Everything You Must Know About Common Venmo Scams

By Waqas Venmo scams take several forms and shapes, and potential scammers are easier to pinpoint than others. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Everything You Must Know About Common Venmo Scams...

Major Magecart skimming attack hits 8 local US government sites

By Sudais Asif A major Magecart attack has hit the websites of 8 cities across 3 States... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Major Magecart skimming attack hits 8 local US government sites...

Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack

By Waqas The DDoS attack on the bank was recorded in packets-per-second Pps and... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mainstream European bank hit by largest ever PPS based DDoS attack...

Domestic violence assistance app breached placing victims at risk

By Sudais Asif The app provides news stories sourced from Yahoo and is focused on... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Domestic violence assistance app breached placing victims at risk...

Hackers posing as LinkedIn recruiters to scam military, aerospace firms

By Waqas If you are on LinkedIn, watch out! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers posing as LinkedIn recruiters to scam military, aerospace firms...

Cyber attack cripples networks in city of Pensacola days after shooting

By Waqas The city's Mayor Grover Robinson has acknowledged that an extensive cyber attack on Friday crippled several City services in Pensacola. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber attack cripples networks in city of Pensacola days after shooting...

Nasty Android & iOS malware found using govt surveillance tech

By Uzair Amir The latest findings of security researchers at security firm Lookout and privacy firm Security Without Borders are not only groundbreaking but concerning. Reportedly, there is now an iOS version of a dangerous strain of Android malware, which is based on the ‘lawful intercept’...

It only takes a Skype Call to Unlock an Android Handset

By Waqas A 19-year old bug hunter has identified a flaw in the Android version of Microsoft’s Skype app, which is exploited can help the attacker access various app functions without needing to go through passcode verification for unlocking the phone. Once the phone is unlocked, the attacker can...

School hackers steal personal data of half a million students & staff

By Waqas A school district in the United States has suffered a cyber attack in which unknown hackers managed to steal a trove of personal data belonging to over 500,000 staff and students. The targeted school was San Diego Unified School District in California whose database was accessed by hacke...

Nokia exposes passwords & secret access keys to its internal systems

By Waqas Another day, another data breach - This time, multinational tech giant Nokia has been caught exposing highly sensitive data of industrial nature that would have put its internal security at risk. The data was discovered by the director of the cyber risk research team at Hacken and...

New email extortion scam warns “Pay $4,000 or a hitman is coming for you”

By Carolina In a new extortion scam, a cybercriminal is sending threatening emails to unsuspecting users asking them to pay a whopping $4,000 in Bitcoin or wait to be executed by a hitman. The email extortion scam surfaced on the Internet a few days ago and is currently arriving in victim's inbox...

Big Data and Cybersecurity: Opportunity or Threat?

By Marie Fincher Suppose you write for a living. You write articles and blog posts for a number of clients. In the course of that writing, you have to do a lot of research, accessing data and information from all over the web. The inevitable happens. You get hacked or you pick up a virus...

Russian Cybercriminal Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet

By Uzair Amir A Russian national namely Peter Yuryeich Levashov has pleaded guilty to operating the Kelihos botnet, which was used to launch a huge spamming and credential stealing campaign across the globe. Levashov, a 38-year old resident of St. Petersburg, Russia, was presented before a...

You are not alone; Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are down for many (Updated)

By Waqas You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook and its subsidiaries Instagram and WhatsApp Messenger are down in many countries around the world for almost an hour starting from 10 pm UK time. The reason for this outage is currently unknown and there has been no statement from...

Flaw in Swann smart security cameras allows access to user’s live stream

By Waqas Security cameras and other IoT devices have been frequently identified to be incompetent and plagued with a variety of built-in flaws that render them vulnerable to exploitation by hackers. The same has been proven yet again by a team of security researchers from Pen Test Partners...

Ubisoft Games Hit by Massive DDoS Attacks

By Waqas France based video game publisher Ubisoft suffered a series of massive DDoS attacks distributed denial-of-service. As a result, several Ubisoft gaming servers including Ghost Recon Wildlands, For Honor and Far Cry 5 were facing connectivity issues. The DDoS attacks began on Tuesday, July...

America’s largest diagnostics service LabCorp suffers massive data breach

By Waqas Private records of millions of patients could be at risk following the breach. Security experts have been warning about expected cyber-attacks on healthcare industry since last year’s huge hack-attack on Florida based Medicaid in which private data of nearly 30,000 patients were exposed…...

Facebook collected users’ call and SMS logs with “their permission”

By Waqas Facebook is in hot waters for the last couple of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook collected users' call and SMS logs with "their permission"...

Authorities shut down Luminosity RAT used by buyers in 78 countries

By Waqas The popular Luminosity RAT has been shut down by authorities This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Authorities shut down Luminosity RAT used by buyers in 78 countries...

Fileless WannaMine Cryptojacking Malware Using NSA Exploit

By Waqas Forget WannaCry and welcome WannaMine, a fileless cryptojacking malware using This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fileless WannaMine Cryptojacking Malware Using NSA Exploit...

McAfee’s ClickProtect Apparently Infected Devices with Banking Malware

By Waqas According to a French researcher, the renowned antivirus vendor McAfee This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: McAfee’s ClickProtect Apparently Infected Devices with Banking Malware...

Student Arrested For Using Keylogger and Changing Grades 90 Times

By Uzair Amir An ex-wrestler and student of the University of Iowa is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Student Arrested For Using Keylogger and Changing Grades 90 Times...

jQuery Blog Gets Hacked – Hackers Compromise CoinHive’s DNS

By Waqas In two different incidents, security of high profile platforms was This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: jQuery Blog Gets Hacked Hackers Compromise CoinHives DNS...

