Twitter API Bug Enables Third Party Access to User Data
ehackingnews.com - A Twitter API bug discovered earlier this month could have enabled unauthorised third-party developers to access the user data.
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Samsung fixed three vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to take control of users' accounts.
ehackingnews.com - A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Samsung's account management system has been taken care of by the company. The vulnerability which was identified by Artem Moskowsky, a Ukrainian bug bounty hunter, allowed hackers to take over any Samsung account by exploiting the users' gulli...
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LamePyre: The macOS Malware That Captures And Delivers Screenshots To Cyber-Cons
ehackingnews.com - <b><u>LamePyre: The macOS Malware That Captures And Delivers Screenshots To Cyber-Cons </u></b> <b><u> </u></b> <b><i>The list of malware seems to be never ending as it recently welcomed another one in, which goes by the name of OSX.LamePyre and delivers screenshots to the cyber-con behind...
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The WatchGuard Threat Lab’s 2019 Security Predictions
ehackingnews.com - <b>1. Fileless, Self-Propagating “Vaporworms” Attack.</b> Fileless malware strains will exhibit wormlike properties in 2019, allowing them to self-propagate by exploiting software vulnerabilities. Fileless malware is more difficult for traditional endpoint detection to identify and block because ...
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Android Malware Steals 1,000 Euros In Around 5 Seconds Via PayPal
ehackingnews.com - Another malware discovered in November masked as a battery enhancement application—called Android Optimization is as of late been brought into highlight to have been customized in such a way so as to send 1,000 euros to cyberthieves by means of PayPal in around 5 seconds and all this without the ...
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Hackers stole 1 billion Rubles from a number of large Russian banks
ehackingnews.com - Participants of the criminal community through the Internet were able to steal more than 15 million dollars from the major Banks of Ukraine and Russia. Defendants face up to 15 years in a high security colony. According to police, the head of the organized criminal community is a citizen of Ukra...
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Blockpass and Infinito Wallet Launch Most Secure KYC-Enabled Security Token Wallet
ehackingnews.com - HONG KONG, Dec 12, 2018 - (ACN Newswire) - Blockpass and Infinito Wallet have announced the launch of the world's most secure and convenient KYC-enabled security token wallet, providing regulatory compliance while putting traders in full control of their security tokens. The wallet is an integrat...
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Malware ‘Operation Sharpshooter’ hits government and defense firms: McAfee
ehackingnews.com - McAfee's research team have found a new malware campaign that has targeted dozens of private and government organizations around the world. The malware campaign dubbed as “Operation Sharpshooter” has targeted more than 100 organizations in 24 countries in just a few weeks. The organizations wer...
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Google+ hit by second bug, exposes data of 52 million users
ehackingnews.com - Google has announced that it would now shut down the consumer version of Google+ from April 2019 instead of the initial deadline of August 2019. The decision came in the wake of another massive data breach which compromised the data of 52.5 million users. The data that was configured to stay o...
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Another Bug In Google+ Paves Way For The Platform’s Early Shut-Down
ehackingnews.com - <b><u> </u></b> <b><i>In light of yet another bug discovered by Google in its social network that goes by the name of Google+, the platform’s close-down is proximate.</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> Reportedly, the glitch has affected Over 52 million users. Despite the account’s being set to pri...
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Toyota Develops a Car Hacking Tool 'PASTA'
ehackingnews.com - A security researcher at an automobile maker Toyota has developed an open source tool dubbed as PASTA (Portable Automotive Security Testbed) for testing the cyber vulnerabilities in modern vehicles. The researcher Takuya Yoshida, who is a member of Toyota's InfoTechnology Center, demonstrated th...
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Hackers collect the data of Russians for the introduction of new sanctions
ehackingnews.com - There are hacker groups in Russia that are looking for potential candidates among Russians for inclusion in the sanctions lists for Europeans and Americans. This was announced at the AntiFraud event by the Head of the Group-IB company Ilya Sachkov. Sachkov said that cyber criminals collected in...
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Sextortion Scams At a Rise Yet Again; Now Leading To Ransomware
ehackingnews.com - In the recent times the sextortion email scams have been at a high rise as they have proved time and time again to being quite a significant and effective method for producing easy money for the hoodlums. A sextortion scam is basically when an individual receives an email stating that they have b...
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Russian Financial Institutions And Enterprises Targeted By Massive Malware Attached Emails
ehackingnews.com - According to information security experts, one such successful “operation” can bring to cyber criminals more than a million rubles (about 15,000 $). More than 700 messages with the Trojan came to major Russian credit organizations. The senders allegedly were State institutions, one of them is Mi...
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UPI apps hijacked, victims lost ₹12 lakh
ehackingnews.com - In Kerala, the bank accounts of at least three customers were wiped clean wherein the sum that was lost totaled around 12 lakh. All the three victims used a United Payments Interface (UPI) smartphone application for "account to account" electronic cash transfer and this element of commonali...
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Around 40 Customers Of Punjab National Bank Got Whacked Down By An “ATM Fraud”
ehackingnews.com - <b><u> </u></b> <b><u> </u></b> <b><i>The New Delhi Police are up and about, inquiring into an ATM fraud wherein around 40 customers of Punjab National Bank got tricked and ripped off of their money a few minutes after they used their ATM at the Sheikh Sarai branch.</i></b> <b><i> </i></b> <...
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100,000 windows users hit in China by new ransomware
ehackingnews.com - Ransomware attacks may have dwindled since the destructive days of WannaCry and NotPetya last year, but a new one has struck mobile-centric China and it's asking for ransom through one of the country's most popular methods of payment. The hackers are distributing rigged apps, disguised as social...
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New Ransomware Strain Hits the Chinese Web; Infects 100K PCs
ehackingnews.com - More than 100,000 Chinese users have had their Windows PCs infected with yet another strain of ransomware that encodes their records and files all the while requesting a 110 yuan (~$16) ransom. The inadequately composed ransomware is known to have been scrambling local documents and taking creden...
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Phishing Emails Requests Gift Card Purchases
ehackingnews.com - Hackers are doing their best to maximum utilize the holidays for financial gain. The attackers have launched a new spear phishing attack in which they pose as CEOs of the victim's workplace to trick them by sending gift cards, a per report of email security researchers at Barracuda Networks. ...
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Cisco patched SQL injection vulnerability
ehackingnews.com - Cisco Patched a critical SQL Injection Vulnerability in Cisco Prime License Manager which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries. SQL injection is a code injection technique, in which attackers take non-validated input vulnerabilities and inject SQL commands t...