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Authorities Close Down Webstressor.org

April 30, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

‘Operation Power Off’, law enforcement efforts in the U.S., U.K., the Netherlands and elsewhere, have taken down the DDoS-for-hire webstresser.org (previously webstresser.co) website. At its takedown, there were apparently 136,000 registered users … [Read more...] about Authorities Close Down Webstressor.org

Filed Under: DDoS, Government, Hacking Tagged With: Brian Krebs, DDoS, DDoS-for-hire, Europol, Germany, Jovan Mirkovic, Netherlands, Operation Power Off, U.K., U.S., vDOS, Webstresser, webstresser.org

Facebook – “Malicious Actors” Discover Identities on Two Billion Users

April 7, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

On Wednesday, Facebook said that “malicious actors” had taken advantage of search tools on its platform, allowing them to discover the identities of most of its 2 billion users, and collect information about them. The abuse of Facebook’s search … [Read more...] about Facebook – “Malicious Actors” Discover Identities on Two Billion Users

Filed Under: Data Breach, Data Theft Tagged With: Australia, Cambridge Analytica, dark web, data breach, Europe, Facebook, Facebook public profile, Facebook search, hackers, India, malicious actors, President Trump, regulation, U.S.

PHP Weathermap Bug Allows Cryptocurrency Mining

March 23, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

Hackers are exploiting CVE-2013-2618, a five-year-old security vulnerability in Cacti’s Network Weathermap plug-in to infect x86-64 Linux web servers with cryptocurrency-mining malware. The Weathermap plug-in is an open source tool that network … [Read more...] about PHP Weathermap Bug Allows Cryptocurrency Mining

Filed Under: Cryptomining Tagged With: China, cryptocurrency mining, cryptomining, CVE-2013-2618, Japan, Monero, open source, PHP Weathermap, PHP Weathermap Bug, Taiwan, Trend Micro, U.S., vulnerability

U.S. Administration Levies Sanctions on Russia for Cyber Attacks

March 18, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

On Thursday, the U.S. stepped up sanctions on Russian intelligence for its attempt to interfere in the U.S. 2016 elections, and accused Russia of coordinating a far-reaching cyber-assault on its energy, nuclear, water and “critical manufacturing” … [Read more...] about U.S. Administration Levies Sanctions on Russia for Cyber Attacks

Filed Under: Government, Hacking Tagged With: cyber attacks, DHS, energy sector, FBI, Russia, Russian cyberattacks, sanctions, U.K., U.S., U.S. elections, U.S. government

U.K. and U.S. States Russia Responsible for NotPetya

February 16, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

The U.K. government, backed by an assessment made by its National Cyber Security Centre, stated yesterday that the Russian military was “almost certainly” responsible for the June 2017 NotPetya cyber attacks, mainly aimed at the Ukraine. The White … [Read more...] about U.K. and U.S. States Russia Responsible for NotPetya

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Government, Ransomware Tagged With: Maersk, NCSC, NotPetya, ransomware, Reckitt Benckister, Russia, TNT, U.K., U.S., Ukraine

U.S. Takes Down $530M Cybercrime Forum InFraud

February 9, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

The U.S. Justice Department just took down an online crime forum, which is believed to have trafficked in stolen identities, financial data and contraband goods thought to be worth over $530M in intended losses. The goal over the course of the … [Read more...] about U.S. Takes Down $530M Cybercrime Forum InFraud

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Government Tagged With: Andrey Hodirevski, Brian Krebs, Cybercrime, cyberfraud, Helkern, InFraud, Las Vegas, Obnon, Rector, Sergei Medvedev, Svyatoslav Bondarenko, U.S., Ukraine

PZChao Steals Bitcoinc via mining malware software

February 9, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

Researchers at Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender have discovered a custom-built piece of malware that has been sowing havoc in Asia since last July at least that could mark the return of the infamous Chinese hacker group Iron Tiger. Active … [Read more...] about PZChao Steals Bitcoinc via mining malware software

Filed Under: Hacking, Malware Tagged With: Asia, Bitdefender, China, GhOst RAT, Iron Tiger, Malware, Operation PZChao, payload, U.S.

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