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Russian state hackers exploit WinRAR vulnerability

Russian state hackers exploit WinRAR vulnerability

Russian state-affiliated hacker gang APT29 is exploiting the CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR 6.23 and older versions. A combined tactic of "old-school phishing and new cloaking capabilities" is used for this purpose. This is what the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NDSC) ind... Read more

date19 days ago
Octo Tempest: Microsoft warns of aggressive hacker gang

Octo Tempest: Microsoft warns of aggressive hacker gang

Microsoft recently published details about the hyper-aggressive Octo Tempest hackers. This hacker gang carries out its attacks through various methods and demands a ransom for stolen data through threats. According to Microsoft, Octo Tempest is one of the most aggressive hacker gangs it has enco... Read more

date1 month ago
Kevin Mitnick, former most wanted hacker, dies at 59

Kevin Mitnick, former most wanted hacker, dies at 59

Kevin Mitnick, who became one of the world's most wanted hackers in the 1990s, has died at the age of 59 from pancreatic cancer. Mitnick also made a name for himself as a security consultant, author and speaker. "Much of his life reads like a fiction story. The word that most of us who knew him ... Read more

date5 months ago
Data of half a million people at risk in hack on Red Cross

Data of half a million people at risk in hack on Red Cross

An enormous hack has hit the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The personal data of as many as 515,000 people has been stolen. The perpetrator of the attack is unknown at this time. According to the IRCR, the hackers managed to steal personal information from databases of at least... Read more

date2 years ago
Hacker offers access to C-level executives email accounts

Hacker offers access to C-level executives email accounts

On a closed-access underground forum used by Russian hackers, a cybercriminal is selling passwords for email accounts belonging to hundreds of C-level execs in companies all over the world. The forum is named Exploit.in and was discovered just last week. The hacker is selling email, and password... Read more

date3 years ago
Design tool Canva victim of proud hacker

Design tool Canva victim of proud hacker

At the end of last week, the design and marketing tool Canva became the victim of a hack. The service now advises users to change their password as a precaution. Last weekend, Canva discovered a security problem. A hacker entered the system, and ran off with usernames and email addresses. Canva imme... Read more

date5 years ago
Hacker empties out Git repositories and asks for ransom money

Hacker empties out Git repositories and asks for ransom money

Hundreds of developers have fallen victim to a hacker who has cleared out the Git source repositories and replaced them with a ransom demand. The attacks seem to be coordinated across different hosting services, such as GitHub, Bitbucket and GitLab. The attacks started on Friday, reports ZDNet. It i... Read more

date5 years ago
Hacker steals 932 million user data in two months

Hacker steals 932 million user data in two months

A hacker named Gnosticplayers has managed to steal 932 million user data from 44 companies in just two months. The hacker already talked to ZDNet in February about wanting to sell the data of over a billion users, writes the website. Since mid-February, the hacker has been posting series of hacked ... Read more

date5 years ago
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