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The recent Dharma campaign by Iran-linked script kiddies shows that the ransomware is being spread not just by sophisticated, state-sponsored actors anymore. Continue reading Iran-Linked ‘Newbie’ Hackers Spread Dharma Ransomware Via RDP Ports
As hacking and gaming communities continue to intersect, some hackers are selling access to botnets and likely stolen Fortnite, Spotify, and other online accounts on Instagram. Continue reading Hackers Are Selling Botnets and Stolen ‘Fortnite’ Accounts Over Instagram
Think today’s hackers are only motivated by money? Think again. In the gaming world, there’s plenty of hacks-for-lulz on display. Continue reading Nintendo Switch hackers show hacking for mischief is alive and well
Nothing is free in this world.
If you are searching for free hacking tools on the Internet, then beware—most freely available tools, claiming to be the swiss army knife for hackers, are nothing but a scam.
For example, Cobian RAT and a Facebook hacking tool that we previously reported on The Hacker News actually could hack, but of the one who uses them and not the one you desire to hack.
Japanese authorities have arrested a 14-year-old boy in Osaka, a prefecture and large port city, for allegedly creating and distributing a ransomware malware.
This is the first such arrest in Japan which involves a Ransomware-related crime.
Ransomwar… Continue reading 14-Year-Old Japanese Boy Arrested for Creating Ransomware
A proliferation of cheap, easy-to-use hacking tools on the dark web is causing an increasing number of U.S. teenagers to commit computer crimes, according to FBI and Justice Department officials. Government lawyers are seeing such a noticeable spike in adolescent cases that reminds some of the late 1990s, when the term “script kiddies” was first coined. “When I first joined the computer crime prosecution business, you would have these grey haired lawyers who would talk about the 80s and 90s, when they were prosecuting like 13- and 16-year-olds but that [had] really dropped off,” said Josh Goldfoot, deputy chief of the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section. “The 16-year-olds are coming back as a threat because it’s so easy now on the other side to acquire this type of stuff.” Adolescent hackers are once again becoming common, Goldfoot expounded, because of greater accessibility to exploit kits online and more […]
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Last week the Dyn DNS DDoS took out most of the East coast US websites including monsters like Spotify, Twitter, Netflix, Github, Heroku and many more. Hopefully it wasn’t because I shared the Mirai source code and some script kiddies got hold of it and decided to talk half of the US websites out. A […]
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Researchers at Flashpoint said Friday’s DDoS attack against DNS provider Dyn was likely the work of script kiddies and not advanced attackers. Continue reading Dyn DDoS Work of Script Kiddies, Not Politically Motivated Hackers
Everybody take a deep breath. Continue reading These So-Called ‘ISIS Kill Lists’ Are a Great Reminder to Change Your Password