Website uses Artificial Intelligence to create utterly realistic human faces

By Waqas A new way for cybercriminals to create fake social media profiles and carry identity scams using Artificial Intelligence powered tool? A couple of months ago it was reported that NVIDIA has developed a tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create extremely realistic human faces which...

Upcoming Firefox version to offer fingerprinting & cryptomining protection

By Uzair Amir There is very good news for Mozilla Firefox users. After improving the user experience with tracking protection function offering content blocking features and other changes in Firefox 63, Mozilla is aiming for another significant update in the upcoming version of the browser. The n...

Cloudflare Launches Android and iOS version of 1.1.1.1 DNS Service

By Waqas Download the app and toggle on it to generate a VPN profile that will automatically reroute the DNS traffic using the 1.1.1.1 DNS servers. On April 1, 2018, Cloudflare and APNIC launched the 1.1.1.1 public DNS service to speed up the searching process for web addresses faster and more...

Hacked YouTube Channels Use Trump Assassination News to Push Crypto Scam

Cybercriminals exploit Trumps assassination attempt to lure victims into a crypto doubling scam using deepfake Elon Musk videos…...

BidenCash Market Leaks 2M Credit Cards in Birthday Blitz

By Waqas As analyzed by Hackread.com, the leaked details contain over 500,000 email addresses along with credit card numbers and CVV codes in plain text. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BidenCash Market Leaks 2M Credit Cards in Birthday Blitz...

D.C. Police Department suffers ransomware attack

By Deeba Ahmed The group behind the ransomware attack is the Babuk Locker gang. The Department has acknowledged the attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: D.C. Police Department suffers ransomware attack...

SilverFish: Swiss firm accesses servers linked to SolarWinds hackers

By Deeba Ahmed The group used many different methods to attack their victims apart from exploiting the vulnerability in Texas-based firm SolarWinds software. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SilverFish: Swiss firm accesses servers linked to SolarWinds hackers...

New SystemBC malware targets Windows PCs by evading detection

By Sudais While finding and removing malware on your computer system may indeed be a joyous moment, there's a new malware out there that will give you a headache instead. To know why, a dive through is needed into SystemBC, a malware written in C++ that has been discovered by researchers at...

China’s BGP rerouting leaves European mobile carriers stranded for 2 hours

By Uzair Amir On Thursday, June 6th 9:43 am UTC, Europe’s leading mobile providers received a shock when a large chunk of the traffic destined to reach them was misdirected or rerouted to another path by the network of a Chinese state-operated telecom firm, China Telecom. The misdirection of the...

The Pitfalls of Keeping Your Ports Wide Open

By David Balaban Based on security assessment results, penetration testers often recommend hiding an enterprise network’s ports behind a whitelist. However, corporate IT teams don’t always understand the need for such a countermeasure. Even some admins and DevOps specialists with tons of experien...

DeepDotWeb, Wall St and Valhalla markets seized by authorities

By Uzair Amir Arrests have been made in Israel, Europe, Brazil, and the United States. The popular dark web news and index website DeepDotWeb DDW has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. Those visiting the website can see a message left by the FBI on its homepage stating that...

Download Kali Linux 2019.1 with Metasploit 5.0

By Waqas Download Kali Linux 2019.1 now! - This is the first major update for Kali Linux ever since version 4.0 was released in 2011. Kali Linux is one of the most popular Debian-based Linux distribution for advanced Penetration Testing and that is why the InfoSec community eagerly waits for its...

Hackers steal credit card data of 14,579 BevMo customers

By Uzair Amir A warning has been issued by the Concord, California-based alcoholic beverages retailer BevMo informing its customers about a data breach that its online store experienced between 2 August and 26 September. During the attack, credit card data of its customers was exposed. “BevMo tak...

Toyota’s PASTA- A car hacking tool to enhance automobile cybersecurity

By Waqas A team of security researchers working for the renowned automobile maker Toyota have developed a new car hacking tool. Dubbed as PASTA Portable Automotive Security Testbed with Adaptability, it is an open source tool created to help researchers identify the prevailing vulnerabilities in...

Third-Party Apps May Read Your Email: Learn How to Protect

By David Balaban Sad news about the unauthorized viewing of email messages by third-party application developers has alarmed Gmail users. It’s understood the Internet giant did not resort to ignoring the problem, the corporation provided detailed comments on possible exposure of the letters...

Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Hacked; SSNs of 143M Americans Stolen

By Waqas Another day, another data breach but this one will haunt This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Credit Reporting Firm Equifax Hacked; SSNs of 143M Americans Stolen...

Digital exchange joins law enforcement in hunt for WannaCry ransom bitcoins

By Waqas Patrick O’Neill, a journalist at CyberScoopNews, has claimed that since This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Digital exchange joins law enforcement in hunt for WannaCry ransom bitcoins...

Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked – 31 Million Impacted

By Waqas The RailYatri hack took place in December 2022, but the stolen data has only been leaked earlier today on a prominent hacker forum. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian Ticketing Platform RailYatri Hacked - 31 Million Impacted...

Hackers compromised IObit forum to spread DeroHE ransomware

By Waqas Over the weekend, Windows utility developer IObit was hacked to facilitate a widespread attack for distributing the DeroHE ransomware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers compromised IObit forum to spread DeroHE ransomware...

TeamViewer was Targeted by Chinese Hackers in 2016

By Ryan De Souza TeamViewer has only confirmed now that Chinese state-sponsored hackers targeted the company in 2016. The Germany-based company behind the world-famous remote desktop software TeamViewer has confirmed that in 2016 TeamViewer software was compromised. The confirmation comes right...

ProtonVPN Subscriptions Now Available on Firefox for $10

By Waqas Mozilla has announced that it will be launching an experimental feature in the new version of Firefox that will offer ProtonVPN subscriptions. The feature, however, will be accessible by users only after they subscribe for a monthly package. It is basically, a subscription-based VPN...

Steam fixes 10-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability

By Waqas A vulnerability in the Steam client was an open door This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Steam fixes 10-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability...

Austria seeks Interpol’s help to bust Bitcoin scammers who stole $115M

By Waqas Another day another Bitcoin scam in which unsuspected users have This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Austria seeks Interpol's help to bust Bitcoin scammers who stole $115M...

Wikileaks Exposes CIA’ 3 Linux/macOS Malware- Aeris, Achilles, SeaPea

By Uzair Amir We all know what CIA is capable of but what This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Wikileaks Exposes CIA 3 Linux/macOS Malware- Aeris, Achilles, SeaPea...

Flaw in Safari browser’s API implementation lets user files to be stolen

By Sudais Asif Being one of the major web browsers, Safari browser gets its fair share of scrutiny from cybersecurity professionals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaw in Safari browsers API implementation lets user files to be stolen...

Meet Retadup botnet that was infected by another malware

By Sudais Meet Retadup malware botnet that was infected by another malware - Avast and French authorities have now dismantled the nasty Retadup botnet. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meet Retadup botnet that was infected by another malware...

Security Basics for the Novice Online Traders

By David Balaban The popularity of online trading is growing and there is a need to always use the best security measures in order to protect your online wallets and investment portfolios. New types of fraud appear every day, so it is crucial to stay attentive in order to protect your hard-earned...

Email service provider loses 2 decades worth of data due to hack attack

By Waqas Famed secure email service provider VFEmail has become a victim of a hack attack by an unknown cybercriminal. The company claims that it has suffered a “catastrophic destruction” of its US servers and almost two decades of data and backups in only a few hours. The entire digital...

Hackers play PewDiePie ad on thousands of hacked Chromecasts & Smart TVs

By Waqas Hackers behind the hacking spree are urging users to change their router settings and subscribe to PewDiePie's YouTube. Last month, it was reported that a group of hackers compromised thousands of printers around the world to send printouts urging users to subscribe to Felix Kjellberg ak...

Sim Swapping Crypto Stealing Hackers Arrested by Turkish Police

By Waqas Eleven Turkish individuals have been arrested by Turkish police department for stealing cryptocurrency worth approx. $80,000 via Sim Swapping. Reportedly, the suspects tricked the phone providers into revealing the phone numbers of the victims and used the SIMs for performing 2FA...

Anonymous hacks Russian Govt website against ongoing censorship

By Waqas On May 10th, 2018, the online hacktivist group Anonymous conducted a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Anonymous hacks Russian Govt website against ongoing censorship...

Russia boots off DailyStormer and CloudFlare removes DDoS protection

By Waqas It looks like the racist and neo-nazi website DailyStormer has no This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia boots off DailyStormer and CloudFlare removes DDoS protection...

Healthcare Clinic Suffers Ransomware Attack; 300K Patients Impacted

By Waqas This without a doubt is the second largest health data This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Healthcare Clinic Suffers Ransomware Attack; 300K Patients Impacted...

