Radio Station Broadcast Cold War Era Messages Despite Being Non-operational

By Carolina Now, this is one such creepy news that has all This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Radio Station Broadcast Cold War Era Messages Despite Being Non-operational...

A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage

By Waqas Willem Westerhof, a cybersecurity researcher at Dutch security firm ITsec, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage...

Man implants microchip in his hands to open doors & unlock car with ease

By Carolina Who Need Keys when We have Human Implantable Technology- British This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man implants microchip in his hands to open doors unlock car with ease...

A Reddit User Has Leaked Upcoming Episode 4 of ‘Game of Thrones’

By Waqas The Game of Thrones is one of the most popular HBO This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Reddit User Has Leaked Upcoming Episode 4 of Game of Thrones...

WannaCry hero arrested For “creating and distributing Kronos trojan”

By Waqas A couple of hours ago HackRead reported that Marcus Hutchins, a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WannaCry hero arrested For “creating and distributing Kronos trojan”...

Hero Researcher Who Halted WannaCry Ransomware Arrested by FBI

By Waqas An IT security researcher going by the Twitter handle of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hero Researcher Who Halted WannaCry Ransomware Arrested by FBI...

Someone DDoSed Chinese Telecom Firm For 11 Days

By Waqas It seems like cyber criminals have taken the challenge to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone DDoSed Chinese Telecom Firm For 11 Days...

Vault 7: CIA’ Dumbo Project Hijacking Webcams and Microphones

By Waqas The Vault7 saga is far from over, and every passing This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vault 7: CIA’ Dumbo Project Hijacking Webcams and Microphones...

Pakistani Govt Portal Hacked to Play Indian National Anthem

By Owais Sultan Nothing is surprising about Indians hacking Pakistani websites or vice This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pakistani Govt Portal Hacked to Play Indian National Anthem...

Amazon Echo Can Be Hacked to act as a Surveillance device

By Waqas Taking over an IoT Internet of Things device is nothing new This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Amazon Echo Can Be Hacked to act as a Surveillance device...

HBO hackers upload Games of Thrones episodes & other data on their site

By Carolina On 31st July, it was reported that HBO Home Box This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: HBO hackers upload Games of Thrones episodes other data on their site...

Svpeng Android Banking Trojan Tweaked with Keylogger Feature

By Waqas With every passing day and every single hack attack, hackers This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Svpeng Android Banking Trojan Tweaked with Keylogger Feature...

Popular Chrome extension hacked to deliver adware

By Uzair Amir Copyfish extension of Google Chrome lets users extract textual content This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular Chrome extension hacked to deliver adware...

Dutch Police Nabs Romanian Gang for Stealing $590K worth of iPhones

By Carolina Dutch Police are quite active these days, a couple of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dutch Police Nabs Romanian Gang for Stealing $590K worth of iPhones...

HBO Hacked – Upcoming Game of Thrones Episodes and Data Leaked

By Carolina If you are a fan of Game of Thrones here This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: HBO Hacked Upcoming Game of Thrones Episodes and Data Leaked...

Dutch police share list of identified, active, and arrested Hansa vendors and buyers

By Waqas A couple of weeks ago, AlphaBay and Hansa, two of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dutch police share list of identified, active, and arrested Hansa vendors and buyers...

Airborne Drones can be hijacked using $15 BBC’ Micro:bit

By Uzair Amir Security Expert Showed Way of ‘Weaponizing the BBC Micro Bit’ This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Airborne Drones can be hijacked using $15 BBC Micro:bit...

Feds Seize BTC-E exchange website – CoinBase suffers DDoS attacks

By Waqas A couple of days ago it was reported that the 38-year-old Russian This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds Seize BTC-E exchange website CoinBase suffers DDoS attacks...

‘Ghost Telephonist’ Attack Exploits 4G LTE Flaw to Hijack Phone Numbers

By Waqas According to UnicornTeam, a group of Chinese researchers from countrys This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ‘Ghost Telephonist’ Attack Exploits 4G LTE Flaw to Hijack Phone Numbers...

For hackers at Defcon hacking US voting machines was a piece of cake

By Waqas The Democratic party in the United States along with some This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: For hackers at Defcon hacking US voting machines was a piece of cake...

Pre-installed Trojan in Cheap Android Devices Steal Data, Intercept Chats

By Waqas Android devices are one of the most vulnerable mobile OS This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pre-installed Trojan in Cheap Android Devices Steal Data, Intercept Chats...

Apple has removed all major VPN apps from Chinese App Store

By Carolina China is well known for its online censorship and surveillance This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Apple has removed all major VPN apps from Chinese App Store...

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...

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...

Watch: Hackers take over Tesla Model X; control brakes and doors

By Waqas The hackers from Keen Security Labs, a part of Chinese Internet giant Tencent This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch: Hackers take over Tesla Model X; control brakes and doors...

How A Coffee Machine Infected Factory Computers with Ransomware

By Waqas Its no surprise that the Internet of Things IoT devices This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How A Coffee Machine Infected Factory Computers with Ransomware...

Watch: Researcher hacking, unlocking a smart gun with $15 magnets

By Waqas A $1500 smart gun developed with the main objective of This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Watch: Researcher hacking, unlocking a smart gun with $15 magnets...

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...

Hackers can take over Car Wash, trap you and smash your vehicle

By Waqas It is understandable to receive Internet of Things IoT related This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers can take over Car Wash, trap you and smash your vehicle...

BTC-e exchange’ owner arrested over money laundering accusation

By Waqas A 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik who also happened to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BTC-e exchange owner arrested over money laundering accusation...

