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...

Wikileaks reveals pandemic malware for Windows developed by the CIA

By Jahanzaib Hassan In its latest release as part of the Vault 7 series, WikiLeaks has apparently leaked a document which consists information regarding a new malware dubbed Pandemic, which is another CIA-built hacking tool. According to the document: Today, June 1st, 2017, WikiLeaks publishes...

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...

Google: Its Tech Now Blocks 99.9% of Gmail Phishing and Spam Emails

By Jahanzaib Hassan After the effects of the phishing campaign that used Google Docs as a tool to attack, Google has launched a number of upgrades to Gmail and its browser so that users can be notified and warned of suspicious emails and websites that may contain malware. The new machine-learning...

Password manager “OneLogin” hacked; data stolen

By Waqas OneLogin, Inc., the developers of single sign-on and identity management for cloud-based applications has announced that its servers for the US region have been hacked and accessed by a third party. As a result; encrypted information related to its password management service OneLogin ha...

Secret Pentagon Files Left Unprotected on the Amazon Server

By Ali Raza Accidents happen to everyone but according to a recent report, this one is a pretty big one. Apparently, some of the confidential data related to the US military project was simply left completely unprotected on a server belonging to Amazon. The data included over 60,000 files with so...

Ransom Fail: Hackers Leak Thousands of Naked Photos of Plastic Surgery Patients

By Jahanzaib Hassan The Kaunas Lithuania-based Grozio Chirurgija clinics were recently hacked by a group called Tsar Team who leaked thousands of private photos of plastic surgery patients including naked photos of celebrities. What did the photos include? According to authorities, around 25,000...

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,...

Snake Malware Modified; OS X The Next Target

By Jahanzaib Hassan The security researchers at Fox-IT have discovered a modified version of the previously known snake malware. A version specifically designed to target MacOS. Still not sure what snake malware is? Well, it also goes by the name of Turla, Agent.BTZ and Uroburous. Sounds familiar...

New iCloud Phishing Scam steals credit card data, access device’ camera

By Waqas When it comes to phishing scams, the general concept is that cyber criminals will only send a link to trick users into logging in with their social media or email credentials. But since that is an old school trick, the malicious threat actors are aiming at much more than your Facebook or...

You are not alone; WhatsApp is down for many (Updated)

By Carolina If you are wondering whats going on with the popular messenger app WhatsApp then you are not alone because its service is down in many countries. Although it is unclear whats going on and why the service is down theres a massive number of users complaining on Twitter. WhatsApp users i...

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...

Super Free Music Player Android App Comes with Malware Infection

By Ali Raza A music app in the Google Play Store called Super Free Music Player turns out to be yet another malware-infected app that Google has missed. So far, between 5,000 and 10,000 people have downloaded it. The app was uploaded to the Play Store on March 31 this year, which means that it wa...

Unity 3D Forums Hacked by OurMine Hacking Group

By Waqas The OurMine hackers are back in the news again. This time the group hacked and defaced the official domain of Unity 3D Forums leaving a deface page along with a note over the weekend. The hack which took place on 30th April allowed the Saudi Arabia-based OurMine hacking group to...

Facebook Last Warning Phishing Scam Stealing Login, Credit Card Data

By Waqas Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most used social media networks with 1.86 billion monthly active users. Thats why its users are also under constant threat by hackers and cyber criminals. Recently, we discovered a phishing scam targeting Facebook users by tricking them into giving away...

A $22 Radio device to crack car’s security system

By Jahanzaib Hassan Cracking the wireless security systems of cars has been done in the past several times, but now researchers of Qihoo 360 showed that it’s a piece of cake if you have the right device. For better or worse, researchers of a Beijing-based security firm- Qihoo 360 built a gadget...

Flickr’ Account Takeover Vulnerability Patched, Researcher Gets $7k Bounty

By Jahanzaib Hassan A security researcher named “Michael Reizelman” privately disclosed a serious vulnerability in Flickr and earned a bounty of $7,000 in the process. A few days back, Michael spotted a critical flaw in the multimillion-image and video hosting website-Flickr through Yahoo’s...