FBI Shutters Russian-Based Hacker Platform, Makes …

[ad_1] The Deer.io platform let cybercriminals buy access to virtual storefronts where they could sell illicit products and services. The FBI this week shut down Deer.io, a Russia-based hacker platform through which criminals could buy access to virtual storefronts and sell illegal products or services. Officials arrested its suspected administrator, alleged Russian hacker Kirill Victorovich
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Learn how to be an ethical hacker with this $39 in-depth training bundle

[ad_1] It seems like there’s a new data breach every month, and as hackers ramp up their efforts to steal our private info, it’s only natural to feel afraid. What can you do to fight back? Oddly enough, the best way to prevent cybersecurity attacks is by fighting fire with fire. As an ethical hacker,
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US Sets $5 Million Bounty For Russian Hacker Behind …

[ad_1] Maksim Yakubets and his crew stole tens of millions using Zeus and Dridex, with victims including Bank of America, Key Bank, GenLabs, and United Dairy, DoJ says. The US State Department in collaboration with the US Department of Justice and the FBI Thursday announced an unprecedented $5 million reward for information leading to the
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Why Multifactor Authentication Is Now a Hacker Target

[ad_1] SIM swaps, insecure web design, phishing, and channel-jacking are four ways attackers are circumventing MFA technology, according to the FBI. The growing adoption of multifactor authentication (MFA) has resulted in a proportionate rise in cyberattacks that target MFA technologies. In a recent Private Industry Notification (PIN), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) recognized how
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This 12-course bundle will teach you how to be an ethical hacker for $39

[ad_1] It seems like there’s a new data breach every month, and as hackers ramp up their efforts to steal our private info, it’s only natural to feel afraid. What can you do to fight back? Oddly enough, the best way to prevent cybersecurity attacks is by fighting fire with fire. As an ethical hacker,
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Suspected Hacker Group Creates Network of Fake LinkedIn Profiles

[ad_1] Author: Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ Threat Intelligence Date: 07 October 2015 Summary While tracking a suspected Iran-based threat group known as Threat Group-2889[1] (TG-2889), Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers uncovered a network of fake LinkedIn profiles. These convincing profiles form a self-referenced network of seemingly established LinkedIn users. CTU researchers assess
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How to Think Like a Hacker

[ad_1] In the arms race of computer security, it’s never been more important to develop an adversarial mindset that can identify assumptions and determine if and how they can be violated. Computer security is a very unique field. Unlike other fields in which the challenge is to overcome the scale of a problem or the
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JP Morgan Hacker Pleads Guilty

[ad_1] Russian national Andrei Tyurin, who was extradited to the US last year by Georgian officials for allegedly hacking JP Morgan Chase in 2014 as well as several other cyberattacks on US financial and other organizations, now faces sentencing after a guilty plea in US District Court. Tyurin, 35, was involved in a wide-ranging hacking campaign that
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BRONZE BUTLER Hacker Group Targets Japanese Enterprises

[ad_1] Summary Secureworks® incident responders and Counter Threat Unit™ (CTU) researchers investigated activities associated with the BRONZE BUTLER (also known as Tick) threat group, which likely originates in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). BRONZE BUTLER’s operations suggest a long-standing intent to exfiltrate intellectual property and other confidential data from Japanese organizations. Intrusions observed by
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Common Hacker Tool Hit with Hackable Vulnerability

[ad_1] Enterprise VulnerabilitiesFrom DHS/US-CERT’s National Vulnerability Database CVE-2018-6339PUBLISHED: 2019-06-14 When receiving calls using WhatsApp on Android, a stack allocation failed to properly account for the amount of data being passed in. An off-by-one error meant that data was written beyond the allocated space on the stack. This issue affects WhatsApp for Android starting in
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