China arrests 11 hackers for infecting 250M devices with Fireball malware

By Waqas Law enforcement authorities in China have arrested eleven hackers suspected This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: China arrests 11 hackers for infecting 250M devices with Fireball malware...

Italian Banking Giant UniCredit Hacked; 400,000 Customers Impacted

By Waqas UniCredit, an Italian global banking, and financial services company have announced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Italian Banking Giant UniCredit Hacked; 400,000 Customers Impacted...

6 billion records hacked in 2017 so far; ransomware victims paid $25 million

By Waqas With every passing day, hackers and cyber criminals are becoming This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 6 billion records hacked in 2017 so far; ransomware victims paid $25 million...

CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices

By Waqas Kaspersky Lab has identified the presence of a backdoor designed This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CowerSnail Backdoor Targeting Windows Devices...

Adobe to Completely Disable Flash Player by 2020

By Uzair Amir Adobe Flash has been in the news for all the wrong reasons lately, and it won’t be an overstatement that Flash Player is software that we love to hate. It has been receiving backlash from internet users for being resource sensitive and incompatible with smartphones apart from being...

Relax: Microsoft is NOT Killing Paint App

By Carolina Earlier yesterday news broke out citing that Microsoft is killing its Paint program for Windows and in the upcoming update for Windows 10 the program will be no longer available. But now, the company has rubbished the reports and said that its not killing the Paint app rather making i...

Hackers Demand Banks $315k Ransom or Face DDoS Attacks

By Waqas Armada Collective, a group of online attackers, is demanding a ransom payment of $315,000 from South Korean banks In the case of refusal, the group has threatened the banks with a series of massive Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. The threats came days after South Korean web...

Massive Goldeneye Ransomware Attack Hits Users Worldwide

By Waqas Computer systems around the world have been hit with a new ransomware malware called Goldeneye, a variant of Petya ransomware. Its targets are governments and businesses; infecting computers and files to lock out users and demanding $300 in Bitcoin to regain access. Upon infecting a syst...

8Track Hacked: 18M accounts from music social network site stolen

By Waqas A Dark Web hacker going by the online handle of nclay is claiming to have hacked the popular Internet radio and social networking website 8Track.com and has stolen 18 million accounts 18,674,447 of its registered users. The hacker tells HackRead that the website was hacked earlier this...

3 Ways Corporations are Keeping Track of Data Breaches

By Waqas It seems like every other day; we see a story on the news about the latest major data breach that has compromised the personal and financial records of hundreds and thousands of unsuspecting customers. Its even more frightening to think about how many unknown data breaches might have...

Pro-ISIS group hacks Ohio Governor’ site with anti-Trump message

By Waqas Team System DZ, a pro-ISIS Daesh hacking group from Algeria is back in the news. This time the group has targeted the government of United States and defaced several Ohio State websites including the official website of Governor John Kasich. The hackers left a deface page along with a...

Fake Pornography App Infecting Devices with Android Ransomware

By Jahanzaib Hassan Lukas Stefanko, a researcher at ESET security, recently discovered a ransomware that goes by the name of Koler to be affecting Android users based in the US through adult-themed websites and a fake PornHub app. Not a new threat The ransomware is not new, and according...

Google to stop scanning user emails for Gmail ads

By Jahanzaib Hassan Diane Greene, the founder of VMware Inc. and the board member at Google revealed that Google will now stop analyzing user’s personal emails for targeted advertising purposes. Gmail As you may know, Gmail users encounter a number of ads based on their emails content. That is, t...

UK Parliament Under “Sustained and Determined” Cyber Attack

By Waqas The computer systems of UK parliament has suffered a massive cyber attack forcing the staff to quit their operation. The reports about attacks came on Friday night. However, MPs Member of Parliament were locked out from their parliamentary email accounts on Saturday. Those familiar with...

Facebook’s new feature to prevent misuse of profile pics

By Waqas The social media giant Facebook is introducing a new feature for users in India which will help them protect their online privacy by preventing others from misusing their profile picture. The feature is called Profile Picture Guard and is being rolled out after security and privacy...

Someone leaked 32TB of Windows 10 internal builds and source code

By Waqas It looks like Microsoft is in trouble again. This time not for its critical vulnerabilities in Windows operating system but for a massive data leak in which 32TB of highly sensitive Windows 10 related data has been dumped online. According to a report from TheRegister, it is believed tha...

Man Accidentally Destroyed Production Database on First Day of His Job

By Waqas We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are fatal ending up with devastating consequences just like one of those Amazon engineers whos typo error caused a major service outage worldwide. But then theres this man /cscareerthrowaway567 who recently posted on Reddit explaining that he...

Hackers Behind Jaff Ransomware Selling Victims’ Data on Dark Web

By Jahanzaib Hassan The dark web marketplaces and undergrown marketplaces are full of vendors selling databases, weapons, illegal drugs and malicious software. Now security researchers have discovered yet another ransomware malware not only selling victims data but also selling them online...

‘Fireball’ Malware Infected 250 Million Mac and Windows Devices

By Jahanzaib Hassan Since the spread of WannaCry ransomware attack the cyber security community is doing whatever it takes to identify new threats against unsuspecting users. The recent discovery by security researchers is a threat to both Windows and Mac users. Checkpoint has recently revealed a...

“Good hackers” took over billboard to send security warning

By Waqas When it comes to taking advantage of vulnerabilities the WannaCry ransomware attack is the latest example of it where hackers used Server Message Block protocol SMB vulnerability in Windows OS and infected computers in more than 100 countries. But then some good guys do good things just...