DNA contractor data breach exposed OKC Police’s rape kit information

By Deeba Ahmed The data breach took place in November 2021 but the details of it have only been revealed this… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DNA contractor data breach exposed OKC Police’s rape kit information...

Phishing scam: NFTs Worth $1.7M Stolen from OpenSea Users

By Deeba Ahmed OpenSeas CEO Devin Finzer has denied the claims that a vulnerability in their smart contract was exploited to… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Phishing scam: NFTs Worth $1.7M Stolen from OpenSea Users...

$3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from crooks tied to 2016’s Bitfinex hack

By Waqas The US Department of Justice DoJ has confirmed seizing $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin in what could be… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: $3.6 billion worth of Bitcoin seized from crooks tied to 2016s Bitfinex hack...

Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo hit by DDoS attack

By Waqas The "heavy" DDoS attack on GiveSendGo took place when the platform started collecting donations for Freedom Convoy 2022… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo hit by DDoS attack...

BRATA Android malware factory resets phones after stealing funds

By Waqas The new variant of BRATA malware is also capable of GPS tracking and keylogging. A malware that was… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BRATA Android malware factory resets phones after stealing funds...

DDoS attacks on Minecraft event crippled the internet of a European country

By Waqas The series of DDoS attacks took place during a live online gaming event titled "SqiudCraft" inspired by Netflixs… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: DDoS attacks on Minecraft event crippled the internet of a European country...

2-year prison for pervert who hacked webcams to spy on underage girls

By Deeba Ahmed Robert Davies was also one of the customers of now seized login credentials selling site WeLeakInfo. A Byron… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 2-year prison for pervert who hacked webcams to spy on underage girls...

N Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges

By Waqas Experts believe North Korean hackers are keeping the stolen funds as a long-term investment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: N Korean hackers stole $1.7 billion from cryptocurrency exchanges...

Top 5 macOS Monterey Issues You Might Need to Fix

By Owais Sultan If you have recently started using macOS Monterey here are some of the issues and their solutions you need to be aware of. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top 5 macOS Monterey Issues You Might Need to Fix...

Hackers actively exploiting 0-day in Ubiquitous Apache Log4j tool

By Waqas Apache has released Log4j version 2.15.0 to address the RCE vulnerability and users are urged to apply the update ASAP. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers actively exploiting 0-day in Ubiquitous Apache Log4j tool...

VPS Hosting Vs. Dedicated Servers – Which Is Better?

By Owais Sultan When you’re an owner of a particular brand or service, it is highly likely you’ll create a website that will serve as an advertisement for everything that you provide. If done the right way, as time goes by, this site is supposed to attract lots of new visitors. If that happens, y...

“Get Your Free Omicron PCR test” is the latest Omicron phishing scam

By Deeba Ahmed The latest Omicron phishing scam is currently targeting unsuspecting users in the United Kingdom. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: “Get Your Free Omicron PCR test” is the latest Omicron phishing scam...

Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats

By Waqas The FBI has categorically denied sending spam emails from its server, which according to reports, hit 100,000 inboxes. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker accessed FBI server to send fake email threats...

How to Securely Access Remote Desktop?

By Owais Sultan Since remote desktop access allows a device to be accessed from anywhere globally over the public internet, security is an important consideration. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Securely Access Remote Desktop?...

Researcher found 70% Wi-Fi networks in Tel Aviv are hackable

By Waqas While examining Wi-Fi networks in Tel Aviv, Israel, 70% or around three-quarters of home and small-scale office Wi-Fi network passwords were vulnerable to hacking using inexpensive hacking tools. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher found 70% Wi-Fi networks...

White House Dark Web Marketplace Shuts Down its Operations

By Waqas The White House Dark Web Marketplace says “We are retiring!” meaning the marketplace is shutting down after years of a successful run. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: White House Dark Web Marketplace Shuts Down its Operations...

Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day

By Waqas According to local Russian media, these DDoS attacks originated from several different countries including India, China, Brazil, Russia, and the US. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian electronic voting system hit by 19 DDoS attacks in one day...

Why torrenting on Elon Musk’s Starlink is not a good idea?

By Waqas Starlink sends piracy warnings to users urging them to avoid downloading any illegal content by using their service. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why torrenting on Elon Musks Starlink is not a good idea?...

Tianfu Cup 2020: Hackers pwn Windows, iPhone, Chrome for big bucks

By Sudais Asif In total, ethical hackers earned $1.2 million in the bug bounty competition. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tianfu Cup 2020: Hackers pwn Windows, iPhone, Chrome for big bucks...

US jails Russian hacker for 8 years over botnet, bank fraud

By Deeba Ahmed The hacker participated in a sophisticated scheme to steal, exchange sensitive financial, personal data, causing a loss of $100 million to the victims. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: US jails Russian hacker for 8 years over botnet, bank fraud...

Researcher retrieves $300,000 worth of Bitcoin from an encrypted Zip file

By Waqas An investor had locked $300k worth of Bitcoin in an encrypted Zip file and forgot its password. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Researcher retrieves $300,000 worth of Bitcoin from an encrypted Zip file...

Maze Ransomware operators hack LG Electronics stealing critical data

By Sudais Asif The infamous Maze Ransomware operators have also leaked sample data. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Maze Ransomware operators hack LG Electronics stealing critical data...

Hackers leak 296 GB worth of data from US Police & Fusion centers

By Sudais Asif The data has been published by a group named "Distributed Denial of Secrets DDoSecrets." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leak 296 GB worth of data from US Police & Fusion centers...

How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires

By Waqas We all know who the big 5 tech firms are. Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Facebook, and Google are... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How Big Tech Leveraged Agile Principles to Build Empires...

