On 6th July Canonical owned account on GitHub was hacked and credentials were compromised and used to create repositories and issues among other activities. Canonical removes the compromised GitHub account…
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The recent increase in state-sponsored cyber campaigns have not diminished in the short term. US Cyber Command has reported that non-state actors were exploiting the long-non-patched Outlook 2017 vulnerability, to escape the…
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In a previous article here in Hackercombat.com, we have featured the story of Iran’s APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) team, which is not at all surprising given the country’s continued diplomatic…
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A city in Florida paid $ 500,000 to the hackers after a ransomware attack. The total amount the city of Florida has paid for ransomware in the past two weeks…
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Electronic Arts fixes security vulnerabilities in its Origin online gaming platform after security researchers found that they could trick gamers to remotely execute malicious code on their computers The flaw…
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An independent investigation by the Belgian police found the suspect in a bank explosion, was linked to multiple cyber-attack charges against the same bank. Even worse, they also discovered that…
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In December 2016, this teenager, Daniel Kelley, was warned that he will be detained for his involvement in hacking millions of pounds of TalkTalk data. Having said that Kelley As…
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A “sophisticated cyber espionage event” began in February 2017. Russian entities are said to be behind piracy, a source told BuzzFeed News. The European Union embassy in Moscow was compromised…
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Two thousand unauthorized access attempts in 48-hours, that is how New Zealand’s Treasury Secretary in coordination with the National Cyber Security Centre described the budget information record hacking incident that…
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Malware authors continue to find ways to operate at a more sophisticated level, especially Advanced Persistent Threats (APT). Known as ScarCruft team, as exposed by Kaspersky Lab for establishing espionage…
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