Anonymous Hacks Roscomnadzor 820GB Worth of Data Leaked

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Anonymous, a collective of hackers and activists, reportedly hacked the Russian telecoms agency Roscomnadzor, which censors pirate sites and media. The breach leaked 820GB worth of data, which has yet to be analyzed. Anonymous claims it obtained 360,000 files from the servers. Although it’s too soon to know for sure, this hack may have revealed … Read more

Stats Widget Hacked in Attempt to Breach Russian Government Websites

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Russian authorities say they prevented a cyber-attack by fixing an exploited widget. The Russian Ministry of Economic Development, a state-run organization, developed the widget. On March 8th, it was hacked and installed on government websites. The authorities were quick to realize the threat and fix it. The attacks were quickly localized, but the incident resulted … Read more

Anonymous has conducted a hack of Russian state TV

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Anonymous has conducted a hack of Russian state TV in order to show the realities of the Ukrainian war. Vladimir Putin, through the use of propaganda, has been telling Russians that the invasion of Ukraine is a ‘special military operation’ and a peacekeeping exercise. Anonymous’ hacking has revealed this to be false, showing Russia’s harsh … Read more

Volunteer Hackers Unite on Ukraine Conflict With No One in Charge

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Hackers have been creating chaos all over the world, including Russia and Ukraine. Starting a week ago, they knocked Russian and Ukrainian government websites offline, defaced Russian media homepages, and graffitied antiwar messages throughout the country. Cyberattacks provoked by the war in Ukraine are unlike any previous conflict. There are hordes of cyberattackers waiting for … Read more

NVIDIA Passwords Leak Online Over 71,000 Employees Data Stolen

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The gang of hackers who stole a terabyte of data from NVIDIA, is threatening to release the company’s “most closely-guarded secrets” today if it does not meet their increasingly bizarre demands. The people behind HaveIBeenPwned.com, a website which tracks hacked accounts and leaked credentials, found that the hackers stole the 71,000 Nvidia employee credentials. The … Read more

hackers are exploiting corona-virus fears for cyber spying

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hackers are exploiting coronavirus fears for cyber spying State-sponsored hackers and criminals in China and around the world are targeting their victims using the ongoing coronavirus to hack and spy and their victims. These attacks are not limited to state-sponsored hacking. Hacking groups associated with the Chinese and Russian governments and other governments have recently … Read more

NordVPN admits that it was hacked – HackingVision

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NordVPN a well known company that offers VPN (Virtual Private Network) services has confirmed that it was hacked. NordVPN admitted that some of its servers had been breached last year in March 2018. The news comes after rumors surfaced that NordVPN’s servers had been hacked. Problems had first arisen when hackers discovered that NordVPN was … Read more

BriansClub Hacked Over 26 Million Credit and Debit Cards Leaked

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Infamous Website BriansClub Hacked Over 26 Million Credit and Debit Cards Leaked 26 Million Credit Debit Cards Leaked! 26 Million Credit Debit Cards Leaked: BriansClub an infamous underground website that sells stolen credit and debit cards has been hacked and over 26 million credit and debit card dumps have been leaked. Over a period of … Read more

Stylish turns out to be spyware

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Stylish turns out to be spyware   Recently the add-on Stylish was removed from Chrome’s, Firefox’ and Opera’s web stores. It turns out that there’s actually been spyware lurking in the code since January 2017, under its new owner SimilarWeb which bought Stylish in October 2016. This code has been sending off all browsing activity … Read more

Jeopardy Winner Pleads Guilty To Hacking Work Colleagues Email Accounts

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Jeopardy Winner Pleads Guilty To Hacking Work Colleagues Email Accounts Stephanie Jass 48 from Tecumseh Michigan, was a contestant on American TV game show Jeopardy that was created by Merv Griffi. Jass landed a winning streak in 2012 winning Jeopardy not once but seven times. Stephanie Jass winning streak record was beaten by Julia Collins in 2014. Stephanie … Read more

Norway Healthcare Data Breach, Up to 2.9 Million People Affected

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2.9 Million citizens of Norway are under a potential threat of identity theft. On Monday (15th Jan) the healthcare organization called Health South-East Regional Health Authority of Norway announced the data breach of nearly half of the country’s citizens. HelseCERT reported the Healthcare organization of suspicious behavior in the computer systems in the particular region. After conducting an … Read more

OnePlus Hacked: 40,000 Customers Affected by the Hack

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OnePlus releases an official note to confirm the Credit card data breach on their website “oneplus.net“. The breach has affected 40,000 customers in just 3 months. In their official note, they said the breach has affected 40,000 customers who made a transaction using their credit card between mid-November 2017 and 11 January 2018. The note … Read more

Skygofree – One of The Most Powerful Android Spyware

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With huge market comes huge risks too, Android is been always the preferred (affordable) connectivity device used by billions of people. With billions of people using androids, it attracts thousands of thieves(hackers) too. An android spyware and vulnerabilities are not so rare nowadays, vulnerabilities like Janus and spyware like Tizi are just two drops from the ocean of … Read more

Alert! Facebook Messenger Now Used For Spreading Cryptocurrency Mining Virus

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On 21st December, Security researchers at TrendMicro released a blog post explaining about a cryptocurrency mining virus dubbed as “Digmine“. The virus is spreading rapidly because it uses world’s most popular platform “Facebook Messenger” as the medium to spread. Digmine is a cryptocurrency mining virus targetting the users of Facebook Messenger’s Desktop/Web versions. So, if you are … Read more

Quantum Computing and Information Security

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Let us first focus on understanding what Quantum Computing refers to and why it is required. Let us have a brief look at working of a Classical Computer and Quantum Computer. The Working A classical computer is made up of very simple components doing simple operations, like representing data, means of processing data and the … Read more