Hacking News

Enigma, a cryptocurrency investor platform, was compromised by an attacker who swindled investors into parting with roughly $500,000 in cryptocurrency. This week, the decentralized cryptocurrency marketplace was gearing up for its Token Sale, also known as an initial coin offering (ICO), in order to give thousands of users the chance to use their ethereum (ETH) to […]

Unsecured Internet of Things (IoT) devices are “appearing like lice”, says Earl Perkins, a research vice president in the Security and Privacy team at Gartner. The culprits, he said, are the operational technology (OT) people. “The OT people have found a [cheaper] way to replace legacy systems for collecting data about the performance of their

Criminals are infecting Windows machines with fileless malware that runs in memory, and puts the hijacked PCs to work on mining cryptocurrency. Two features in particular make this malware, known as Coinminer, “extremely stealthy and persistent”, according to malware researchers at Trend Micro. To infect Windows machine, it’s using the so-called EternalBlue vulnerability employed by WannaCry and

After hacking social media accounts of HBO and its widely watched show Game of Thrones, a notorious group of hackers calling itself OurMine took control over the official Twitter and Facebook accounts for Sony’s PlayStation Network (PSN) on Sunday. After taking over the accounts, OurMine, Saudi Arabian group of hackers which claims to be a “white hat” security

The FBI’s intention is to have U.S. firms remove Kaspersky out of their PC’s as early as possible or avoid from utilizing them in new Machines or other efforts, the new and former officials say. The FBI’s counterintelligence division has continued providing directions since the start of the year on a priority basis, prioritizing businesses in the

The “Mr. Smith group” of hackers told News that they have access to “many HBO Servers” and that HBO should be “waiting” for the leak of episode six, which will be aired on Sunday, and episode seven of its greatest hit quickly before of the show’s finish at the end of the week. Read more

Despite its advantages as a well-connected society, Singapore still lags behind other cities in some areas and will need to catch up and be better prepared for future transformation. Specifically, it had fallen behind in e-payment adoption compared to others such as China, where cash had become almost obsolete in major Chinese cities, said Singapore Prime Minister

iOS 11 has a new safety feature that could help when your back’s against the wall. The iPhone’s Touch ID fingerprint sensor is great for quickly unlocking your device, but it’s also been used by law enforcement to circumvent legal restrictions on demanding a passcode. Reverting to passcode access only currently requires a restart via long pressing the sleep

NEW YORK, NY — US authorities intercepted and recorded millions of phone calls last year under a single wiretap order, authorized as part of a narcotics investigation. The wiretap order authorized an unknown government agency to carry out real-time intercepts of 3.29 million cell phone conversations over a two-month period at some point during 2016,

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