Hacking News

Serbian authorities may have captured a member of “The Dark Overlord,” a notorious hacking gang that extorted hospitals, schools, and even Netflix. Read more

Hack attempts on Portland isn’t new. Last year, hackers made countless phishing attacks to hack into emails of many people and that cost the country more than $676 million. Read more

With cyber-attacks rising all across the Caribbean, Andre Thomas, Chief Executive Officer of the CICCD- Caribbean Israel Centre For Cyber Defense, has advised the local authorities in Barbados and the region responsible for law enforcement and better legislation, to counter this issue. Read more

An online forum featuring two candidates for California’s 1st District U.S. Congressional seat was interrupted when the internet feed was hacked during the live conference. Read more

Securus, a company that provides smartphone tracking tools for US law enforcement, has reportedly been hacked, with attackers accessing 2,800 pieces of data including login credentials, according to a Motherboard report. Read more

Many Mexican banks reported suspicious wire transfers and cash withdrawals a few days back. Upon investigation it was revealed that around 5 banks were compromised and as per The Daily Newspaper El Financiero, around 400 million pesos have been stolen. Read more

The U.S. government has identified a suspect in the leak last year of a large portion of the CIA’s computer hacking arsenal, the cyber-tools the agency had used to conduct espionage operations overseas, according to interviews and public documents. Read more

A DDoS cyber attack made buying a ticket tough for Danish rail travellers Sunday night. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple sources. Read more

Several banks in Mexico have experienced large cash transfers in recent weeks after cyber-criminals infiltrated some financial institutions which led to unauthorized transactions, as claimed by the central bank in an interview with Bloomberg. Read more

US Secret Service agents are looking into an attack affecting Riverside’s computer server, according to state and federal officials who are familiar with this matter. Read more