Hacker sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing credit card information
A 21-year-old Maryland man who was part of a credit card hacking ring that targeted businesses in Seattle and across the country has been sentenced to seven years in prison.The U.S. Attorney's Office...
View Article"TrapWire" Possible Reason for the massive DDoS Attack on WikiLeaks
Wikileaks has been under massive Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack since August 3rd. Wikileaks says that it is 'DNS amplification attack', a type of DDoS attack that takes advantage of the...
View ArticleNew Zealand Webhosting site hacked By NoEntryPhc
A Hacker called as 'NoEntryPhc' hacked into New Zealand based web development and hosting company site and defaced the main page.The site (www.webmate.co.nz ) has been defaced by the hacker. It seems...
View Article400 websites hacked by 3xp1r3 Cyber Army
The Bangladeshi Hacker group known as '3xp1r3 Cyber Army' hacked and defaced around 400 websites after breaching a server belonging to a hosting company.A representative of the hacker group said that...
View ArticleBacktrack 5 R3 Released - PenTesting Distribution
Offensive Security has released updated version of its PenTesting distribution, BackTrack 5 R3. The update version focuses on bug-fixes as well as the addition of over 60 new tools-several of which...
View Article#AntiLeaks claims they are behind DDoS attack on Wikileaks
Wikileaks was down around 10 days after massive DDoS attack. WikiLeaks says that they’ve been under attack since revealing TrapWire. But the hacker group called Antileaks claims responsibility for this...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cyber-Crime Department Phishing Scam
A spam mail purporting to be from the Microsoft Cyber-Crime Department claims that all email users around the world are required to validate their account by clicking a link in the message or risk...
View ArticleMultiple Vulnerabilities found in SonicWALL EMail Security 7.3.5
Vulnerability Laboratory Research Team has discovered multiple Web Vulnerabilities in SonicWalls UTM Email Security v7.3.5.6379 & Virtual Appliance.While most businesses now have some type of...
View ArticleRUTracker, Russia’s largest BitTorrent tracker site hacked
The popular Russian BitTorrent tracker website, RUTrakcer.org, has been breached by an unknown hacker group. According to CNews, the the attack began at 7 AM Moscow time.The compromised site was...
View Article80+ Sites Hacked By rEd X - 3xp1r3 Cyber Army
The Hacker known as rEd X from 3xp1r3 Cyber Army back again with fresh attack. The hacker managed to break into over 80 websites and defaced all of them.The list of impacted sites was published on...
View ArticleThe new variant of Zeroaccess Trojan exploits NTFS EA
The latest variant of infamous Zeroaccess Trojan makes use of a new Technique to store its malicious content. The Trojan exploits a feature provided by the NT File System called Extended Attributes...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Gauss : Kaspersky needs help Decrypting Gauss Malware
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking encryption of the recently discovered malware Gauss."Perhaps the most interesting mystery is Gauss’ encrypted warhead. Gauss...
View Article“We Can Not Charge Your Credit Card” Emails leads to Blackhole exploit kit
A Spam mail pretends to be from UPS ,carries an attachment that supposedly contains an invoice from Amazon.Here’s what the email entitled “We can not charge your credit card” looks like:Your credit...
View ArticleTrojan present in emails “Notification of payment received” regarding a...
MX Lab, started to intercept a new trojan distribution campaign by email with the subject “Notification of payment received” and it informs the reader of a payment on Paypal.The email is send from the...
View ArticleProlexic found Vulnerability in Popular Dirt Jumper DDoS toolkit
Security Vendor Prolexic has discovered a critical vulnerability in the popular Dirt Jumper DDoS Toolkit family used by hackers to launch distributed denial of service attacks against corporate...
View Article[Interviews with Security Experts]: Ashish Mistry, founder of HconSTF
Hello, EHN Readers. Today , We had a great talk with Ashish Mistry, Security Researcher and founder of HconSTF. Also, He is Providing Training in information security field to IT professionals,...
View Article2000 Pakistani websites Hacked By Indian United Hackers
While everyone enjoying the Independence day, Indian Hackers enjoyed independence day on their own style. Yesterday, Indian hackers have united as one and hacked into more than 2000 Pakistani websites...
View ArticlePwnium 2 : Google ups Chromium Bug Bounty to $2 Million
After the success of the first Pwnium competition held earlier this year , Google has announced the second Pwnium competition; In this Pwnium 2, google had increased its bug bounty offering to security...
View ArticleSaudi Aramco computer system infected by virus
Saudi Arabian Oil Co (Saudi Aramco) said its computer systems had been shut down by a virus late on Wednesday, but it added that production had not been affected.“On Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, an...
View ArticleBafruz Trojan replicates Antivirus in order to disable it
Microsoft discovered a new family of malware which use a clever method in order to disable the Anti-malware. fake alert displayed by virusBafruz is a multi-component backdoor that creates a...
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