Aimee Chanthadavong reports: A decade-long cyber espionage operation focused on stealing sensitive information for the Chinese government is claimed to have been uncovered by security firm FireEye. The FireEye intelligence report (PDF), APT30 and the Mechanics of a Long-Running Cyber Espionage Operation, has revealed that the group, dubbed APT30, has been maintaining an advanced persistent threat…
Category: Hack
Here’s a tip for some Crime Stoppers in Canada: you’ve been hacked (UPDATED)
April 14: See update and possible correction at the bottom of this post concerning the storage and encryption of tips. TeaMp0isoN claims that one of the sites they recently “audited” was the web site of Waterloo Crime Stoppers. In a zine about what they describe as a 0day SQLi attack, TeaMp0isoN writes that they found an unprotected…
TeaMp0isoN reveals schools’ vulnerabilities
Reading @_TeaMp0isoN_’s Twitter timeline last night and this morning was somewhat disheartening. Tweet after tweet identified vulnerabilities that would enable hackers access to universities’ sites. For each school named, TeaMp0isoN indicated the type of vulnerability they had found and the vulnerable url. In some cases, if the university has a Twitter account, TeaMp0isoN included their Twitter account…
Hacker gets 10 years in jail for spying on Colombia peace process
I’m always reluctant to rely on Fox News for anything, but they seem to have the only English-language news coverage of this development: A Colombian court sentenced hacker Andres Sepulveda to 10 years in prison after he admitted to various crimes, including spying on the government’s peace talks with the FARC, and accepted the prosecution’s…
Ca: Quebec Anonymous takes credit for hacking Montreal police website
Kate McKenna reports: The Quebec branch of the online hacker collective Anonymous is taking credit for infiltrating the websites of the Montreal police and the union representing its officers. Op Fry The SPVM | Target: DOWN | Montreal Fraternal Order Of Police – http://t.co/S2fH2vb0hF | #Anonymous#FuckSPVM pic.twitter.com/ctgBRRicNC — Anonymous Quebec (@QuebecAnon) April 11, 2015 Around 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, the Montreal…
OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Website, Leaks Thousands of Login Data
Waqas writes: Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and pasted in three different parts on Pastie sites for #OpIsrael. After analyzing the data we found out that data…