New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Security researchers have tracked down activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers that are targeting several businesses and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States in an attempt to infect them with backdoor, banking Troja… Continue reading New Group of Hackers Targeting Businesses with Financially Motivated Cyber Attacks

Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content

An ex-Yahoo! employee has pleaded guilty to misusing his access at the company to hack into the accounts of nearly 6,000 Yahoo users in search of private and personal records, primarily sexually explicit images and videos.

According to an press note … Continue reading Former Yahoo Employee Admits Hacking into 6000 Accounts for Sexual Content

Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows

Google & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets. Continue reading Most hackers for hire are scammers, research shows

Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks

A team of security researchers has discovered several vulnerabilities in various implementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signature verification that could allow attackers to spoof signatures on over a dozen of popular email clients.

The affected e… Continue reading Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks

Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users’ Permission

Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder.

Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social network platform for their email account passwords to verify their identity?

At the time, it was suspected tha… Continue reading Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users’ Permission

Hackers Compromise Microsoft Support Agent to Access Outlook Email Accounts

If you have an account with Microsoft Outlook email service, there is a possibility that your account information has been compromised by an unknown hacker or group of hackers, Microsoft confirmed The Hacker News.

Earlier this year, hackers managed to… Continue reading Hackers Compromise Microsoft Support Agent to Access Outlook Email Accounts

T-Mobile Hacked — 2 Million Customers’ Personal Data Stolen

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