Hacking News

Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) flaw with a CVSS score of 10 is now being exploited by attacks. Cisco has updated its advisory for vulnerability CVE-2018-0101 for the second time since warning customers of the critical flaw on January 29. The bug affects its ASA and Firepower security appliances. Read more

Microsoft has added Windows 10 Pro support for palm-vein authentication, as part of its Windows Hello facial and fingerprint-recognition system. The palm-vein authentication comes by way of a collaboration with Fujitsu, a Windows 10 enterprise hardware partner that is in the process of deploying its own palm-vein biometric technology to 80,000 employees in Japan. Read

The number of cyber criminal activities is on a constant rise. Nobody is safe, from Twitter accounts to hospital computers, they are all being hacked and there isn’t much one seems to be able to do to prevent such hacks. T-Mobile was recently in the news for a similar occurrence when hackers breached its system

The Justice Department has charged 36 individuals with connections to a cyber-fraud ring that claimed more than $530 million in stolen funds in its seven-year history. The group, known as the Infraud Organization, were charged with nine counts, including conspiracy to racketeer, wire fraud, and computer crimes. Read more

Someone has published the purported source code for the iOS bootloader, iBoot, potentially opening the door for hackers and jailbreakers to find vulnerabilities in Apple’s mobile OS. Motherboard reports that the iBoot source code for iOS 9 was leaked on GitHub and, though it is an older version of iOS, parts of it probably remain

A prominent cyber security researcher in the Australian Information Security community has been charged for a data breach at a well known Australian car sharing service, GoGet, while also potentially compromising the personal information of the company’s customers. Read more

With recent rise in cyber crime activities, strong measures are being taken by the authorities whether state level or organizational level, to thwart the malevolent intentions of hackers. As much as it is essential to take proper precautionary measures, it is also vital to implement severe penalties and punishments for such acts to minimize such

Cyber investigators in Bristol discovered a hacking program which could be used by hackers to spy on people via their webcams. The Luminosity Link Remote Access Trojan (RAT) was initially discovered on the computer system of a suspect in Bristol, who was later arrested on suspicions of cyber criminal offences in a different investigation. Read

Hackers are now able to make the ATMs pour out cash like winning vending machines. According to reports, hackers have now started to hack ATM machines in the US, after finding success in Asia and Europe. The group of hackers is also being suspected to be tied to international criminal organizations, who have purloined more

Researchers at Radware have discovered a new botnet that uses vulnerabilities linked with the Satori botnet and is leveraging the Grand Theft Auto videogame community to infect IoT devices. Satori is a derivative of Mirai, the notorious botnet that in 2016 infamously managed to take down Dyn, a DNS hosting provider that supports some of