The Pirate Bay malware can empty your Cryptocurrency wallet

By Waqas The malware was found hidden in the Windows shortcut file on The Pirate Bay. A new malware has been identified in popular torrent forum The Pirate Bay. The malware is discovered in a shortcut file for a movie and it has the capability to manipulate web pages along with changing the...

Abine Blur Password Manager exposed data of 2.4M users

By Waqas The password manager exposed the data due to a misconfigured S3 bucket. The Blur privacy and password management service developer Abine has issued a security notice this Monday stating that a file containing important customer data was accidentally exposed to the internet. Originally, t...

Another MongoDB database exposes personal data of 66M users

By Waqas Another day, another data breach - This time, the IT security researcher at HackenProof have discovered a massive trove of personal data of over 66 million users exposed online due to an unprotected MongoDB database. In October and November 2018, HackenProof's security researcher Bob...

Hackers deface Saudi ‘Davos in the Desert’ site against Khashoggi’s death

By Waqas The official website of Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative ‘Davos in the Desert’ was hit by a cyber attack in which hackers defaced its homepage to protest the brutal murder of The Washington Post's journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and killings of innocent civilians in Yemen...

Hackers illegally selling stolen Fortnite accounts & botnets on Instagram

By Waqas It is not happening on Dark Web but Instagram. Instagram has become much more than a platform to share your traveling, culinary, or fitness-related experiences, but a thriving portal for selling stolen accounts. Reportedly, hackers are using Instagram to sell access to botnets as well as...

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...

Augusta University Health data breach: Private data of over 417,000 individuals exposed

By Uzair Amir Georgia-based Augusta University Health has admitted for becoming the victim of a data breach back in 2017. In the data breach, personal data of more than 417,000 patients, students, and faculty members got leaked. The breach resulted from a phishing attack. Augusta University...

Popular Android/iOS apps & Extensions collecting highly personal user data

By Waqas In May this year, HackRead reported how an Israeli company Unimania was caught collecting personal, Facebook and browsing data of users through Android apps and Chrome extensions. Now, researchers have discovered another "spyware" campaign aiming at stealing personal data of users but th...

Data breach: Millions of SingHealth users affected including Singapore’s PM

By Waqas SingHealth, the largest health care institution in Singapore has suffered a massive data breach in which records of over 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth's polyclinics and clinics between from May 1, 2015, to July 4 this year - One of the victims of the breach is the Prime...

A bug stored Twitter passwords in plain text so change your password

By Carolina Twitter, the social network, and online news giant is sending notifications This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A bug stored Twitter passwords in plain text so change your password...

Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam

By Waqas Would you believe that the verification program approved by Twitter This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers bought Twitter ads to run verified badge phishing scam...

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...

MacUpdate Hacked to Distribute Mac Cryptocurrency Miner

By Waqas Another day, another cryptocurrency miner targeting users - This time, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: MacUpdate Hacked to Distribute Mac Cryptocurrency Miner...

6 years jail time for ‘one of the largest’ dark web drug dealer

By Carolina The 40-year-old David Ryan Burchard from Merced, a dark web vendor This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 6 years jail time for ‘one of the largest dark web drug dealer...

Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps Found on Google Play Store

By Uzair Amir After non-stop malware attacks, Android users have a couple of new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Bitcoin Wallet Apps Found on Google Play Store...

Android Flaw Lets Attackers Capture Screen and Record Audio

By Waqas If your Android smartphone has Lolipop, Nougat or Marshmallow, then This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Android Flaw Lets Attackers Capture Screen and Record Audio...

Fake Cryptocurrency Apps on Play Store Stealing User Data

By Waqas The US-based cryptocurrency exchange service Poloniex, which happens to be This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Cryptocurrency Apps on Play Store Stealing User Data...

Flaw in Adobe Flash Player Used to Install FinFisher Spyware

By Waqas A serious flaw has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Flaw in Adobe Flash Player Used to Install FinFisher Spyware...

After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins

By Uzair Amir It has only been a week since The Pirate Bay This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: After The Pirate Bay, Showtime Websites Also Found Mining Cryptocoins...

Overwatch DOWN as Blizzard servers facing technical problems

By Agan Uzunovic The official Twitter account of Blizzard Customer Support has revealed that This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Overwatch DOWN as Blizzard servers facing technical problems...

IsraBye Anti-Israeli wiper malware locks data that can’t be restored

By Waqas Researchers of an Israeli cyber security firm Intezer have discovered a dangerous This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IsraBye Anti-Israeli wiper malware locks data that cant be restored...

Hooligans Biker Gang Arrested for Hacking and Stealing 150 Jeep Wranglers

By Jahanzaib Hassan Now in the custody of the FBI, a gang calling itself the Hooligans Motorcycle Gang, had launched an operation in South California whereby they stole over a hundred Jeep Wranglers and moved them to Mexico where they would either sell the entire jeep or sell its parts. The...

Insignary Closes SBOM Accuracy Gap With Binary-Level Clarity for Regulatory Risk

Toronto, Canada, 6th July 2026, CyberNewswire...

Anonymous-Linked Hacktivist Aubrey Cottle Jailed Over Texas GOP Cyberattack

Canadian hacktivist Aubrey Cottle, known as Kirtaner and once linked to Anonymous, gets 18 months for a 2021 Texas GOP website cyberattack...

Microsoft June 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 206 Flaws and 3 Zero-Days

Microsoft’s June 2026 patch Tuesday resolves 206 vulnerabilities, including 3 critical zero-days and severe 9.8 CVSS kernel, network and HTTP.sys flaws...