Hacking News

Security researchers found a sophisticated remote access trojan that has resurfaced after more than a decade since it was first released. The new malware, dubbed “Hacker’s Door” by researchers at Cylance, is operated by what’s thought to be a Chinese advanced persistent threat hacker group known as Winnti. The malware has many similarities to a remote […]

  Monday morning was not a great time to be an IT admin, with the public release of a bug that effectively broke WPA2 wireless security. As reported previously by ZDNet, the bug, dubbed “KRACK” — which stands for Key Reinstallation Attack — is at heart a fundamental flaw in the way Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2)

The top 100,000 websites as ranked by Alexa were examined. Co-founder and CTO Andrey Meshkov gave his company’s verdicts on Thursday. We found 220 sites that start mining when a user starts their main page, with an aggregated audience of 500 million people. These users live all over the world; there are places with users from the USA,

Unfortunately, it looks like the method is still in effect. Philip Neustrom, the co-founder of Shotwell Labs, lately found two demo websites that would pass account details if you visited from a mobile connection. By simply inserting a zip code and clicking a button, the site would spit out the full name, current location, and

Security Researcher Mathy Vanhoef of Imec-DistiNet discovered a weakness within the WPA2 protocol, potentially affecting all the wireless routers supporting WPA2, An attacker can take advantage of this vulnerability by using key re-installation attacks (KRACKS). The attack can be used to intercept passwords, Emails, chat messages and even your credit card Information. Consider if your

Homeland Security is ordering federal agencies to deploy basic web and email security features in an effort to boost cybersecurity across government. Up until now, Homeland Security had been pushing businesses and enterprise customers to enable HTTPS web encryption across the board, which helps secure data in transit but also ensures that nobody can alter the contents

Commercial shipping vessels have such poor cyber security it’s possible to track them down and hack into them via poorly secured communications systems. Ken Munro, a security researcher at Pen Test Partners, who has documented the lapses in security said they are “simply not acceptable”. Many of the problems stem from how ships traditionally ran on

Ex-Premier League players Carlos Tevez, Dirk Kuyt and Gabriel Heinze have been named by hackers Fancy Bears as three of the footballers cleared to use banned medicines at the 2010 World Cup. The trio were among 25 players given therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) during the tournament in South Africa. In its latest leaked documents, the Russian hacking

The IT security researchers at CheckPoint cyber security firm headquartered in Israel and the US has revealed that the recent series of cyber crimes against oil (1), mining (2), construction, and energy sector organizations (3) were perpetrated by a young hacker and not any nation-state sponsored hacker group. It comes as a big surprise considering that the hacking

UTICA, NEW YORK – Obinna Obioha, age 31, and a citizen of Nigeria, was sentenced today to serve 51 months in prison for operating a fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from businesses in the United States and other countries. The announcement was made by Acting United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and Vadim