content/images/gallery/random3/capture_3.png A few weeks ago we got word that one of the main members of a hacker team who goes by the handle Metal soft team was detained and had computers seized as part of an investigation into the recent string of attacks. As a result other team members have continued or defaced websites with a new message,…
Category: Breach Incidents
WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million STRATFOR eMails
EDIT: It is 00:47 UTC right now. The WikiLeaks site appears to be back up, for the time being. The release can be found at https://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html?nocache. And users are to index them on Twitter with the hashtag #gifiles At 00:00 UTC the whistle blower site WikiLeaks published no less than 5,000,000 (5 milion) emails. They…
WikiLeaks starts to publish hacked Stratfor emails
Stephen Grey reports: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor,…
1749 French based Sites Defaced by CwGhost.
content/images/gallery/random3/capture_2.png thehacknews.com has come across a very interesting hack and mass deface that has left 1749 French based websites all with the same page. The deface page features the below message first then several pictures of graphic nature then has 4 youtube videos attemtping to explian the reasons behind these attacks. the attacks have been…
Malaysia Yellow Pages WebSite Hacked and Data Leaked by eMP3R0r TEAM
Malaysia Yellow Pages has become one of the latest yellow pages websites to be hacked and have data leaked by hackers this week. Hackers going under the team name of eMP3R0r TEAM have tipped us off to an attack that has leaked about 40 accounts from the websites database. The leak is in the format of…
Two India Based Sites Hacked And Accounts Leaked
A hacker using the handle cowboyhack3r’s has attacked two India based websites and obtained a dump of accounts from each via SQL injection. The two websites are https://www.ushnakmals.com/home.php which is a clothing and designer websites and the other https://www.shaktibiotech.in is self described as "ShaktiBiotech is a dedicated team consisting of well experienced marketing professionals, a well developed research wing, software engineers…