NBC site redirecting to Exploit kit
- Feb
- 24
We became aware that the NBC[.]com website is redirecting to malicious websites that contains exploit kit. At this point it seems like most of the pages contains an iframe that is redirecting to the first stage of the RedKit exploit kit. Some twitter users are already poiting out some of these bad pages. Some of […]
read moreAaron Swartz suicide sparks Anonymous to hack US Government Sites
- Jan
- 27
Hackers working under the name of the Anonymous hacktivist collective hit a U.S. government website on Saturday, replacing its home page with a 1,340 word text detailing its frustrations with the way the American legal system works and a threat to release “secrets” gathered from U.S. government websites. The website of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, […]
read moreFormer Anonymous members jailed in U.K. for PayPal, Visa DDoS attacks
- Jan
- 25
Three men were sentenced Thursday in the U.K. for their roles in a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks launched against financial and music industry organizations in 2010 by the Anonymous hacktivist collective.
read moreThe Real Hunt for Red October
- Jan
- 21
A Russian security company, Kaspersky Labs, detected and identified a new spyware dubbed, ‘Rocra’ meaning ‘Red October’. The Red October (Rocra) campaign, was designed to steal—including encrypted files and from mobile devices—and has successfully infiltrated government, diplomatic and scientific agencies. Rocra is a new kind of virus, that goes undetected for long periods of time […]
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