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...

The Different Ways a Data Breach Can Impact Businesses

By Ryan De Souza According to a recent report from the Office for National Statistics ONS, cybercrime has risen by an incredible 63% and is primarily caused by malware and computer misuse. However, despite the real threat hackers pose to companies of all sizes, many businesses are failing to take...

Binance exchange hacked: Bitcoin worth $40.7M stolen

By Uzair Amir API keys and 2FA codes along with other sensitive data has also been stolen. Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world by volume, has become a victim of a massive data breach in which hackers stole roughly 7,000 bitcoin worth over $40 million. See: Bitcoin...

Executive hacked competitor’s website to steal students meal preferences

By Ryan De Souza Top Executive at Bay Area School Lunch Provider Arrested for Hacking into Competitor’s Website to Access Students Meal Preferences. Personal rivalry and competitiveness can compel people to get involved in all sorts of bizarre activities and the latest incident is clear proof of...

Freedom Mobile leaked millions of card data with CVV codes in plain text

By Uzair Amir The company claims it does not share user data with others but looks like it does. Another day, another data breach; this time an unprotected database has been discovered leaking personal and financial data of millions of Canadians. Identified by researchers at vpnMentor along with...

Chinese hackers accessed NSA hacking tools before Shadow Brokers leak

By Ryan De Souza Chinese hackers then used NSA’s hacking tools and technology to target American allies. Symantec researchers have discovered that in 2016, Chinese intelligence managed to repurpose hacking tools used by the National Security Agency NSA and exploit them to attack American private...

Israel claims to bomb Hamas’s cyber Ops HQ amidst uncertainties

By Ryan De Souza The Israel Defense Forces IDF has allegedly attacked a building that serves as the hub of Hamas’s cyber operations on Saturday. The IDF claims that it has bombed the building after carrying out an operation in collaboration with the Israel Security Agency Shin Bet and Military...

New Google Chrome mobile phishing scam can steal private data

By Uzair Amir Google Chrome’s mobile browser has been targeted with a relatively simple phishing technique by developer Jim Fisher. According to Fisher, the exploit involves tricking victims into handing over their private information by manipulating the trusted websites of the user. By using a...

Google will ‘auto-delete’ your location & web activity data

By Ryan De Souza The auto-delete feature will be available in the coming weeks. On Wednesday, Google announced that it will now allow users to automatically delete the old location history as well as web history that its services usually save. This will be done using the newly added feature calle...

New Electrum DDoS botnet steals $4.6M after infecting 152,000 hosts

By Ryan De Souza The majority of the bots are located in Brazil and Peru but the number of victims is constantly increasing across diverse regions. Threat actors who previously targeted cryptocurrency wallets through Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks have now launched another malware...

Sensitive data of 80 million US households exposed online

By Uzair Amir The 24 GB database was hosted on a Microsoft cloud server. Another day, another data breach; this time researchers have discovered an unprotected cloud repository containing personal and financial information of more than 80 million US households. This incident reminds us of two...

Change your password: Docker suffers breach; 190k users affected

By Uzair Amir Microsoft says its official Microsoft images hosted in Docker Hub have not been compromised. The company behind Docker, a computer program developed to manage operating-system-level virtualization has announced that it has suffered a data breach and as a result, one of Docker Hub...

Hackers targeting embassies with trojanized version of TeamViewer

By Ryan De Souza Researchers believe the trojanized version of TeamViewer is being spread by a Russian speaking hacker. The latest report from Check Point reveals that multiple embassies in Europe were targeted with a trojanized version of TeamViewer. The embassies affected in the latest wave of...

5 Cybersecurity Best Practices You Should Be Following Right Now

By Owais Sultan If you have a business and you don’t have an online presence, you’re handicapping yourself. That’s just how it is today. Without harnessing the power of the internet and social media, you’re losing out on a substantial number of customers. But putting yourself and your business ou...

How to Respond to a Cyber Attack on Your Business

By Ryan De Souza Cyber security affects businesses of all sizes, and in every industry. Today it is a board-level agenda item, which has been placed at number three on the Lloyds Risk Register 2013. When it comes to dealing with a cyber attack, every single person involved with the business shoul...

Watch: Hackers send explicit messages to riders on hacked e-scooters

By Uzair Amir Lime believes that hackers somehow managed to swap the audio files on eight of the e-scooters. Lime, a Brisbane-based scooter manufacturer, has been testing its E-Scooters on the streets of Brisbane but sadly, the gadgets are in the news for all the wrong reasons. Reportedly, eight...

