Malaysia extradited a hacker charged by DoJ with stealing the personal data of US members and passing it to the ISIS. A former computer science student accused of supporting the ISIL terrorist group has arrived in the US to face charges. The former computer science student Ardit Ferizi is charged with hacking crimes and providing support to […]
Developers of OpenSSL issued a patch that fixes a high-severity vulnerability that allows attackers to decrypt secure traffic. The development team at the OpenSSL has issued a security patch to fix a flaw, coded as CVE-2016-0701, that could be exploited by hackers to decrypt secure traffic. The flaw was reported on January 12 by Antonio Sanso […]
The British branch of the HSBC bank has suffered for the second time in a month a cyber attack that brought its services offline. It’s happened again, HSBC customers were not able to access the online services of the bank due to a DDoS attack that hit the financial institution. “HSBC UK internet banking was attacked this morning. […]
The APT group behind the attacks against critical infrastructure in Ukraine is spreading BlackEnergy malware through specially crafted Word documents. Malicious campaigns leveraging the BlackEnergy malware are targeting energy and ICS/SCADA companies from across the world. The threat actors behind the recent attacks based on the popular malware are now targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine. In […]
The ISIS radical group is trying to infiltrate the Indian hacking community by offering money to hack government websites. 30,000 people on social media have been already contacted by the group. Members of the ISIS are willing to pay Indian hackers to hack into government websites and gain access to sensitive documents. The radical organization […]
The cPanel Inc. company that manages the popular web hosting account management tool is warning customers about a possible data breach occurred over the weekend. According to the cPanel firm customers’ account information may have been compromised, hackers tried to access a database containing users’ data, including names, salted passwords, and contact information. cPanel Inc. added that […]
ENISA has issued the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 a document that synthesizes the emerging trends in cyber security I’m very happy to announce the publication of the annual ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 (ETL 2015), this is the fifth report issued by the European Agency. The ENISA Threat Landscape 2015 summarizes top cyber threats, experts have identified […]
The Israeli Public Utility Authority is suffering one of the largest cyber attack that the country has experienced, Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday. The Israel’s Minister of Infrastructure, Energy and Water, Yuval Steinitz, told CyberTech 2016 attendees in Tel Aviv that the Israeli Public Utility Authority suffered a severe cyber attack. […]
The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is probing US Government Agencies over use of backdoored Juniper equipment. A number of US Government Agencies are concerned about the use of Juniper firewalls affected by the recently uncovered backdoor. The U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has sent letters to dozens of government agencies and departments asking […]
According to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 the Chinese APT group Codoso has been targeting organizations in various industries in a new wave of cyber attacks. The group of experts at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 have uncovered a new cyber espionage operation conducted by the Chinese AT Codoso (aka C0d0so0 or Sunshop Group). The Codoso hacking crew has been […]