ProofPoint uncovered a new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe targeting Indian diplomatic and military entities. A new cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Transparent Tribe is targeting diplomats and military personnel in India. The researchers at Proofpoint who have uncovered the hacking campaign confirmed that threat actors used a number of hacking techniques to hit the […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs CTB-Locker for Websites is spreading in the wild German authorities approve the use of home-made Federal Trojan Security Affairs newsletter Round 49 â News of the week A DHS report confirms the use of BlackEnergy in the […]
Journalist at Gawker received an email by alleged members of Anonymous containing recordings from Donald Trump ‘s voicemail inbox. The Anonymous hacking collective continues its personal battle against Donald Trump, this time hacking the voicemail of the presidential candidate. On Thursday, Gawker received an anonymous email containing recordings from Donald Trumpâs voicemail inbox. The recordings […]
The Romaniaâs High Court of Cassation and Justice ruled that the popular Romanian hacker Guccifer will be extradited to the United States. Marcel Lazar Lehel it the real name of the name of the notorious hacker Guccifer who breached the online accounts of several public figures between December 2012 and January 2014. The popular hacker […]
Two major high street banks will change security procedures after journalists  demonstrated how to carry out SIM swap fraud attacks. The BBC reported that two major high street banks will adopt new security measures to protect their customers. The decision to modify the security procedures follows the scoop made by two journalists from BBC Radio […]
An expert presented his study on hijacking high-end drones commonly deployed by government and law enforcement agencies. The researcher Nils Rodday presented at the annual RSA conference in San Francisco the findings of its study on hacking drones. Rodday, who currently at IBM, has conducted his research while working as a graduate researcher at the University of Twente […]
A group of security researchers has devised a new attack scheme to steal cryptographic keys from both Android and iOS devices. A team of security researchers from Tel Aviv University, Technion and The University of Adelaide has elaborated a new attack scheme to steal cryptographic keys from both Android and iOS devices. Last month, the same team […]
Real pirates have hacked into a shipping company to locate valuable cargo before hijacking vessels in targeted attacks. Technology meets Piracy. The technology is enlarging our surface of attack in a dramatic way, every company in every industry is potentially a target. Let’s discuss today of a singular case that demonstrates it, pirates have hacked into […]
According to a study conducted by the experts at Arbor’s ASERT Team a day attack with a DDoS booter cost $60 and can cause $720k in damage. We have discussed several times about the concept of cybercrime-as-a-service, today I’ll show you a case related the offer for rent of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for less than US$60 per day. […]
Adobe announced that it will release security updates next week to patch vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products for Windows and Mac. Adobe has announced yesterday, March 8, that it will release security updates next week to patch vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader products for Windows and Mac. We are speaking about critical vulnerabilities that fortunately are currently […]