Dual data exposures and a wide-scale data leak due to a vulnerable MongoDB database have kicked off 2019 so far.

Threatpost discusses the future of the Emotet banking trojan with Cylance.

Those who can, teach

By Waqas

A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka “BestBuy and Popopret” to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting country’s Internet and causing tens of millions of dollars in damages. Kaye (30) was charged for DDoS attacks against British and German […]

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By Uzair Amir

This is the second time in one week that adware apps have been found on Google Play Store. Lukas Stefanko, an IT security researcher at ESET has discovered 9 Android apps on Google Play Store spamming users with unwanted ads. One of the apps called “Remote control for TV and home electronics” has been installed […]

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The app was developed by legitimate Chinese manufacturing giant TCL.

By Waqas

He conducted those DDoS attacks for #OpJustina back in 2014. In April 2014, Martin Gottesfeld (34) from Massachusetts claimed his affiliation with the online hacking group Anonymous and conducted a series of massive DDoS attacks (distributed denial-of-service) on Boston Children’s Hospital and the Wayside Youth Family Support. Gottesfeld further maintained that the DDoS attacks were against hospital’s alleged bad treatment […]

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A class-action suit over a 2015 attack demonstration against a Jeep Cherokee can move forward, US Supreme Court rules.

Mondelez files lawsuit after Zurich rejects claim for damages from massive ransomware attack.

Expired certs aren’t being replaced