New hacking group hits government websites, leaks stolen data
A hacker group that named itself “The Unknowns” has recently boasted on Pastebin of having compromised a number of government, business and educational websites, …
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Android drive-by download malware served by hacked websites
A number of legitimate but compromised websites have been spotted serving Android malware to unsuspecting visitors, warns Lookout. The downloading of the malware, which poses …
Poison Ivy RAT served by compromised Israeli website
The official website of the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies has been compromised and has been found serving a variant of the Poison Ivy remote administration …
Anonymous continues defacing websites, releases Norton AV code
It is hard to predict whether this week’s arrest of six prominent LulzSec and AntiSec members will have a destructive enough effect on the loosely organized hacker …
Eradicating malware from enterprise web sites
Qualys announced a new service to help enterprises detect and eradicate malware from their web sites. Delivered as part of the QualysGuard Cloud Platform and suite of …
Compromised websites from a site owner’s perspective
Malicious actors are often able to compromise legitimate websites without the site owners’ knowledge: over 90% of respondents didn’t notice any strange activity, …
Compromised DreamHost-hosted websites lead to scams
Hundreds of websites hosted by DreamHost have been compromised and are used to redirect users to a Russian scam page, warns Zscaler. Whether or not this is the result of the …
Romanian hacker TinKode allegedly arrested
A 20-year old Romanian believed to be “TinKode”, the infamous hacker that has breached the systems and defaced the pages of several government organizations, has …
Searching for Google Chrome can lead to malicious content
Searching for a link to download Google Chrome might result in a malware infection, warns a Websense researcher. According to him, if a user enters the term “Download …
Hacks of Chinese sites either inside jobs or faked
Last week’s news that hacks of a number of high-profile sites resulted in the compromise of personal and financial information of over 100 million Chinese Internet users …
Anonymous hacks Sony website and Facebook account
Anonymous hackers have again targeted Sony over its support of the contentious SOPA (Stop Online Piracy) bill, and have compromised both the Sony Pictures website, its …
Anonymous admits leaking personal info on 16,000 Finns
Anonymous has taken responsibility for the personal information of some 16,000 Finns ending up on a file sharing site on Saturday, and has additionally made public the …