Today the Syria Electronic Army @Official_SEA16 has announced a breach on popular news website vice.com. The attack was announced from twitter just a short time ago as well as a picture of the vice’s administrator panel allowing them to have full control over all content. As a result of the breach the SEA have left the…
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REMEMBER EMAD Attacks DoD: Claim
Remember Emad, a hacking crew that claimed to have attacked Israeli sites in March 2012, and to have attacked an Israeli Webgate server in August 2012 and dumped data, has apparently claimed to have attacked the Pentagon. Seen on Cryptome, August 1: from : REMEMBER EMAD crew to : Pentagon subject : op910 we are responsible…
Hacker group targets Skype social media accounts
John Ribeiro reports: Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks. “You may have noticed our social media properties were targeted today,” Skype said in a Twitter message late Wednesday. “No user info was compromised. We’re sorry for the inconvenience.” Read…
More than 1,400 Financial institutions in 88 Countries targeted by Banking Trojan in 2013
Swati Khandelwal writes: As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many more. The financial malware’s were the most popular threat this year….
Outbrain takes recommendation widget service offline after breach compromises Washington Post, others
Outbrain disabled its content recommendation service after a security breach compromised the websites of several prominent clients. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has taken credit for the attack, which is believed to have affected the Washington Post, Time, CNN, and the New York Times. Read more on TheNextWeb.
Official PERL Blogs hacked, 2,924 Author Credentials Leaked by ICR
Today the Islamic Cyber Resistance (ICR) has announced a breach on the official Perl blogs (https://blogs.perl.org) The breach has seen 2,924 user account credentials published to quickleak.org as well as the blog having a deface page added but was not obtrusive to the actually website. In the release note posted by the hackers they state the…