Hacking

PayPal notified clients on Friday that private data for 1.6 million individuals may have been stolen by hackers who breached the systems of its subsidiary TIO Networks, which is a Canadian organization that operates a network of over 60,000 utility and bills payment kiosks across North America. PayPal acquired it […]

The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the Shadow BTCware Ransomware which is manually installed on unsecured systems. The security expert Michael Gillespie discovered a new variant of the BTCWare ransomware, the malicious code was spread by hacking into poorly protected remote desktop services and manually installed by crooks. The new Shadow BTCware Ransomware variant appends […]

Two different critical vulnerabilities were found in the RSA Authentication SDK (software development kit), patch them asap. The first bug, tracked as  CVE-2017-14377, is authentication bypass that affects the RSA Authentication Agent for Web for Apache Web Server. The flaw could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated user by sending a crafted packet that […]

The trend of generating cryptocurrency is increasing, thanks to the growing popularity and rise in the value of the Bitcoin. Some use cryptocurrency mining software while some embed mining codes on their website and take advantage of visitors’ CPU time whenever they visit the site. The Pirate Bay and CBS’s ShowTimes websites were some […]

Nothing is surprising about a PayPal phishing scam but what might raise some eyebrows is the fact that these scams are becoming sophisticated day by day. Usually, phishing scams look for users’ login credentials but recently, HackRead.com discovered a scam that aims at stealing everything from a PayPal users, and […]

An email with the subject of Fwd: derek ( recipient’s name)  pretending to come from Pamela <logo@mensperl.edu> ( probably random senders)  with a malicious word doc attachment  delivers some sort of malware, but I don’t know what The word doc is passworded and you need to use the password from the email […]

A recently disclosed severe 17-year-old vulnerability in Microsoft Office that lets hackers install malware on targeted computers without user interaction is now being exploited in the wild to distribute a backdoor malware. First spotted by researchers at security firm Fortinet, the malware has been dubbed Cobalt because it uses a […]