Tag: Hackers
Click on attachment and they have your Facebook, Banking Password
If you get 10 percent success, that's 40 million...
New password-stealing virus targets Facebook
Hackers have flooded the Internet with virus-tainted spam that targets Facebook’s estimated 400 million users in an effort to steal banking passwords and gather other sensitive information..
Biggest hacker training site shut down
What is believed to be the country’s biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China’s Hubei province.
Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday.
"Basically students were told how to steal accounts and use trojan programs. Sometimes trainers show us how to write programs,"
SHOCK: Report Details China Hacks Targeting Google, Others, Many Others
Advanced Persistent Threats | APT Attacks, Zero Day Exploits
“If you’re a law firm and you’re doing business in places like China, it’s so probable you’re compromised and it’s very probable there’s not much you can do about it,” Mandia says.
Now a leading computer forensic firm is providing the closest look so far at the nature of the attacks, and attackers, that struck Google and others, thousands of others. The report never mentions Google by name, or any other companies, but focuses on information gathered from hundreds of forensic investigations the firm has conducted that are identical to what we know about the Google hack.
Google May Pull Out of China, Threatens to UNFILTER RESULTS!
Google launched its Chinese-language search engine Google.cn in 2006
Wide Cyber Attack Is Linked to China
Chinese Hackers possibly used Adobe Reader flaw…
Google said it is "reviewing the feasibility of our business operations in China" and may back out of China entirely and un-filter results! As it disclosed it had been hit with major cyberattacks it believes to have originated from China…
From the Google Blog:
“ These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all. We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China. “ GoogleBlog
largest Chinese search engine Baidu hacked
Its the same technique that was used to hijack Twitter...
Baidu (www.baidu.com), China’s biggest search engine, was hacked on Tuesday morning, and is currently inaccessible.
Chinese surfers pointed out that the hackers, who label themselves as the "Iranian Cyber Army", changed Baidu’s DNS records, redirecting traffic to another site. This same group it seems hacked twitter not to long ago.
Bank firewalls cracked by cyberhackers
Underground hackers have learned how to drain money from corporate bank accounts
For more than a decade the common currency among cybercriminals has been pilfered credit card numbers, but some underground hackers have learned how to drain money directly from corporate bank accounts. There has been a big rise in such frauds, raising the stakes in the war between financial institutions and criminals and costing some bank clients half a million dollars – or more.
iphone Unsecure: Hotspot sniffer eavesdrops on iPhone in real-time
People who use public WiFi to make iPhone calls or conduct video conferences take heed: It just got a lot easier to monitor your conversations in real time. At a talk scheduled for Saturday at the Toorcon hacker conference in San Diego, two security researchers plan to show the latest advances in the open-source UCSniff tool for penetrating voice-over-internet-protocol systems. With a few clicks of a mouse, they will eavesdrop on a call between two audience members using popular iPhone applications that route the calls over the conference network.
Hotspot sniffer eavesdrops on iPhone in real-time " The Register
SSL is insecure.. unless you use FIREFOX, Man banished from PayPal for showing how to Hack PayPal
Thats right folks, your SSL connection is not secure unless you are using good ol firefox..
PayPal suspended the account of a white-hat hacker on Tuesday, a day after someone used his research into website authentication to publish a counterfeit certificate for the online payment processor.
"Under the Acceptable Use Policy, PayPal may not be used to send or receive payments for items that show the personal information of third parties in violation of applicable law," company representatives wrote in an email sent to the hacker, Moxie Marlinspike. "Please understand that this is a security measure meant to help protect you and your account. We apologize for any inconvenience."
Hijacked Webmail Accounts Used to Promote Dodgy E-Commerce Sites
Tens of thousands of compromised Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo Webmail accounts are being used to gin up traffic for dodgy, bargain-basement electronics vendors online that only accept bank transfers and Western Union payments, security experts warn.
Over the weekend, the credentials for at least ten thousand Microsoft Hotmail accounts were briefly posted online. Microsoft acknowledged the incident on Monday, saying the accounts were stolen as part of a phishing scam. Since then, other news outlets have reported that large caches of Yahoo and Gmail account credentials also were found online… More
'Thousands' of Hotmail passwords published online
MICROSOFT has blocked access to thousands of Hotmail accounts in response to hackers plundering password information and posting it online.
Cyber-crooks evidently used "phishing” tactics to dupe users of Microsoft’s free web-based email service into revealing account and access information, according to the US technology giant.