Cyber Crime

Massive hacking campaign on Joomla sites via recently patched flaws

Experts from the firm Sucuri observed a spike in the number of attacks in less than 24 hours after Joomla…

7 years ago

Young hacker arrested for disrupting 911 Service with a TDoS attack

An 18-year-old man from Arizona, Meetkumar Hiteshbhai Desai, was arrested this week because he is suspected for the severe disruption…

7 years ago

Crooks earned at least $1.35m with spamming campaigns

Authorities identified a man in Florida that powered spamming campaigns abusing an army of corporate servers and private email accounts.…

7 years ago

AV-TEST study sees search engine results even more poisoned with malicious links

According to a study published by the independent anti-virus testing outfit AV-TEST, the number of malicious search engine results has…

7 years ago

LDAP as attack vector could power Terabit-Scale LDAP DDoS Attacks

Security experts observed attackers launching a powerful LDAP DDoS, the new amplification method could peak Terabit-Scale attacks. LDAP DDoS attacks…

7 years ago

Exclusive: MalwareMustDie spotted a new IoT Linux/IRCTelnet malware made in Italy

Exclusive: The security researcher MalwareMustDie has found a new Linux/IRCTelnet malware- made in Italy - that aims IoT botnet connected…

7 years ago

Hacking back the Mirai botnet, technical and legal issues

Security researchers have found vulnerabilities in the source code of the Mirai botnet and devised a method to hack back…

7 years ago

Ukrainian hackers Cyber Hunta leaked emails of Putin’s Advisor

Hackers of the Cyber Hunta collective leaked thousands of emails allegedly stolen from the account of Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov. Last…

7 years ago

Crime doesn’t pay, Fappening hacker gets 18 months in jail

The person behind the Fappening case, Ryan Collins (36), received a lighter penalty than the five years prison initially on…

7 years ago

Hackers behind the BLACKGEAR espionage campaign now targets Japan

The threat actor behind the Blackgear cyber-espionage campaign that is targeting Japanese entities is the same that hit Taiwan in…

7 years ago

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