Creator of one of the most feared and successful cybercrime tools, Blackhole Exploit Kit, known as ‘Paunch’ has been arrested along with 12 others and has been charged with creating and participating…
Tag: Hacker
Vodafone Iceland hacked; data of over 70k users stolen
Vodafone Iceland was hacked on November 29 within initial breach only pegged to website defacement; however, after initial investigation the company confirmed that attackers have had accessed customer information as well as…
LulzSec’s Jeremy Hammond gets 10 years for Stratfor hack
Jeremy Hammond has been sentenced to 10 years in jail plus an additional 3 years of supervised release for his involvement in Stratfor hack. The LulzSec hacker was sentenced at the federal…
Adobe: At least 38 million users impacted; Photoshop source code accessed by hackers
Update @ 21:09 GMT Wiebke Lips, Sr. Manager Corporate Communication at Adobe, has clarified in an emailed statement that Adobe is still investigating the security breach and the information pertaining to 2.9…
Briton charged with hacking US Government, military networks
Lauri Love, a Briton in his late twenties, has been arrested in UK on charges of violating the Computer Misuse Act in the UK and accessing a U.S. government computer without permission…
Adobe hackers may have hacked PR Newswire
PR Newswire, one of the most popular marketing and press release distribution services, was hacked on or after March 8 it has been revealed. According to a report by Brian Krebs hackers…
Shortage of cyber crime fighters to affect anti-hacker fight back
Governments and corporations facing cyber attacks are struggling hard to search for the right cyber warriors that too in enough numbers to fight back against increasing cyber attacks. According to reports, Government…
AVG.com, Whatsapp.com hacked by pro-Palestinian hackers
Update [08/10/2013 18:55 GMT] According to latest reports, it seems that DNS hijacking was indeed the culprit which led to defacement of both the sites. Hackers would have likely exploited some security…
Alleged 16-year old Spamhaus attacker arrested in UK 5 months back
Britain’s National Cyber Crime Unit (BNCCU) reportedly arrested a teenager back in April on suspicion that he was involved in the attack on Spamhaus which slowed down the internet in March. The…