Telegram traffic was hijacked
On July 30, the data of the encrypted chat program Telegram was hijacked by the Iranian state-owned telecommunications company. This action appeared to be a BGP hijacking, that is, an...
Category: Cyber Security
Three Ukrainian hackers arrested for stealing 15 million credit card records in the US
Three Ukrainian citizens were recently arrested for participating in a long-term cyberattack against more than 100 US companies. According to the indictment, the group has stolen more than 15 million credit...
The hacker stole $7.7 million digital currency from KICKICO
The hacker stole a $7.7 million digital currency from the KICKICO platform, using a novel approach—destroying existing coins to create the same amount of SGD to a hacker-controlled address. This method escaped KICKICO’s surveillance...
Check Point Cyber Attack Trends 2018 Mid-Year Report: Hackers Target Cloud Infrastructure
Check Point recently released ” Cyber Attack Trends 2018 Mid-Year Report”, pointing out that cybercriminals are using cryptocurrency (Cryptomining) malware to attack corporate attacks, thereby increasing illegal sources of income. At the...
Report: China is on top 1 on Distribution of DDoS attacks
Recently, Kaspersky analysed the DDoS attack in the second quarter of 2018. The report was detailed and lengthy. For the convenience of reading, this article has compiled some contents. Overview...
APT group OilRig targets Middle Eastern countries
OilRig, also known as Helix Kitten or APT34, is an APT organisation primarily active in the Middle East. The organisation is believed to have been established in 2015 and has...
Chile reports that 14,000 credit card was stolen by hackers
The Chilean government revealed on the evening of 25th that hackers had stolen information on about 14,000 credit cards in Chile and posted the information on social media. According to...
Hackers target Oracle WebLogic Servers after the release of PoC code
Hackers recently launched attacks on Oracle WebLogic servers and tried to control vulnerable devices that have not patched after the vulnerability published. The vulnerability exploited by the hacker is CVE-2018-2893,...
Hackers use three malware simultaneously in cyber espionage against Ukraine
ESET, a security company based in Bratislava, Slovakia, recently released a 19-page technical analysis report detailing three types of malware that they are using simultaneously in cyber espionage against Ukrainian...
National Security Agency chief forms a special action team to counter Russia cyber threat
U.S. cyber commander and director of the National Security Agency, Paul Nakasone recently confirmed that he has set up a special action team to solve the threat posed by Russia...
Personal data of 1.5 million people in Singapore was stolen by hackers
Singapore media reported that the country had suffered the most significant cyber attack to date, with 1.5 million outpatients visiting hospitals and clinics under the Singapore Health Care Group from May 1,...
Microsoft claims that hackers launched spear-phishing campaigns against three 2018 midterm candidate
Microsoft revealed that some hackers attempted to use a fake Microsoft website to launch a phishing attack on three mid-term candidates in the US Congress. Tom Burt, vice president of corporate...
Hackers steal $910,000 from Russia’s PIR Bank
The hacker group MoneyTaker stole about $910,000 from the Russian PIR Bank earlier this month. The hacker‘s attack on PIR Bank began in May when they first invaded a router in the bank’s...
Hackers use social engineering technique to extortion of bitcoin
Although the overall price of virtual currency has fallen sharply from the beginning of the year, it has not affected the confidence of global virtual currency supporters and hackers. Earlier...
Cisco’s Talos found a hacking campaign that targets iPhone users
Security experts at the Cisco Talos team have recently discovered a “highly targeted” hacking campaign that uses a mobile malware that has been active for at least since August 2015. Security...