Hackers can hack your kid’s smartwatch and track their location

By Carolina With smartwatches designed especially for kids being available now, parents This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers can hack your kids smartwatch and track their location...

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak Launches ‘Woz U’ Online Tech Education Platform

By Waqas Steve Wozniak nicknamed The Woz known as a coding genius and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak Launches Woz U Online Tech Education Platform...

Update your phone: Avoid being Pwned by bug residing in WiFi chip

By Waqas We all use wireless network; it makes internet surfing hassle-free This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Update your phone: Avoid being Pwned by bug residing in WiFi chip...

Indian Biometric System Data leaked; over 130 M people could be affected

By Jahanzaib Hassan The personal identifiable information of people in the wrong hands could cause a major havoc, and this could happen pretty soon in India. According to the reports, the government sites supposed to protect the user data are instead, leaking it! Names, addresses, date of birth,...

Shodan’ Malware Hunter to Expose Command & Control Centers of Botnets

By Jahanzaib Hassan Recorded Future, a threat intelligence company together with Shodan, which is an internet search engine connecting services to internet devices, have created an online crawler which they call the Malware Hunter. What does it do? The Malware Hunter is a program that sends out...

Amazon Kindle E-Reader: Worth It, and How to Afford More Books?

See whether an Amazon Kindle is worth buying, how it compares with other e-readers, and practical ways to read more books without overspending each month today...

Suspected Cyberattack Sends Fake Emergency Alert to Phones Across Brazil

Brazil’s alert system was taken offline after a fake emergency alert reached phones, with officials investigating a suspected cyberattack and security failure...

Fake npm Packages Impersonate PostCSS Tool to Steal Chrome Passwords

JFrog warns of malicious npm packages that mimic PostCSS tooling, drop a Windows RAT, and target Chrome-stored passwords through a staged infection setup route...

Salesforce Disables Klue Integration After OAuth Token Theft Hits Customer Data

Icarus extortion group used a legacy Klue Battlecards credential to bypass security and steal bulk Salesforce records from affected companies...

How to Turn Images into Animated Videos with AI: A Wondershare Filmora Guide

This article was created in collaboration with Wondershare...

Instagram Glitch Reportedly Exposed Contact Info of Zuckerberg and Other Users

Instagram glitch exposed Mark Zuckerberg’s email addresses and phone number, plus contact details of other top users, through a password reset flaw...

Atlas Menu Data Breach Exposes 64,000 GTA V and CS2 Cheat Service Users

Atlas Menu Data Breach exposes 64,000 GTA V and CS2 cheat service users, leaking emails, IPs, support tickets and hashed passwords...

Fake Purchase Order Emails Spread Fileless PureLogs Malware via RAR Archives

Hackers are using fake purchase order emails and process hollowing to deploy fileless PureLogs malware to steal Windows users' browser, crypto, and Discord data...

Trojanized Gemini and Claude Installers Target Developers Via SEO Poisoning

Cybercriminals are using SEO poisoning and fake Gemini and Claude installer sites to infect developers with fileless malware and steal data...

FBI Chief Kash Patel’s Clothing Store Hacked in ClickFix Infostealer Attack

Hackers compromised FBI Chief Kash Patel’s clothing store in a ClickFix attack that tricked macOS users into installing infostealer malware...

FBI Warns of Kali365 Phishing Service Targeting Microsoft 365 Account

FBI warns of Kali365, a PaaS scam kit that lets cybercriminals bypass MFA and hijack Microsoft 365 accounts without passwords...

Banana RAT Malware in Fake Invoices Hits Customers at 16 Brazilian Banks

Banana RAT malware hidden in fake invoices and security update screens targets customers at 16 Brazilian banks stealing data with QR fraud...

New AI-Powered Bluekit Phishing Kit Targets Major Platforms with MFA Bypass Attacks

Bluekit Phishing Kit is a new PhaaS tool that targets major platforms, using AiTM techniques to steal session data and bypass MFA protections...

Security Risk Advisors Purple Team Participants Can Now Earn CPE Credits

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Hacker Leaks 2.3M Wired.com Records, Claims 40M-User Condé Nast Breach

A hacker using the alias "Lovely" has leaked what they claim is the personal data of over 2.3…...

Auth Bypass Flaw in Service Finder WordPress Plugin Under Active Exploit

An Authentication Bypass CVE-2025-5947 in Service Finder Bookings plugin allows any unauthenticated attacker to log in as an administrator. Over 13,800 exploit attempts detected. Update to v6.1 immediately...

SatanLock Ransomware Ends Operations, Says Stolen Data Will Be Leaked

SatanLock ransomware gang shuts down after weeks of attacks and plans to leak stolen victim data. Group linked to Babuk-Bjorka and GD Lockersec families...

Popular Chrome Extensions Found Leaking Data via Unencrypted Connections

Popular Chrome extensions exposed user data by sending it over unencrypted HTTP, raising privacy concerns. Symantec urges caution for users...

Fake AI Video Tool Ads on Facebook, LinkedIn Spread Infostealers

Mandiant Threat Defense uncovers a campaign where Vietnam-based group UNC6032 tricks users with malicious social media ads for…...

19-Year-Old Admits to PowerSchool Data Breach Extortion

A 19-year-old college student faces charges after pleading guilty to cyber extortion targeting PowerSchool, exposing data of 60…...

DDoSecrets Adds 410GB of TeleMessage Breach Data to Index

DDoSecrets indexes 410GB of breached TeleMessage data, including messages and metadata, from hack tied to unsecured Signal clone used by US government officials...

Firefox Tests AI-Powered Perplexity Search Engine Directly in Browser

Mozilla Firefox experiments with AI-powered Perplexity Search Engine in its address bar for version 139, signalling a potential…...