Email marketing company Mailchimp confirmed this morning that a malicious hacking group managed to compromise its systems to access customer accounts and extract potentially sensitive information. Siobhan Smyth, director of information security at Mailchimp, said its security teams detected malicious activity on its systems on March 26, when they discovered that a tool employed by […]
Microsoft has reported the correction of a critical vulnerability in Exchange Server detected at the beginning of 2021 and whose exploitation would have allowed threat actors to establish forwarding rules in the affected accounts, which would eventually allow access to incoming emails. Known as ProxyToken and tracked as CVE-2021-33766, the flaw received a score of […]
In an unprecedented event, Chinese authorities have dismantled one of the most important groups in the world of videogame hacking, responsible for developing cheating software for many of today’s most popular games. This operation, deployed by Kunshan Police also seized about $46 million USD in assets including cash, luxury cars, computers and jewelry. This information […]
IM-RAT, which could be had for as little as US$25, was bought by nearly 15,000 people
Each week, hosting platforms, third-party services and search engines receive millions of requests to remove copyrighted content; according to experts in information security audits, this is how rights holders of multiple forms of content try to protect themselves from anyone who tries to distribute their property in illegitimate ways. Some of the most important online […]
A former Facebook executive, Alex Stamos, at the Washington Post’s technology and policy conference, has suggested that Mark Zuckerberg can foresee the advantage of a decision perceived as insane. It is suggested that while at present his decisions could prove insane and unrequired for, they prove to be beneficial in the future. “Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on more data about what people want […]
Medical files, containing personal data of patients of University of Washington Medicine, were mistakenly exposed following a data error. UW Medicine, in a press release dated February 20, 2019, has revealed the detection of “…an error in a database configuration that made certain protected internal files temporarily available on the internet and visible by search.” […]
In the aftermath of the dastardly Pulwama terror attack that shook the nation to the core, a group of Indian Hacktivists going by the name Team I Crew has taken down multiple Pakistan Government websites, in one of the biggest cyber attacks on the neighbor. First reported by Times Now, well over 200 websites were […]
The technological giant is in the process of recovering the deleted information The shut in Azure service last January 29 caused unheard damage. According to network security and ethical hacking experts from the International Institute of Cyber Security, the incident caused the deletion of the databases of some of the users of this service. The […]
CES or the Consumer Electronics Show is arguably the biggest tech tradeshow ever. Every year witnesses the launch of innovative tech, and this year too, one piece of tech was supposed to debut at the event but did not. Lora DiCarlo (a company owned by Lora Haddock) was awarded the CES 2019 Innovation Awards in […]
Google continues its quest to keep Android users safe by actively banning apps they think will harm its users. This time around, a batch of 22 apps was deleted by the search giant from the Google Play Store. Unfortunately, the aggregate download of the apps reached more than two million downloads prior to the takedown. […]
For as little as $15 per month, anyone with a criminal bent could rent the services of webstresser.org to take down a targeted site.
Administrators of DDoS-for-hire Service were arrested as a result of a joint Operation Power OFF led by the Dutch police, and UK’s National Crime Agency along with the support of Europol and other law enforcement agencies. The 6 administrators behind DDoS-for-hire website were located in the United Kingdom, Croatia, Canada, and Serbia. Top users of […]
How ‘Elf Bowling,’ the incredibly popular viral game from 1999, became an early victim of what we might now call “fake news.” I know this sounds pretty crazy and dangerous, but there was once a time when we sent one another executable files via email. It was kind of like playing Russian Roulette with our […]
‘Andromeda’, a huge malware system, a botnet made up of millions of computers, has finally been taken offline, as per reports. It’s also reported that the cyber criminal who has been behind the Andromeda network, has been arrested as a result of a joint operation involving Belarus, Germany and the United States. Reuters reports from […]
As surprising and unbelievable as it sounds, it is indeed true that a single user has managed to jeopardize lives of countless individuals by permanently locking down dozens of multisignature digital wallets simply by accidentally deleting the code needed to access the wallets. The wallets were hosted by Parity Technologies; the company admitted that the […]
The second season of award-winning TV thriller Mr. Robotpremiered with a scene that sent shivers down the cybersecurity world’s spine. In uncomfortably realistic detail, hackers virtually broke into a smart home, turning the home-based IoT technology against its inhabitants. The TV and stereo started switching on and off randomly, the water temperature in the shower went […]
AlphaBay, an online marketplace that sold illegal products on the Dark Web, has been taken offline following raids in three countries, according to several reports. Raids took place across the US, Canada, and Thailand, on July 5, the same day AlphaBay mysteriously went down. Authorities have declined to comment on the issue, but the Wall Street […]
Update: Later, a 54GB torrent file (uploaded by user DARK-OVERL) appeared on The Pirate Bay. Fossbytes hasn’t verified the contents of any of the leaked torrents. However, none of the supposed leaked torrents reportedly contain a copy of Disney’s The Pirates of the Caribbean 5. As pointed out by TorrentFreak, this story had previously assumed that the […]
Windows’ system files were flagged as malicious, and Facebook was marked as a phishing site. A malware signature update issued by the company on Monday triggered the software into mistakenly flagging Windows system files as malware, melting down millions of managed systems around the world. The problem began in the afternoon on the US east […]
Short Bytes: An alleged Anonymous hacker has taken down about a fifth of the Dark Web. He did so by breaching the servers of popular Dark Web hosting service Freedom Hosting II, which powers about 15-20% .onion sites. The hacker targeted the service as the websites contained a large collection of child porn. The vigilante hacker has […]