WiFi software management firm exposed millions of users’ data

By Waqas Brazil-based WiFi management software firm WSpot exposed extensive details of high-profile firms and millions of customers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WiFi software management firm exposed millions of users data...

High severity Intel chip flaw left cars, medical and IoT devices vulnerable

By Deeba Ahmed A vulnerability in Intel CPUs allowed an attacker with physical access to a device to gain enhanced privileges on the system. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: High severity Intel chip flaw left cars, medical and IoT devices vulnerable...

What is a data breach & how to prevent one?

By Owais Sultan What is a data breach? A data breach is a security lapse where a non-authorized person can assess sensitive information without authorization. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What is a data breach & how to prevent one?...

Apple AirTags can be used as trojan for credential hacking

By Waqas According to penetration tester and security researcher Bobby Raunch, Apple's AirTags can be used for credential hacking and data theft vectors. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple AirTags can be used as trojan for credential hacking...

Lithuania wants users to dump Chinese phones citing data collection

By Deeba Ahmed Lithuania Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones amid data security. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lithuania wants users to dump Chinese phones citing data collection...

Security tips – How to protect your online trading account

By Owais Sultan cybercriminals are targeting stock markets. Their modus operandi includes selling penny stocks from their account and purchase them from a hacked account. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Security tips - How to protect your online trading account...

How to Protect and Support a Remote Workforce

By Owais Sultan If you felt as though you could be doing more to support your own remote workforce, here are some tips and pointers you might want to consider. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Protect and Support a Remote Workforce...

SSID Stripping flaw lets hackers mimic real wireless access points

By Deeba Ahmed SSID Stripping has emerged as a significant threat because it impacts major platforms like MS Windows, macOS, Apple iOS, Ubuntu, and Android. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SSID Stripping flaw lets hackers mimic real wireless access points...

TikTok Global – Trump Demanded Full TikTok Ownership

By Uzair Amir How much do you know about the TikTok ban? Will, the United States take ownership rights? Can a VPN bypass the ban? Find out all about it here! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: TikTok Global – Trump Demanded Full TikTok Ownership...

Whitehat hacker bypasses SQL injection filter for Cloudflare

By Sudais Asif This was then subsequently reported to Cloudflare who fixed it in a few days. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Whitehat hacker bypasses SQL injection filter for Cloudflare...

Mozilla permanently shuts down Notes & Send over malicious use

By Waqas Reportedly, people were using these services for malicious purposes especially launching phishing and malware attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mozilla permanently shuts down Notes & Send over malicious use...

New credit card skimmers channel funds through Telegram

By Sudais Asif The technique focuses on using the famous messenger app Telegram for transmitting the stolen payment details. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New credit card skimmers channel funds through Telegram...

28,000 exposed printers hacked to highlight lack of printer security

By Waqas Researchers forced 28,000 printers worldwide to print out guidelines on printer security. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 28,000 exposed printers hacked to highlight lack of printer security...

Paytm Mall data breach – Hackers gain ‘unrestricted access’ into database

By Waqas A report that hackers are demanding ransom from Paytm Mall and selling its data on hacker forums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Paytm Mall data breach - Hackers gain unrestricted access into database...

24 Million Customers Affected after Experian Data Breach

By Deeba Ahmed Experian South Africa has confirmed the breach. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 24 Million Customers Affected after Experian Data Breach...

UFO VPN leaks database again; gets taken over & destroyed by hackers

By Sudais Asif UFO VPN was caught saving and leaking user logs despite complaining strictly no-log policy. Here's what happened now. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: UFO VPN leaks database again; gets taken over & destroyed by hackers...

Cloud hosting firm Blackbaud pays ransom after thwarting ransomware attack

By Deeba Ahmed Blackbaud claims it paid a ransom to protect customer data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloud hosting firm Blackbaud pays ransom after thwarting ransomware attack...

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...

US indicts WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for hiring Anonymous & LulzSec

By Waqas The US's list of accusations against Julian Assange doesn’t seem like ending anytime soon. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US indicts WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange for hiring Anonymous & LulzSec...

How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser

By Waqas Facebook did something unexpcted. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Facebook Helped FBI Capture a Notorious Child Abuser...

Busted: Man streamed “worst child abuse content ever seen”

By Deeba Ahmed Shockingly, the world’s sickest child abuser, a British man, will not spend a lot of time in prison. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Busted: Man streamed "worst child abuse content ever seen"...

DarkHydrus Phishery tool spreading malware using Google Drive

By Waqas DarkHydrus is back in action with a new variant of RogueRobin malware to target Middle Eastern Politicians by abusing Google Drive. The primary focus of cybercriminals nowadays is to use the infrastructure of genuine services in their attacks in order to prevent detection from security...

