Tag Archives: hackers

Hackers broke into the computers at the French finance ministry in a “spectacular” raid that forced the ministry to make changes to 10,000 computers over the weekend. The BBC reports that more than 150 of the ministry’s computers were affected, …

Researchers have discovered a new web attack that exploits CMS and SSH to embed a module on to legit webpages, most of them .edu sites that aren’t updated often. These sites appear perfectly normal but if you do a search …

There have recently been two publicized, high profile attacks on email marketing services.  The two services are Aweber and iContact, each confirming the attacks within about a month of each other. These companies, and many others like them, provide email …

Security researchers say botnet herders, malware authors, spammers, and other cybercriminals have begun taking matters into their own hands and creating their own ISPs. Now that even so-called “bulletproof” ISPs are being pursued and shut down, cybercriminals have decided that …

Last week we told you about a huge data breach that was affecting Hotmail, Yahoo!, and GMail accounts – hundreds of thousands of them at last count.  Now experts say that the amount of spam messages coming from those sites …

Hackers and spammers are taking advantage of the DDoS attack that hit Twitter and Facebook last week. The attack was apparently targeted at a single user of the sites, a Georgian blogger named Cyxymu. Cyxymu has used the sites to …

A British security vendor has discovered that the ZBot Trojan has harvested the FTP credentials of over 68,000 websites including Bank of America, the BBC, Amazon, Cisco, Monster.com and most of the major anti-spam software makers. The credentials could allow …

A message posted on a security forum raised concerns of a possible data breach at T-Mobile, but the company says it never happened. A group claiming to have hacked the cellular service provider claimed to have a massive amount of …

University of California Santa Barbara researchers gave us a rare look inside of a botnet, when they recently took control of the Torpig botnet for a period of ten days and observed its malicious dealings. According to a report on …

Security researchers at TRACELabs has found that the top botnets on the net today are Rustock and Xarvester. Rustock, which was temporarily laid low by the shutdown of spammer friendly McColo, has returned with a roar and is now sending …