Many celebrity official YouTube channels have been hacked. It’s unclear if a bug in YouTube have led these channels hacked or hackers gained access to their accounts by hacking into their emails. However, the following celebrity accounts were hacked at the time of publishing this news article:- Shakira (ShakiraVEVO) Selena Gomez (SelenaGomezVEVO) Chris Brown (ChrisBrownVEVO) Luis […]
WAPDA – Pakistan Water and Power Development Authority Website Hacked by Indian Hackers
WAPDA, Water and Power Development Authority of Pakistan is hacked by Indian Hackers hindering any information dissemination and activity through the site. WAPDA is a Pakistan government agency that has an official website at www.wapda.gov.pk/license.html . The site is used so that the government can easily reach out to its citizens and to everyone about […]
GitHub website faces 1.3Tbps DDos Attack
The famous website for the cybersecurity had faced the DDos attack on Wednesday, about 1.3Tbps hits the GitHub website. The attacker had not used any kind of botnets, but had used a Memcached server vulnerability to perform this DDos Attack. This is the world’s largest DDos Attack performed against any website. The Attack has done through port number […]
MWC18: Hackers uses Mobile phones to Mine for cryptocurrency
Cybersecurity firm Avast is using its resources at Mobile World Congress (#MWC18) in Barcelona to uncover the security vulnerabilities of the Internet of Things. People are mining Monero, the well-known cryptocurrency, utilizing a smart TV, without the owners’ consent. Whenever you visit a website or access some service on your TV, malicious code could hijack […]
Terdot: Banking Malware-Espionage Tool Stealing Social Media and Email Accounts
Zeus malware is back with a vengeance. A spin-off of the banking trojan, now with revamped espionage capabilities, was recently discovered by security researchers. It’s called Terdot, a trojan that’s been active since mid-2016 and highly customized to conduct (MitM) man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept any traffic on an infected computer. The malware was also designed […]