Malicious apps deploy Anubis banking trojan using motion detection

By Waqas Google has left no stone unturned in preventing malware and banking trojan from invading the applications uploaded on its official Play Store. Despite having anti-malware protection, shady applications somehow make it to the platform. In fact, malware developers have become so advanced i...

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...

Text Bomb Causing PS4 to Crash

By Uzair Amir Sony’s most prestigious gaming console till date PlayStation 4 or PS4 contains a bug that exploits and crashes the console through a text message. It is believed that malicious threat actors are sending infected messages to the console to crash it. Reddit is bursting with reports fr...

Meet GhostDNS: The dangerous malware behind IoT botnet targeting banks

By Waqas Security researchers at NetLab, a sub-division of the Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, have discovered a new, wide-scale, and very active malware campaign that has managed to hijack more than 100,000 home routers between Sept 21 and 27. A majority of routers almost 88% are located i...

Cloud data management firm exposes database with over 440M emails & IP addresses

By Waqas Data management software companies are mandatorily believed to be having perfectly capable of managing their own data. However, it turns out that some companies, the most popular ones too, struggle to do so. The well-known cloud data management firm Veeam has been in the news lately for...

A highly targeted malware campaign is spying on 13 iPhones in India

By Waqas A dangerous targeted mobile malware campaign has been identified by security researchers, which is believed to have been active since August 2015. Researchers claim that the malware is discovered to be spying on 13 specific iPhones in India, which hints at the fact that this is a highly...

Android devices since 2012 vulnerable to RAMpage vulnerability

By Waqas A group of security researchers from the University of Amsterdam, UC This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android devices since 2012 vulnerable to RAMpage vulnerability...

Police Dept loses years worth of dashcam video to ransomware

By Waqas The city of Atlanta Police department lost critical dashcam video This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Police Dept loses years worth of dashcam video to ransomware...

Localblox exposes personal data of millions of Facebook & LinkedIn users

By Waqas Facebook has been at the receiving end of backlash and This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Localblox exposes personal data of millions of Facebook & LinkedIn users...

Five year old vulnerability used for Monero mining on Linux servers

By Waqas A security vulnerability that is nearly 5 years old has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Five year old vulnerability used for Monero mining on Linux servers...

Fortnite accounts are being hacked to make fraudulent purchases

By Uzair Amir If you are a Fortnite player and hold a registered account This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fortnite accounts are being hacked to make fraudulent purchases...

Cyber Attack Disrupts Winter Olympics Website During Opening Ceremony

By Waqas The Winter Olympics Games Organizing Committee is investigating a cyber This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cyber Attack Disrupts Winter Olympics Website During Opening Ceremony...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Black Hat USA 2026: One GitHub Issue Could Compromise Major AI Coding Workflows

At Black Hat USA 2026, Novee found GitHub workflow flaws in Claude Code, Gemini CLI and Codex that enabled RCE, credential theft and agent control in pipelines...

Wordfence Finds Critical Backdoor in ARVE WordPress Plugin

A backdoored ARVE WordPress Plugin release could grant attackers administrator access with one token, but WordPress.org blocked automatic distribution to WordPress sites...

New Ubuntu Desktop Vulnerability Turns Local Access Into Root Control

A vulnerability in snap-confine lets an unprivileged user gain root access on affected Ubuntu Desktop systems. Install the latest snapd update to fix the issue...

LG Monitors Spotted Installing Adware-Like App on Windows PCs

Connecting certain LG monitors prompts Windows Update to install an LG app without consent, while the software runs at startup and displays McAfee trial adverts...

Microsoft Warns of GigaWiper Backdoor Built to Destroy Windows PCs

Microsoft details GigaWiper, a destructive Windows backdoor that can wipe disks, encrypt files and give attackers remote access to compromised systems globally...

VMware Licensing Changes and Their Impact on Infrastructure Modernization

Explore how VMware licensing changes are influencing infrastructure modernization, cloud strategy, and AI readiness, and what enterprises should evaluate next...

FortiBleed Credential Theft Connected to INC and Lynx Ransomware

FortiBleed, the Fortinet credential theft campaign, is now connected to INC Ransom and Lynx, with a Nextcloud zero-day vulnerability also under investigation...

Fake “Google Notes” Browser Extension Caught Swapping Crypto Wallet Addresses

McAfee says a Google Notes browser extension is replacing copied crypto payment details, putting wallet transfers at risk for Chrome, Brave, and Microsoft Edge users...

Handala Hacking Group Claims Breach of California Water Service

The Handala hacking group claims it has targeted California Water Service, leaking 5GB of customer database and GPS network files in its latest infrastructure attack...

New WordPress Malware Uses Steam Profile Comments to Hide C2 Instructions

GoDaddy researchers found WordPress malware using Steam Community profile comments to hide encoded command and control data, with nearly 1,980 sites affected...