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The United States Justice Department has charged three Chinese nationals for allegedly hacking Moody’s Analytics economist, German electronics manufacturer Siemens, and GPS maker Trimble, and stealing gigabytes of sensitive data and trade secrets.
Acc… Continue reading U.S. Charges Three Chinese Hackers for Hacking Siemens, Trimble & Moody
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Blockchain startups are cropping up left and right aiming to disrupt existing services and business models.
These range from the trivial to potentially game-changing solutions that can revolutionize the internet as we know it. … Continue reading Gladius Shows Promise in Utilizing Blockchain Tech to Fight Hackers
Remember the hacker who claimed to have breached FireEye late July this year?
That alleged hacker has been arrested and taken into custody Thursday by international law enforcement, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia informed the media.
Late July, the hacker, whose name has not yet been disclosed, managed to hack the personal online accounts of a Senior Threat Intelligence Analyst at Mandiant—a
Continue reading ‘LeakTheAnalyst’ Hacker Who Claimed to Have Hacked FireEye Arrested
Last month the popular torrent website The Pirate Bay caused some uproar by adding a Javascript-based cryptocurrency miner to its site with no opt-out option, utilizing visitors’ CPU power to mine Monero coins in an attempt to gain an extra source of r… Continue reading D-Link MEA Site Caught Running Cryptocurrency Mining Script—Or Was It Hacked?
Ever since the launch of Windows 10, Microsoft has been heavily pushing its Edge browser, claiming it to be the best web browser over its competitors like Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Google Chrome in terms of speed and battery performance.
However, Mic… Continue reading Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome Mid-Presentation After Edge Kept Crashing
Just a year after Mirai—biggest IoT-based malware that caused vast Internet outages by launching massive DDoS attacks—completed its first anniversary, security researchers are now warning of a brand new rapidly growing IoT botnet.
Dubbed ‘IoT_reaper,’ first spotted in September by researchers at firm Qihoo 360, the new malware no longer depends on cracking weak passwords; instead, it exploits
Continue reading New Rapidly-Growing IoT Botnet Threatens to Take Down the Internet
Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execute code on the affected systems with elevated privileges.
Discovered by Venustech ADLab (Active-Defense Lab) resear… Continue reading Yet Another Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation Bug Discovered
A Taiwanese bank has become the latest to fall victim to hackers siphoning off millions of dollars by targeting the backbone of the world financial system, SWIFT.
SWIFT, or Society for Worldwide Interbank Telecommunication, is a global financial messa… Continue reading Hackers Steal $60 Million from Taiwanese Bank; Two Suspects Arrested
Popular instant messaging app WhatsApp has already been struggling for its existence in China ever since July when Chinese government blocked its users from sending photos and videos over the app.
Now, it appears that China has largely blocked Faceboo… Continue reading China Bans WhatsApp Messenger
Botnets, like Mirai, that are capable of infecting Linux-based internet-of-things (IoT) devices are constantly increasing and are mainly designed to conduct Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, but researchers have discovered that cybercrimina… Continue reading Linux Trojan Using Hacked IoT Devices to Send Spam Emails