7 Times Apple Watch Saved Lives

By Uzair Amir Who doesn’t like elegant watches, especially those which could literally save your life, right? There are several types of watches out there such as a divers watch, Mechanical Watch, and Chronograph Watch, etc. but the life saviors lately are powered with smart technology. In this...

Thousands of firms hit by Beapy malware using NSA hacking tools

By Ryan De Souza EternalBlue and DoublePulsar hacking tools are back in action. Symantec security researchers have identified that cybercriminals are still utilizing the classified exploits/hacking tools of the National Security Agency NSA, which were stolen about two years back. The new malware...

Ride-hailing app leaks personal data of millions of Iranians

By Ryan De Souza The ride-hailing app database was hosted on an insecure MongoDB server. Another day, another data breach - This time, security researchers have identified a ride-hailing app exposing personal data of 1 to 2 million Iranian drivers, thanks to an insecure MongoDB database. The...

Avengers: End Game leaked online soon after releasing in China

By Uzair Amir Avengers: End Game has been leaked online because why not? Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated flick ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and cybercriminals are trying their best to benefit from the movie’s...

DNSpionage group’s Karkoff malware selectively pick victims

By Ryan De Souza Karkoff creates a timeline of the command execution which can be "extremely" useful when responding to this type of threat. The IT security researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research team have discovered a new malware that has been developed by the threat actors behind the...

Hackers using Google Sites to spread banking malware

By Uzair Amir The IT security researchers at Netskope Threat Research Labs have discovered a new malware hosted on the Google Sites, a dedicated platform offered by Google for developing websites. Dubbed LoadPCBanker by researchers; the malware is actually an executable that is hidden inside a PD...

WiFi finder app exposes millions of WiFi network passwords

By Uzair Amir The app is called WiFi Finder - connect to hotspots. WiFi Finder, a popular and widely downloaded hotspot finder app designed for Android devices has been identified to be exposing passwords of WiFi networks for over two million networks. The exposed database was identified by GDI...

Bodybuilding.com suffers data breach; issues password reset for all users

By Uzair Amir Bodybuilding.com will contact all former and current users - The website has over seven million registered users. The world-renowned fitness platform Bodybuilding.com has suffered a data breach in which personal data of registered users has been accessed. The breach was identified i...

Wall Street market exit scam? Admins steal $30 million worth of crypto

By Uzair Amir Wall Street market vendors on the dark web are urging others not to deposit their coins. As you may know, a majority of the dark web users are migrating to the Wall Street marketplace after the closure of the Dream market. Initially, this migration was successful but now a significa...

Building a VPN for Mobile Devices at the Network Level

By David Balaban In 2019, there is still surprisingly little information about such an old, simple, convenient, and secure technology, as mobile VPN - Virtual Private Network. In this article, I will describe how you can provide access to your virtual private network to any device with a SIM card...

The Weather Channel goes offline after ransomware attack

By Uzair Amir The ransomware took The Weather Channel's live transmission offline for almost an hour. Another day, another ransomware attack; this time The Weather Channel suffered a powerful ransomware attack forcing its live TV telecast to go offline for 90 minutes. See: WannaCry hero MalwareTe...

WannaCry hero MalwareTech pleads guilty to writing banking malware

By Ryan De Souza MalwareTech is now facing 10 years in prison. In 2017, Marcus Hutchin who goes by the Twitter handle of MalwareTech halted the infamous WannaCry ransomware after registering its killswitch domain. As a result, Hutchin was hailed as WannaCry hero but in August the same year,...

Facebook: Storing Instagram passwords in plain text & harvesting your emails

By Uzair Amir Facebook stored millions of Instagram passwords in a readable format and asked users for their email's passwords for "verification." On 21st March, 2018, the social media giant Facebook admitted that it stored passwords of 600 million users including "tens of thousands" of passwords...

Never Forget That You Are Being Watched

By David Balaban What data do Facebook, Google, and mobile apps collect, do mobile carriers listen to your calls? Read this post and find answers to these and other privacy questions as well as get tips on how to protect your personal data. It has become known that information about 257,000...

Hackers exploiting unpatched Chrome bug to target 500M iPhone users

By Uzair Amir In this attack, eGobbler threat group is exploiting Chrome Sandboxing bug to target iOS devices in the US and EU. Malvertising campaigns, in which malware is distributed through advertisements, have become a common norm nowadays. But, the latest malvertising campaign that’s been...

Crooks are selling “Digital Doppelgangers” to bypass anti-fraud protection

By Waqas Financial Crimes to Reach an Unprecedented High by 2023 if Dark Web marketplaces like Genesis are allowed to Operate- Researchers Claim. According to the latest research from Juniper Research, cybercriminals have developed a wide range of advanced tools to help users evade machine...

