A team of academic researchers—who previously made the headlines earlier this year for uncovering severe security issues in the 4G LTE and 5G networks —today presented a new attack called ' ReVoLTE ,' that could let remote attackers break the en...
Thursday, August 13, 2020
New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls #Security
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
A New vBulletin 0-Day RCE Vulnerability and Exploit Disclosed Publicly #Security
A security researcher earlier today publicly revealed details and proof-of-concept exploit code for an unpatched, critical zero-day remote code execution vulnerability affecting the widely used internet forum software vBulletin that's already un...
Monday, August 10, 2020
TeamViewer Flaw Could Let Hackers Steal System Password Remotely #Security
If you are using TeamViewer, then beware and make sure you're running the latest version of the popular remote desktop connection software for Windows. TeamViewer team recently released a new version of its software that includes a patch for a s...
Friday, August 7, 2020
Capital One Fined $80 Million for 2019 Data Breach Affecting 106 Million Users #Security
A United States regulator has fined the credit card provider Capital One Financial Corp with $80 million over last year's data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 100 million credit card applicants of Americans. The fine wa...
Friday, July 31, 2020
EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who're wanted by the FBI #Security
The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and th...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Industrial VPN Flaws Could Let Attackers Target Critical Infrastructures #Security
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered critical vulnerabilities in industrial VPN implementations primarily used to provide remote access to operational technology (OT) networks that could allow hackers to overwrite data, execute malicious co...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
Undetectable Linux Malware Targeting Docker Servers With Exposed APIs #Security
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a completely undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to stay under the radar and targets publicly accessible Docker servers hosted with popular cloud platforms, including AWS, Az...
Monday, July 20, 2020
21-Year-Old Cypriot Hacker Extradited to U.S. Over Fraud and Extortion Charges #Security
The United States Department of Justice has extradited two criminals from the Republic of Cyprus—one is a computer hacker suspected of cyber intrusions and extortion, and the other is a money launderer with known connections to the terrorist org...
Thursday, July 16, 2020
A New Flaw In Zoom Could Have Let Fraudsters Mimic Organisations #Security
In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint today disclosed details of a minor but easy-to-exploit flaw they reported in Zoom, the highly popular and widely used video conferencing software. The latest Z...
Friday, July 10, 2020
Unpatched Critical Flaw Disclosed in Zoom Software for Windows 7 #Security
A zero-day vulnerability has been discovered in Zoom video conferencing software for Windows that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on a victim's computer running Microsoft Windows 7 or older. By the way, if someone is still usin...
Saturday, July 4, 2020
Critical RCE Flaw (CVSS 10) Affects F5 BIG-IP Application Security Servers #Security
Cybersecurity researchers today issued a security advisory warning enterprises and governments across the globe to immediately patch a highly-critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting F5's BIG-IP networking devices running applicati...
Friday, July 3, 2020
Police Arrested Hundreds of Criminals After Hacking Into Encrypted Chat Network #Security
In a joint operation, European and British law enforcement agencies recently arrested hundreds of alleged drug dealers and other criminals after infiltrating into a global network of an encrypted chatting app that was used to plot drug deals, mo...
Wednesday, July 1, 2020
Microsoft Releases Urgent Windows Update to Patch Two Critical Flaws #Security
Microsoft yesterday quietly released out-of-band software updates to patch two high-risk security vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of millions of Windows 10 and Server editions' users. To be noted, Microsoft rushed to deliver patches almost tw...
Monday, June 29, 2020
Russian Hacker Gets 9-Year Jail for Running Online Shop of Stolen Credit Cards #Security
A United States federal district court has finally sentenced a Russian hacker to nine years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty of running two illegal websites devoted to facilitating payment card fraud, computer hacking, and other crimes....
Thursday, June 25, 2020
WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With LulzSec & Anonymous Hackers #Security
The United States government has filed a superseding indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange accusing him of collaborating with computer hackers, including those affiliated with the infamous LulzSec and "Anonymous" hacking groups. Th...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Ukrainian Police Arrest Hacker Who Tried Selling Billions of Stolen Records #Security
The Ukrainian police have arrested a hacker who made headlines in January last year by posting a massive database containing some 773 million stolen email addresses and 21 million unique plaintext passwords for sale on various underground hackin...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020
Zoom Bug Could Have Let Uninvited People Join Private Meetings #Security
If you use Zoom to host your remote online meetings, you need to read this piece carefully. The massively popular video conferencing software has patched a security loophole that could have allowed anyone to remotely eavesdrop on unprotected act...
Friday, January 24, 2020
Russian Pleads Guilty to Running 'CardPlanet' to Sell Stolen Credit Cards #Security
Image source: TOI Aleksei Burkov, a 29-year-old Russian hacker, on Thursday pleaded guilty to multiple criminal charges for running two illegal websites that helped cyber criminals commit more than $20 million in credit card fraud. The f...
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Hackers Behind GozNym Malware Sentenced for Stealing $100 Million #Security
Three members of an international organized cybercrime group that was behind a multi-million dollar theft primarily against U.S. businesses and financial institutions have been sentenced to prison, the U.S. Justice Department announced. The cri...
Sunday, December 15, 2019
Latest Microsoft Update Patches New Windows 0-Day Under Active Attack #Windows
#Microsoft With its latest and last Patch Tuesday for 2019, Microsoft is warning billions of its users of a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that attackers are actively exploiting in the wild in combination with a Chrome exploit to take remote...