Microsoft Confirms Two 0-Days Being Exploited Against Exchange Servers

By Deeba Ahmed The latest attack against Exchange servers utilizes at least two new flaws CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41082 that have been assigned CVSS scores of 6.3 and 8.8. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Confirms Two 0-Days Being Exploited Against Exchange Serv...

Accenture claims to fight off LockBit ransomware gang with backup

By Waqas The infamous LockBit ransomware gang launched a ransomware attack against global IT giant Accenture. Here's what the group claims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Accenture claims to fight off LockBit ransomware gang with backup...

3TB of clips from exposed home security cameras posted online

By Waqas These clips were recorded from home security cameras often known as IP cameras. Here's what was leaked online. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 3TB of clips from exposed home security cameras posted online...

Botnet found using YouTube to illegally mine cryptocurrency

By Sudais This time again, hackers have been found mining a popular yet anonymized cryptocurrency. Read more to know what these hackers are up to... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Botnet found using YouTube to illegally mine cryptocurrency...

Update Windows 10: 800 million devices at risk of critical vulnerability

By Uzair Amir According to Microsoft, unprotected servers can spread viruses and malware over the network without the user's interaction. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Update Windows 10: 800 million devices at risk of critical vulnerability...

Slack data breach: Company resets thousands of passwords

By Uzair Amir Slack data breach took place in 2015 but the company became aware of the incident recently through its bug bounty program. Slack has suffered a data breach in which thousands of users have been affected. As a result, the company is resetting passwords of thousands of impacted users...

Hackers hacked: Account hijacking forum OGUsers pwned

By Uzair Amir The stolen OGUsers database is available on RaidForums for download. On 12th May, hackers managed to steal the database of a famous hijacker forum called OGUsers. This forum is used by hackers and online account hijackers, which means that the hackers have now been given a taste of...

Firefox, Edge, Safari, Tesla & VMware pwned at Pwn2Own

By Waqas Pwn2Own 2019 has yet again proved that a secure system is nothing else but a myth. In its two days running, the contest has claimed many high-profile victims including the likes of Tesla, Firefox, and Safari. Pwn2Own is an annual hacking contest held in Vancouver alongside the CanSecWest...

Magecart hackers launched largest ever attack against Magento stores

By Waqas Around 1,904 individual online stores were hacked due to the outdated Magento 1 platform. Here's what happened. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Magecart hackers launched largest ever attack against Magento stores...

BusKill USB cable switches off your laptop in the event of theft

By Sudais Known as “BusKill Cable”, the main problem that it guards against is a so-called “snatch and run.” This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BusKill USB cable switches off your laptop in the event of theft...

Here is a list of top 25 worst passwords of 2019

By Waqas If your password is on the list, the risk of having your account hacked and identity stolen is high. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Here is a list of top 25 worst passwords of 2019...

Zerodium to pay up to $2.5 million for reporting 0-day Android exploits

By Uzair Amir Zero-Day Android exploits are now more valuable then iOS exploits. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zerodium to pay up to $2.5 million for reporting 0-day Android exploits...

Researchers exploit LTE flaws to send 50,000 fake presidential alerts

By Waqas Researchers managed to cover a 50,000 seat football stadium using only four malicious portable stations. A group of security researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder has published a paper detailing the findings of their latest research revealing that LTE vulnerabilities can he...

National Censorship: Pros and Cons

By David Balaban Is Internet filtering at the state level good or bad? As always, there are different opinions. I do not want to give a definite answer to this question now. On the one hand, the degree of filtering and the profile of filtering can be different, on the other hand, partly the answe...

Xbox Two vs PlayStation 5: Which console is winning the race of anticipation?

By Uzair Amir Excitement is mounting among gamers as Microsoft and Sony continue to tease tantalizing details of their upcoming next-generation console releases. The PlayStation 5 is expected to launch towards the end of 2020 and lead architect Mark Cerny has already revealed details of the...

Database with millions of Instagram influencers’ info leaked online

By Uzair Amir The leaked database was discovered on Shodan on May 14th. A huge online database containing private contact information including phone numbers and email IDs of roughly 50 million Instagram profiles including those of influencers and brands has reportedly been discovered by security...

Hacker unlocks vehicle for family who’d lost keys months ago

By Waqas Our world is full of good and bad people and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker unlocks vehicle for family whod lost keys months ago...