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19 Sep

Red Alert 2.0: New Android Banking Trojan for Sale on Hacking Forums

The Recent discoveries of dangerous variants of the Android banking Trojan families, including Faketoken, Svpeng, and BankBot, present a significant threat to online users who may have their login credentials and valuable personal data stolen. Security researchers from SfyLabs have...
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13 May

0-Day Flaws in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites

A security researcher has publicly disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums, an open source software that powers discussion on over 500,000 websites, which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to fully compromise targeted websites easily. Discovered by Polish security...
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12 May

Unpatched 0-Days in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites

1 Feb

Popular PlayStation and Xbox Gaming Forums Hacked; 2.5 Million Users’ Data Leaked

Do you own an account on one of the two hugely popular PlayStation and Xbox gaming forums? Your details may have been exposed, as it has been revealed that the two popular video gaming forums, “XBOX360 ISO” and “PSP ISO,”...
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21 Jan

Clash Royale Forums Hacked but Game Accounts Still Secure

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Supercell, the company behind the super-popular mobile game Clash Royale, suffered a breach in September that might have exposed its users. A community manager announced on the firm’s forums that hackers...
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26 Jul

Critical patches from multiple vendors, Ubuntu forums hacked: Security news IT leaders need to know

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans This week’s highlights also include Adobe patches, Drupal bugs and fixes from both Oracle and Cisco. Critical bugs in Drupal The core product and three contributed modules for the popular open...
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6 Nov

He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital dimension. Terrorist organisations have turned social networks and online forums into recruitment hotbeds and propaganda mechanisms. We need a security apparatus in the digital space to address this threat. Hackers are the face of this digital army.” The actor said he is bringing his whole team including scriptwriters of the show to observe and interact with the ethical hacker community. (Also Read: Tabu Has Shown Interest in 24, Says Director ) “From November 22, I will start shooting for 24. It will go on air in 2016. When an actor prepares for a role, we often start to live like the character. Some call it method acting. We meet real life people like the character and try to understand their nuances, their life,” he said. As per the summit’s website, speakers will share details of the espionage mission as well as hold sessions on hacking of cellular networks, medical devices in hospitals, using technical loopholes in them. The consortium claims to have discovered cyber espionage operation under which phones of Indian Army personnel, who had downloaded some mobile application related to news, had been compromised by hackers based in Pakistan. IIC CEO Jiten Jain has said that the findings were handed over to security agencies who promptly acted and sanitised the infected handset early this year.

Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans He is special guest at the Ground Zero Summit 2015 being organised by Indian Infosec Consortium – a group of ethical hackers. “Threat to national security has moved to the digital...
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15 Aug

Utterly new Trojan in Black Hat forums

An RSA researcher has found an entirely new Trojan during his seeks of the criminal underground. RSA researcher Eli Marcus says the “Pandemiya” Trojan comprises about 25,000 lines of fresh code. Marcus speculated the Trojan was relatively unknown until now...
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