Over 900,000 emails from Russian official media are said to have been exposed by a cyber gang. Hundreds of thousands of emails from Russia’s largest state media business the State Television and Radio Broadcasting Corporation of Russia (VGTRK). Have allegedly been released by a gang of hackers who claim to be affiliated with Anonymous. The … Read more
We live in the most advanced times human civilization has ever known so far. At the same time, the recent coronavirus pandemic isolated us from each other, pulling us back for a little while. Still, it’s a modern world, after all, so we managed to get things back on track using computers and digital technology. … Read more
Cyber security is one of the vital elements of the modern world dominated by computer and digital technology. At the same time, it’s one of the most demanded areas of computer science, with cyber security specialists earning quite considerable amounts. At the same time, such a specialist must walk the path of a true computer … Read more
According to a revelation by Bleeping Computer, Mailchimp, an email marketing provider, was hacked on March 26th. When a customer support tool was hacked, the organization became aware of the hostile occurrence. Mailchimp was bought by Intuit, a financial software company, in September 2020. Mailchimp says it was hacked. According to Siobhan Smyth, their chief … Read more
For fun and profit, I’ve been participating in some CTF Capture the Flag challenges recently. I came in third place and am quite pleased with my performance. Allow me to take you through some of the CTF challenges in which I have participated. Official PDF Report Hogwarts Recruitment for Cyber Staff This was a … Read more
Remote attackers might use the Brokenwire exploit to disrupt electric vehicle charging. According to a new study from the University of Oxford and Armasuisse S+T, a mechanism for attacking a common charging system has been discovered, which might cause significant issues for electric vehicles. The “Brokenwire” strategy compels the automobile to cancel its charging session … Read more
For 15 years, supply chain issues in the PHP package management PEAR went unnoticed. PEAR was vulnerable to attack due to a cryptographic vulnerability and a problem in an out-of-date dependency. According to security experts, attackers could have caused havoc on the PHP ecosystem by exploiting a pair of long-standing vulnerabilities in package management PEAR … Read more
A Belarusian threat actor that is known as Ghostwriter (aka UNC1151) has been observed leveraging a browser-in-the-browser technique. This method simulates a browser window in order to launch convincing social engineering campaigns. The Ghostwriter hacking group has used this technique, which masquerades as a legitimate domain by simulating a browser window over the website, to … Read more
A threat actor of likely Pakistani origin has been attributed to another Windows-based remote access Trojan named CrimsonRAT. The malware is at least six months old and was first reported back in late June. The name Transparent Tribe might sound familiar to some of you. Cisco Talos has been investigating this group for a while … Read more
US Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights received 91000 complaints of HIPAA violations, out of which 22000 were penalized, between the years 2003 to 2013. After the digitization of the health sector, the patients’ sensitive data became more vulnerable to theft. This is why these regulations are really important. And since … Read more
A decentralized VPN is better than conventional VPNs. A decentralized VPN, or dVPN, is an internet-based software application that connects two or more It’s key to note that a dVPN is different from a traditional VPN because it’s not based on a centralized server. Now let’s talk about the advantages of dVPNs relative to traditional … Read more
What is VPN? A virtual private network, or VPN, is an essential tool to have when using public Wi-Fi. This creates a private browsing session, so you can protect yourself and your company from eavesdroppers. This is especially important when entering personal information on the internet. VPNs can protect your IP addresses from being leaked … Read more
What would happen if a software maintainer added malicious code to a popular library? To answer this question, we can look to the latest software supply-chain attack. A malicious code was hidden in node-ipc to replace files with a heart emoji and a peacenotwar module. A developer has taken a tool that he created and … Read more
Digital gold is currently in big demand, as so are the tools to exchange and store it. Still, not all wallets are the same and offer equally good usage conditions. If you want to create XMR wallet and enjoy excellent functionality, take a look at this short read. A Monero wallet captures your attention just … Read more
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
Security researchers have disclosed a new type of attack that amplifies the original packet by a ratio of more than 4 billion to one. The attack is distributed and uses a single packet as a starting point. A DDoS attack from a single packet is made possible by a flaw in about 2,600 Mitel MiVoice … Read more
Is IP Address Grabbing Illegal? IP addresses are the way computers on the internet know where to go and how to talk to each other. It’s easy to forget that, as a user, you have one too. IP addresses are just numbers, but they do a lot of important work all day long. Our system … Read more
Ubisoft, a video game company, reported on Thursday that a “cyber security incident” had disrupted services and games temporarily. The company did not specify who might have been responsible for the glitch, but the hacking group that hacked Nvidia took credit on Friday evening. Ubisoft is a French video game developer based in Montreuil, France. … Read more
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
A new swarm of malicious attacks has been detected targeting Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula to deploy a remote access trojan. The success of these attacks have been attributed to the state-sponsored threat actor known as MuddyWater. Muddywater, a hacking entity, is full of resources and they use them in many different ways. They use … Read more