Hacking News

The Server Message Block version 1 (SMBv1) — a 30-year-old file sharing protocol which came to light last month after the devastating WannaCry outbreak — will be removed from the upcoming Windows 10 (1709) Redstone 3 Update. Read more

Security researchers have discovered more than a decade-old vulnerability in several Unix-based operating systems — including Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris — which can be exploited by attackers to escalate their privileges to root, potentially leading to a full system takeover. Read more

Cyber criminals targeting casinos and mining firms in North America have extorted as much as $620,000 per theft during a four-year run in which they threaten victims with the destruction or public release of stolen data. Read more

The crusty SMBv1 file-sharing protocol, abused by a NSA exploit last month that spread WannaCry, will be removed from Windows 10 starting with the upcoming Redstone 3 update. “We can confirm that SMBv1 is being removed for Redstone 3,” a Microsoft representative told Threatpost. Read more

Google, for the second time this month, has removed malicious apps from Google Play that could have laid the groundwork for an attacker to root infected devices. A researcher with Kaspersky Lab on Tuesday described how attackers managed to evade settings set in place by Google Play’s VerifyApps malware scanner in order to sneak malware

A South Korean web hosting company is forking out just over US$1 million to ransomware scum after suffering more than eight days of nightmare. Nayana first announced the attack on June 10, saying customer video files and its database had been encrypted, and promising to work to recover the data. More than 150 servers were

Most famous human rights lawyers, activists, and journalists in Mexico have been targeted by a professional spyware called “Pegasus” sold to the government of Mexico to be used only to study criminals and terrorists. Read more

Towards the end of 2016, Anonymous formed a campaign targeting Thai government. The Thai government thought it’d be a good idea to offer up a bill regarding the internet (of all things). In this bill, they proposed that the entire country’s internet traffic be routed through one single gateway. Read more

Hackers from Morocco succeeded to break defenses of different school area networks. The main aim of the group was to attempt and obtain a way into the sensitive government systems from there. The United Data Technologies (UDT) which is a company that studies such breaches said that the hackers succeeded to get into these networks

If you spend a lot of time scavenging the internet for secrets, you are probably no stranger to the online database WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks has dabbled in a variety of leaks, from the infamous Hillary Clinton emails to the Iraq Apache helicopter attack footage. Read more