Eight brands of IoT home routers were compromised and used to create botnets that launched an application- against a website's multiple servers.
Eight different brands of Internet of Things (IoT) home routers were compromised and used to create botnets that launched an application-level distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a website's multiple servers.
An eye-watering 98.1 million accounts, and their cleartext passwords, have been stolen from Russia's biggest web portals Rambler.ru.
The breach occurred way back on 17 February 2012 according to breach repository site LeakedSource and appears to have gone unreported in intervening years.
It represents a significant win for hackers wanting to compromise Russian accounts. The breach was reported by the same user who handed LeakedSource some 43.6 million cleartext breached Last.fm accounts also dating back to 2012.
Hackers, start your engines.
Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world’s hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in search of vulnerabilities that could affect reviewers and businesses. Yelp will pay researchers for their work, starting at $100 and maxing out at $15,000 for more complex or critical exploits.
It is often the illusive H Factor -- the human element -- that ends up being the weakest link that makes cyber-attacks and data breaches possible, sometimes even more so than hackers exploiting zero-day system vulnerabilities or employing new malware.
1Password Teams is getting new Pro features that let you better manage users, and is extending its discount program to encourage more of us to use it.
Administrators could always create groups, but 1Password is taking it beyond the static ‘Administrators, Owners or Team Members’ options. You can now create as many of few groups as you like, and choose which passwords users in those groups have access to.
What took Google a month to fix took others just a couple of weeks.
In the latest round of Android security fixes released Tuesday, the company fixed two remaining flaws that were part of the so-called "Quadrooter" set of vulnerabilities announced last month.
Quadrooter was particularly troublesome because the set of four flaws (hence the name "quad") affected at least 900 million Android devices. These high-risk vulnerabilities would allow a dedicated and well-trained attacker to gain complete access to an affected phone and its data.
Stealing passwords isn’t hard: just set up a fake login page and ask people to sign in. It’s called phishing, and its big business in the cybercrime world. Big enough that some “entrepreneurs” in Russia are offering phishing as a freemium service.
It’s called “Fake-Game,” and security researchers at Fortinet point out it’s been online for over a year. Over 60,000 active users have stolen nearly 700,000 passwords using the “service,” which makes stealing passwords as simple as sharing a link.
Russia’s recent intrusions into American political organizations’ networks are driving discussions about the rules of engagement for cyber warfare, and forcing America’s own hacking of foreign governments into the light.
Florian Lukavsky hacks criminals profiting from out-of-control multi-billion dollar CEO wire transfer scams... and they hate him for it.
The director of SEC Consult's Singapore office has made a name striking back at so-called "whaling" scammers by sending malicious Word documents that breach their Windows 10 boxes and pass on identity information to police.
Phishing scams that use fake login pages to steal account usernames and passwords are nothing new. The trick for hackers is to fool customers into thinking that they’re following a legit link from a real company, and a new phishing scam is particularly good at that.
A raft of fake PayPal support accounts have popped up on Twitter. The accounts monitor for individuals who tweet support requests to @PayPal, and then reply to those messages with a link to a real-looking login page. Unless you look real close, anyone could fall for it.
