics FedEx, Chrome apps to steal user data

By Deeba Ahmed Cybersecurity company PRODAFT reports that newly discovered FluBot Android malware is impersonating an Android mobile banking application. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FluBot Android malware mimics FedEx, Chrome apps to steal user data...

Flaw allowed bypassing verification code, log in to any Microsoft account

By Deeba Ahmed A bug bounty hunter has identified and reported a vulnerability that allowed an attacker to log in to any Microsoft account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaw allowed bypassing verification code, log in to any Microsoft account...

One sticker could have exposed your Telegram secret chats

By Waqas The flaw originated in the way the Telegram app handled animated stickers and how the secret chat functionality operated. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: One sticker could have exposed your Telegram secret chats...

Security researchers claims downloading 70TB of sensitive Parler data

By Waqas Parler has been booted off by Amazon from its AWS cloud platform while Apple and Google have already suspended its apps from their app stores. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Security researchers claims downloading 70TB of sensitive Parler data...

Nissan source code leaked after it used “admin” as username, password

By Waqas The collection is 20 GB large and includes source code of a range of Nissan services including NissanConnect. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nissan source code leaked after it used "admin" as username, password...

iPhone Calendar Events spam is back: Here’s how to get rid of it

By Asad Remember the old annoying iPhone Calendar Events Spam? It’s back and worse than before. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: iPhone Calendar Events spam is back: Here’s how to get rid of it...

IMF could track your browsing history to determine credit score

By Deeba Ahmed IMF researchers hinted at the possibility of using the user's browsing history, including search and purchasing data to determine the credit rating. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IMF could track your browsing history to determine credit score...

Russian hackers targeted 40 agencies including US Nuclear Agency

By Deeba Ahmed Microsoft said that 80% of targets of the Russian-government backed hackers are located in the US including the Nuclear Security Agency. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian hackers targeted 40 agencies including US Nuclear Agency...

Hackers steal sensitive client data in Israeli insurance firm data breach

By Deeba Ahmed BlackShadow hackers took responsibility for the attack and leaked the data online belonging to Shirbit's customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers steal sensitive client data in Israeli insurance firm data breach...

Android TVs from top manufacturer plagued with ‘extraordinary’ flaws

By Sudais Asif A researcher reported 'extraordinary' vulnerabilities in TCL Android TVs - TCL is the world's 3rd largest TV manufacturer. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android TVs from top manufacturer plagued with extraordinary flaws...

Nitro software data breach: Hackers claim selling customer data

By Waqas Nitro Software Inc’s data breach may affect industry bigwigs like Apple, Google, and Microsoft. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nitro software data breach: Hackers claim selling customer data...