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Three young hackers who were sentenced late last year for creating and spreading the notorious Mirai botnet are now helping the FBI to investigate other “complex” cybercrime cases in return to avoid their lengthy prison terms.
Paras Jha, 21 from New J… Continue reading Mirai Botnet Creators Helping FBI Fight Cybercrime to Stay Out of Jail
The Russian man who was accused of operating the infamous Kelihos botnet has finally pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal court.
Peter Yuryevich Levashov, 38, of St. Petersburg, Russia, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in U.S. federal court in Connecticut to c… Continue reading Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Operating Kelihos Botnet
Despite having proper security measures in place to protect the driving systems of its cars against cyber attacks, a team of security researchers discovered a way to remotely hack a Tesla Model S luxury sedans in less than two seconds.
Yes, you heard … Continue reading Tesla Model S Hack Could Let Thieves Clone Key Fobs to Steal Cars
Apple has removed almost all popular security apps offered by well-known cyber-security vendor Trend Micro from its official Mac App Store after they were caught stealing users’ sensitive data without their consent.
The controversial apps in question … Continue reading Apple Removes Several Trend Micro Apps For Collecting MacOS Users’ Data
British police have arrested a 19-year-old teen who is an alleged member of Apophis Squad cybercriminal group responsible for making hoax bomb threats to thousands of schools and airlines; and DDoSing ProtonMail and Tutanota secure email services.
Geo… Continue reading 19-Year-Old Hacker Arrested Over Making Hoax School and Flight Bomb Threats
Air Canada has confirmed a data breach that may have affected about 20,000 customers of its 1.7 million mobile app users.
The company said it had “detected unusual log-in behavior” on its mobile app between August 22 and 24, during which the personal … Continue reading Air Canada Suffers Data Breach — 20,000 Mobile App Users Affected
T-Mobile today confirmed that the telecom giant suffered a security breach on its US servers on August 20 that may have resulted in the leak of “some” personal information of up to 2 million T-Mobile customers.
The leaked information includes customer… Continue reading T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers’ Personal Data Stolen
A former NSA contractor, who pleaded guilty to leaking a classified report on Russian hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election to an online news outlet last year, has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison.
Reality Winner, a 26-… Continue reading NSA Leaker ‘Reality Winner’ Gets More Than 5 Years in Prison
Facebook yesterday removed its mobile VPN app called Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store after Apple declared the app violated the iPhone maker’s App Store guidelines on data collection.
For those who are unaware, Onavo Protect is a Facebook-owned Vi… Continue reading Apple Forces Facebook VPN App Out of iOS Store for Stealing Users’ Data
Semmle security researcher Man Yue Mo has disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the popular Apache Struts web application framework that could allow remote attackers to run malicious code on the affected servers.
Apache Struts is… Continue reading New Apache Struts RCE Flaw Lets Hackers Take Over Web Servers