Top 10 Best Anime Movie Sites 2019

By Zehra Ali Are you a fan of anime movies? Look no further, here is a list of best anime movie sites. Entertainment is a major part of our lives and the Internet is the biggest source for it these days. There are several websites such as YouTube, DailyMotion, and Vimeo, etc. offering movies and ...

Top VPNs found improperly securing cookies & tokens

By Uzair Amir VPN software programs of Palo Alto, Cisco, Pulse, and F5 don’t Store Session Cookies Securely- DHS. A warning has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security DHS regarding the unreliable nature of Virtual Private Network VPN programmes from several well-known VPN service...

Top The Pirate Bay Alternatives – Best Torrent Download Sites (2019)

By Waqas Looking for The Pirate Bay alternatives? You have come to the right place. The Pirate Bay TPB is one of the most visited torrent download websites in the world. However, lately, there has been an increase in its server downtime. Lately, the Dark web domain for The Pirate Bay is also...

Hackers post private data of thousands of Federal agents online

By Waqas The breach came after FBI-linked websites were hacked. Three websites belonging to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's FBI National Academy Association FBINAA were hacked apparently by three hackers after they managed to breach their security, steal and upload data online. Part of the...

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrested in London

By Uzair Amir The United States is now requesting the United Kingdom to extradite Julain Assange. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, 47, has been arrested by Met Police from the embassy of Ecuador in London after seven years of refuge over a now dropped case of sexual assault. The arrest took plac...

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’...

Best password managers for 2019

By Zehra Ali If you use the Internet, password managers should be a part of your online life as users are at high risk of cybercrime in this digital and technological era. Hackers are always looking for a way to access sensitive data of the vulnerable individual, and unfortunately, weak passwords...

2 students arrested for disrupting school WiFi to skip exam

By Waqas Two 14-year old 9th graders have been arrested by the police for disrupting the WiFi system of their school, Secaucus High School, Hudson County in March. According to reports, the students used an especially designed app to make the connection so overloaded with traffic that it became...

Hackers claims to steal 6 million Israeli voters data

By Carolina According to a report from Haaretz, a group of hackers has claimed to have compromised the database of Israeli voters on April 6, just a few days before the Knesset election, which is the name of Israel’s parliamentary or legislative election that will be held on April 9. The group ha...

Samsung Galaxy S10’ biometric sensor hackable with copy of owner’s fingerprint

By Waqas The fingerprint security feature of Samsung Galaxy S10 and S10+ has been hacked using only a 3D printer and printed fingerprint of the owner. The hack can be carried out without the presence of the actual owner since a printed copy of the fingerprints is used. When evaluated by security...

Cynet is Launching a Free Threat Assessment for Businesses

By Zehra Ali In the age of regular cyber attacks and constant digital threats, it’s no wonder that businesses find themselves spending more and more on defense. Cyber security spending by businesses climbed to $13 million per company in 2018, an increase of 12% on the previous year. It’s an...

How to identify & protect yourself from online dating scams

By Waqas The Internet is an addictive world due to its unlimited and lucrative opportunities for people from almost every facet of life. Some use the Internet to make money, some use it to keep in touch with their loved ones, and some to find love - and then there are those who use it for nefario...

New malware can modify CT and MRI scan results

By Waqas Call it killer malware? Israeli researchers have developed a new malware that highlights some very critical and dangerous security vulnerabilities in medical imaging equipment, which is commonly used to diagnose serious health conditions like cancer and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy HCM. N...

Top 10 VPN Services For 2019

By Zehra Ali VPN is a billion dollar industry and lately, it has become a vital part of users conscious about their online privacy - Here are the top 10 VPN services for 2019. If you are an Internet user, VPN should be part of your online life but choosing a reliable VPN can be a tough nut to...

Hard Times for Cryptojacking

By David Balaban What is Cryptojacking? It is an attack in which hackers secretly utilize the computing power of your device to mine cryptocurrency - The cybercrime climate is flexible enough to quickly adapt to new circumstances and trends. The fact that cryptocurrency markets skyrocketed in the...

Private data of 540 million Facebook users exposed in plain text

By Waqas Unprotected Amazon Web Services has a new victim and it's Facebook users. It’s just been a year since the Cambridge Analytics scandal made headlines the world in which Facebook failed to secure its users’ information. Now the cybersecurity firm UpGuard’s researchers have identified the...

2018’s Biggest Security Breaches and What to Worry about in 2019

By David Balaban The clock ticking its way to midnight. On New Year’s Eve, a lot of people hope only the best things will happen in 2019. There were though plenty of things to complain about last year. One of the biggest issues seemed to be the massive amount of security breaches involving digita...