A hacker who use’s the handle @FailRooT has said to of been arrested and had computers seized as part of a investigation into the hacking by the team they ran called @MetalSoftTeam. Metal Soft Team has been around for some time now and have made a name for themselves as defacers, hacking sites and leaving them with…
Category: Breach Incidents
Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach
Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say. Read more on NextGov.
Federal Reserve Vulnerable to hackers
A hacker going by the handle D35m0nd142 has posted information about the federalreserve.com website that shows its vuln to attackers. Now its a worry that such websites are hackable with such minor hacks and shows that the governments are clearly not thinking about security the way they should be. https://pastebin.com/QM9kLnPB
NASDAQ website taken offline by hackers
Hackers using the handle L0NGwave99 have claimed to taken down the www.nasdaq.com website whcih is now showing a time out error. For the second day, the Destributed Denial of Service operation on the www.nasdaq.com continued execution. If you go to NASDAQ site https://www.nasdaq.com you will not see anything execpt timeout or nothing. This DDoS Operation over…
Anonymous gets hacked, Anonyops.com hacked and defaced?
content/images/gallery/random3/freezepage-anonyops-hacked.png Well it would appear that a hacker using the handle Exotz has done one one anonyops.com an anonymous news related websites/blog that has strong affilation with the anonymous movement. The defacing which happened not to long ago features what appears to be a new post with the following message. and image. Such an unfortunate accident,…
Thai Government hacked and defaced by Saadi n Hax.r00t
content/images/gallery/random3/f.png The thai government has come under attack from two well known hackers Saadi n Hax.r00t who often leave many sites defaced. The target https://osm.opdc.go.th/main.php was still defaced at time of publish and features some funny stuff like they have set them selfs as "Hax.r00t is now president of .th Saadi is now Prime Minister ". https://arab-zone.net/mirror/94981/osm.opdc.go.th/main.php