Tag: Hacker

November 14, 2019

Utah-based InfoTrax Systems, L.C. has settled with the FCC (Federal Trade Commission) for its failure to protect its data following a hack that exposed the data for 1 million clients. Hackers breached the InfoTrax Systems infrastructure and remained undetected until […]

November 13, 2019

As companies and consumers have become more aware of phishing, hackers have refined their techniques and are now launching a more advanced form of attack known as lateral phishing. This technique is highly convincing and, consequently, highly effective. Hackers are […]

November 1, 2019

Security researchers have recently found that almost “all modern computers” are vulnerable to a modified version of the old cold boot attacks.  This new version, discovered by a Finnish company last year, can interfere with a machine’s firmware in order […]

October 30, 2019

A hacker from New Jersey could spend the next 12 years in prison after he confessed to using keyloggers to steal data from two companies for more than a year. Ankur Agarwal, 45, of Montville, New Jersey, admitted he placed […]

October 30, 2019

Facebook has filed a lawsuit against Israeli company NSO Group, creator of the Pegasus spyware, alleging that it was behind the massive WhatsApp hack earlier this year. In May 2019, a zero-day vulnerability was found in WhatsApp’s messaging platform, exploited […]

October 18, 2019

Chinese state-sponsored hackers conducted cyber-espionage operations targeting various aerospace-related firms for years in an effort to help the county’s advancements in this sector, Crowdstrike reports. The identified hacking operation started in January 2010, just after the state-owned enterprise Commercial Aircraft […]

October 17, 2019

Also known as the Dukes, CozyDuke, and Cozy Bear, the state-sponsored group has been active for over a decade and is believed to have been involved in the 2016 attacks against the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the formal governing body […]

October 9, 2019

A victim of Muhstik ransomware paid the attackers to decrypt his data, and then undertook a different kind of payback – he took revenge by hacking into the server and stealing the decryption keys, only to release them for free […]

October 3, 2019

Amid the complexity of cybersecurity and the secrecy of criminal hackers, security threats have acquired an aura of mysticism, giving rise to enduring legends, rumors, misperceptions and outright myths. In the cybersecurity space, these myths are almost always damaging. Watching […]

October 1, 2019

A former Yahoo software engineer has admitted in court to hacking into the accounts of thousands of the platform’s users. The man, Reyes Daniel Ruiz, 34, of Tracy, California, pleaded guilty to accessing about 6,000 Yahoo accounts, in search of […]