Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Hackers.
Windows had one of the worst vulnerabilities patched this year, but those who did not update, are at risk of exploitation by malicious hackers. Microsoft warned those lagging to update now. CVE-2020-1472 is the name given to the vulnerability. It allows hackers to access the Active Directory. Th... Read more
4 years ago
Edwin, Mattijs, and Victor are three old chaps from the Netherlands who were able to access Donald Trump's Twitter account in 2016 when they extracted his password from a LinkedIn hack that happened back in 2012. The three men told reporters that they got the login details from a database that w... Read more
4 years ago
A new vulnerability has been found in the Bluetooth wireless standard. Hackers can exploit it to connect to devices remotely in any given area and access phone apps. The flaw has since been named Blurtooth and was described in detail by the Bluetooth SIG industry body that oversees the standard dev... Read more
4 years ago
WordPress is under fire after hackers discovered a vulnerability in the popular plugin 'File Manager.' Millions of WordPress sites have been probed to find the weakness and exploit it this past week. According to Defiant, the company behind the Wordfence web firewall, the sites attacked could be mo... Read more
4 years ago
The latest report from one of the top cybersecurity firms, Kaspersky, revealed that cybercriminals are advancing their phishing attacks. These criminals are taking advantage of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic to develop new ideas on how to deploy their malware. Researchers from Kaspersky said t... Read more
4 years ago
Hackers can penetrate corporate systems very fast. Businesses need to be alert to avoid being caught off-guard now that hackers are conducting most attacks with minimal experience. They are succeeding because loopholes exist everywhere. A recent report from Positive Technologies revealed that ha... Read more
4 years ago
Researchers from the FireEye Mandiant cybersecurity platform have reported that the most sophisticated hacking operations are now refocusing on attacking Microsoft Office 365. Office 365 provides endpoint and cloud services, including Office, Outlook, SharePoint, Exchange, Teams, and OneDrive, t... Read more
4 years ago
Hackers from North Korea are directing their attacks to target U.S. defense and aerospace industries. “Operation North Star” is the name given to the malicious attacks which targeted employees and other sensitive parties affiliated to the sectors. The operation used documents, advertising jo... Read more
4 years ago
In a recent report from SonicWall Capture Labs, ransomware cases have risen by 20% in the first half of 2020. A total of 121.2 million attacks were recorded, with 79.9 million in the US and 5.9 million in the UK. The increase could partly be attributed to the current 'work from home' situation, ... Read more
4 years ago
Twitter accounts of a large group of celebrities were hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. Among the victims were Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and presidential candidate Joe Biden. Not only celebrities fell victim to these hacks, but accounts of large companies such as Apple and... Read more
4 years ago
