Hacking News

The Shadow Brokers, a notorious hacking group that leaked US cyberweapons — which were also abused by the recent ransomware disasters WannaCry and Petya or NotPetya — has now threatened to unmask the identity of a former hacker who worked for the NSA. Besides this, the Shadow Brokers group has also doubled the price for its monthly subscription model of NSA’s built […]

Microsoft is making every effort to make its Windows operating system more secure and advanced than ever before by beefing up its security practices and hardening it against hackers and cyber attacks in its next release. With the launch of its Windows 10 Creator Update (also known as RedStone 3), which is expected to release

What if I say the Tuesday’s devastating global malware outbreak was not due to any ransomware infection? Yes, the Petya ransomware attacks that began infecting computers in several countries, including Russia, Ukraine, France, India and the United States on Tuesday and demands $300 ransom was not designed with the intention of restoring the computers at all. Read more

We all remember the Dark Overlord (probably). They provided diehard OITNB fans with the first ten episodes of the fifth season. After threatening several other networks, they followed through with at least one promise by releasing a few episodes of Steve Harvey’s new talk show. Read more

Skype is an instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. Users may transmit both text and video messages and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. It also allows video conference calls. A critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability has been discovered in Skype, the issue may allow

The new ransomware (Petya) attack, currently hitting a large number of countries around the world, such as Ukraine, the UK, India, the Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, and many others. The new ransomware uses the contact details of “wowsmith123456@posteo.net” and demands for a payment of $300 in Bitcoin. Read more  

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. Fewer than 50 ExPetr/Petya ransomware victims have paid approximately $10,200 in Bitcoin so far in the hopes of unlocking encrypted hardware and recovering scrambled files. Read more

Join Kaspersky Lab and Comae Technologies Thursday June 29, 2017 at 10 a.m. Eastern time for a webinar “The Inside Story of the Petya/ExPetr Ransomware.” Click here to attend. While Microsoft and others continue to shore up links between yesterday’s global ransomware outbreak and the update mechanism for Ukrainian financial software provider MEDoc, others are finding

HackerOne said Monday its average dollar payouts to participants are up, and cross site scripting vulnerabilities cause the biggest headaches for companies. The bug bounty platform provider culled data from the past four years, analyzing 50,000 reported bugs and more than $17 million in payouts to white hat hackers, and published it yesterday in its 2017

Microsoft is warning customers of a bug in its Azure Active Directory Connect product that could allow an adversary to escalate privileges and reset passwords and gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The advisory (4033453) was issued Tuesday via Microsoft’s TechNet website for the vulnerability which it rated “important.” The advisory includes ways to determine