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‘The threat could be a large nation-state or a 12-year-old’ – so is weaponizing malware and sending it back the right tactic? Continue reading Return to sender: military will send malware right back to you
By Uzair Amir
An unknown hacking group has been targeting organizations in North
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By Owais Sultan
Nothing is surprising about Indians hacking Pakistani websites or vice
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By Owais Sultan
Nothing is surprising about Indians hacking Pakistani websites or vice
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pakistani Govt Portal Hacked to Play Indian National Anthem
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The U.S. military’s reported inability to effectively “drop cyber bombs” on the Islamic State is raising new questions about the military’s existing “cyber weapons arsenal,” a loosely defined collage of digital warfare capabilities shrouded in secrecy. Computer network attacks have been conducted by operators within the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, the military’s top cyber warfare unit, under the order of Joint Task Force Ares. While the two organizations are inherently aligned, the NSA and Cyber Command follow different missions and employ different capabilities. Very little is publicly known about either the intelligence community or U.S. military’s ability to conduct offensive cyber operations; the subject matter is generally considered classified if not highly sensitive. A leaked CIA document published by WikiLeaks in March and identified by CyberScoop provides a rare window into how analysts conduct cyber warfare operations; describing one instance in which an operator worked to remotely disrupt a […]
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By Salek Ahmed
The never ending cyber war between Iran and Saudi Arabia has reached a new height – Same goes for the use of Shamoon malware from Iran against the Kingdom. The renewed attacks have come after a four-year sabbatical with what seems like a newer, improved strain of the Shamoon malware virus. The Saudi government had issued a […]
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By Uzair Amir
The dreaded Shamoon malware is back to haunt Saudi Arabia; therefore, the government has wasted no time in issuing a warning alert to a number of organizations. This time Shamoon’s new variant Shamoon 2 has been identified to be circulating and affecting Saudi organizations, according to CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity technology company. Adam Meyers, CrowdStrike VP, […]
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By Waqas
A group of Pakistani hackers going by the online handle of Team Pak Cyber Attackers hacked and defaced the official Google Bangladesh domain Tuesday morning. The group left a deface page along with a message on the targeted domain taunting security measures implemented by Google. The Internet users in Bangladesh were shocked when they witnessed their search […]
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Ukraine’s national energy company has become the victim once again most probably of the malicious objectives of hackers who are hell bent on giving the citizens of Ukraine a glimpse of the Stone Age by making sure that power interruption keeps occurring. Ukrenergo, the national energy company, experienced power failure this Saturday. In a post […]
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By Uzair Amir
In a blog post by CloudFlare, it has been revealed that the US West Coast is likely to become the target of yet another huge DDoS attack but this time it will be conducted with a different botnet than Mirai that was using during Dyn DNS attack which forced sites like Twitter, Amazon, PayPal etc […]
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