Symantec’s website has reported that more than 2500 Twitter accounts have been compromised to tweet links to websites whose expertise lies in adult dating and sex content. The attackers have also altered users’ profile pictures, biography and full name to further promote these sites, and keep in mind that these…
Someone Hacked the Hackers: 500K Accounts Leaked Online
Someone has a sense of irony: A well-known hacker forum dubbed Nulled.IO has been itself compromised, leading to the release of a treasure trove of pwn data. Nulled.IO said that it has 473,700 registered users who share, sell and buy leaked content, stolen credentials, nulled software and software cracks. According…
Cybersecurity, Personal Email Accounts and Personal Devices
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans In October, we learned that a hacker claiming to be a teenager had accessed the personal email account of CIA Director John Brennan. WikiLeaks then published at least some of the emails. According to WikiLeaks, the published materials include a list…
ISIS Twitter Accounts Traced Back to UK Government by Hackers
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Every computer and mobile phone logs onto the internet using an IP address, which is a type of identification number. The hacking collective showed Mirror Online details of the IP addresses used by a trio of separate digital jihadis to access…
ISIS Twitter Accounts, IP Addresses Connected To British Government, Hackers Claim
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans At least three social media accounts belonging to supporters of the Islamic State group have been traced back to the British government, according to the hacking group VandaSec. The group, which is comprised of four male teenagers, says it discovered that…
25 Million ‘NAVER’ Accounts Breached using Stolen Data
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans A 31-year-old South Korean has been recently accused by the police for the allegation of infiltrating and hacking the accounts of 25 million users of Naver, one of the popular search portal in South Korea.On Wednesday, the Asian National Police Agency revealed…
‘5,500 Twitter accounts down’: Hackers take on IS in cyber battle
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans The hacker group Anonymous claimed on Tuesday to have taken out 5,500 Twitter accounts linked to the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks. The loosely organised hacking collective made the claim in a tweet one day afterlaunching…
Facebook To Warn Users If Government Is Hacking Their Accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Having been able to take steps in the past to assure that Facebook users’ rights haven’t been compromised, now the social network site is taking a step further by notifying users if a government entity is detected to be hacking or…
Impossible to kill RATs drain bank accounts dry, says BioCatch
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Imagine a piece of malware that is practically impossible to detect and can suck a victim’s bank account dry – because it was installed by the user, and acts like any other legitimate piece of software. That is exactly what a…
iBanking – Android app! helping to hack facebook accounts
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans It is believed that an attacker can’t hack a facebook account which has enabled two-step authentication and other additional security check, even if he knows the username and password. But, not more! Vulnerabilities in android apps can make it possible. Cyber…