It seems like a day can’t pass by without any situation where accounts on social media networks are hacked. In the new and upcoming story, 100 million users’ accounts of the Russian popular version of Facebook, VK.com are currently being traded on the underground market. LeakedSource also released obtained data that they had managed to … Read more
Researchers have discovered a new family of malware which is designed for the sole purpose of disrupting some core industrial systems. Security experts over at FireEye said that they had discovered malware which was created so as to disrupt the industrial control systems which were running the Siemens control system environments. The malware was called … Read more
A Facebook-inspired social media network has been built in North Korea. The news of the new social media network started surfacing after researchers at the firm Dyn had stumbled upon the new social media network on the Internet rather than on North Korea’s internal system called Kwangmyong. The design is believed to be nothing but … Read more
Microblogging platform and social media network, Tumblr was hacked 3 years ago, but the company just discovered it now. The breached data which contained email addresses and passwords for its users was seen on the underground Internet market. Troy Hunt, a security researcher, recently got hold of the security breach data. He is well known … Read more
After Adobe recently patched the CVE-2016-4117 flaw that had been terrorizing users out there, other hackers have found ways to incorporate the exploit that was patched into some of their cyber attack tools, and now they have started to infect devices with the result of the tools they are using. FireEye, a security research company, … Read more
Hackers generally like to attack WordPress sites, and thanks to a Check Point report, websites can now work out how the hackers operate as they attack WordPress websites. After analyzing telemetry data which was received from its security products and perusing through various attacks that WordPress plugins encountered the security firm discovered that the cyber … Read more
WhatsApp users are being warned that they do not fall into tricks of being persuaded into downloading ‘WhatsApp Gold.’ The ‘WhatsApp gold’ is nothing more than a malware infested exclusive version of the app. Several of the app’s users reported having received messages which were encouraging them to make the jump to the WhatsApp Gold … Read more
Whistleblower Edward Snowden has come out advising smartphone users from engaging with the new Google messaging app that they unveiled at the just ended I/O conference. The new app, Allo, has been termed as a snooping technique and bot for Google by most privacy experts. Allo is an end to end encryption app that Google … Read more
After news that LinkedIn accounts from a hack that happened four years ago in 2012 had resurfaced and were on the dark web market people were shocked. What people had thought to be nothing more than 6.5 million hacked accounts back in 2012 turned out to be more than that? It turned out that the … Read more
A hacking forum, Nulled.IO has been hacked, with the leaked data showing that about 800,000 messages from the forum have been leaked. 536,000 of the users is also public for everyone to see on the public Internet. The forum has a tagline, “expect the unexpected,” but I don’t think they were expecting this one. The … Read more