Tag Archives: Malware

An anonymous hacker has managed to breach the security features of PakWheels, a common automotive website in Pakistan, and make away with data of about 700 registered users of the account. Reports by LeakedSource, a site that reports all sites that have been breached, indicates that the PakWheels breach occurred …

Kaspersky Lab has said that a new form of Trojan horse known as Switcher can successfully infiltrate Wi-Fi networks, hijack the traffic to fake DNS servers and expose users to phishing attacks. According to Nikita Buchka, who analyses new types of malware programs at Kaspersky Labs, the group operating the …

The Turkish government has blocked TOR and VPN services in the country. Investigations indicate that the blockade was implemented sometime in mid-December after the government announced that it was taking measures to safeguard national security in the crisis-hit country. As per last week, users could not successfully bypass restrictions using …

Hackers have breached the servers of Kagoya, a famous web hosting company in Japan, and made away with credit card information of millions of users. The company has sent an email to its clients, indicating that it has discovered a massive breach of its security. According to the company, the …

A hacker has claimed to have successfully hacked into the accounts of a prominent blockchain investor and stolen millions of dollars. The hacker, through a series of tweets of a hijacked Twitter account, claims to have breached the accounts of Bon Shen, one of the leading investors in Blockchain. Bon …

We have all been in situations where Google Maps has come up and saved us from being lost and actually given us the correct location, but imagine cases whereby the Map application showed you the wrong place and showed you a wrong place. If the thing happened in previous years …

One cunning malware which is surprisingly low tech has been seen spreading over the week through a new attack vector, and the problem is worrying security researchers. The malware program works by exploiting some flaws which they see on the Facebook and LinkedIn platforms. One Israeli security firm, Check Point …

The FBI is said to have hacked thousands of computers around the world, and it did all of this based on just one warrant. And some deem the warrant to be illegal. According to one of the defendants in the case, Colin Fieman, there has never been a case where …

Telecommunications Company, Three mobile have confirmed that they suffered a hack in a massive way in which data of about 133,000 users was compromised as a result. The mobile operator however assuaged fears by noting that there was no financial information including passwords and bank details which was accessed by …

The new Google Pixel and Pixel XL phones that the company recently released are holding their own in the smartphone market and to an extent can be called a hit. The search giant claimed during the release of the phones that the phone is as secure as it gets, and …