Cyber Crime Archive

CENTCOM Twitter and YouTube accounts, hacked by a terrorist group of Islamic State
An affiliated group of terrorist network of Islamic State has conducted cyber attacks against official Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command (CENTCOM), broadcasting threats against US troops, reports The Washington Post newspaper. Assigned messages of hackers have begun to appear on the CENTCOM Twitter

IBM Study: Companies rethinking cyber security strategies
Approximately 60% of leaders in security believe that hackers have exceeded cybersecurity capabilities within their organization, said in a study conducted by IBM. Over 80% of security leaders believe that the challenges of external threats is increasing, while 60% agree that oraganizatiile are exceeded in this cyber war,

Pro-Russian Hacker Group CyberBerkut Claims Attack On Bundestag Websites
The German government announced on Wednesday that more of its websites, including that of the Chancellery, were victims of a major cyber attack, which was claimed by a group of pro-Russian Ukraine. The information was made public by an Executive spokesman Steffen Seibert, reports Reuters. The

The largest Bitcoin market from Europe, broken by hackers, causing millions of dollars worth of damage
Bitstamp, a major European bitcoin exchange, suspended operations after recording losses of several million dollars. Most likely, losses were recorded following a cyber attack, informs Financial Times newspaper. Bitstamp, with offices in London and Slovenia suspended the withdrawal of funds and advised clients on the danger of opening new deposits after

Ransomware – a malware which encrypts your data
Cyber threats have an enviable diversity and a proof of ingenuity of hackers is ransomware, a malware which encrypts your data in the “hard drive” and you can not regain access unless you pay an amount of money as a reward. Few threats act in a way so

NTP critical vulnerability, solved by OS X update
The myth which says that Apple’s operating system, OS X is more protected against hacker attacks than other operating systems was once again dismissed. A critical vulnerability that could affect Mac users proved so dangerous that led the Cupertino company to publish for the first time in

Lizard Squad is attacking Tor Browser using DDOS
The hackers group called Lizard Squad which also claims responsibility for taking down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live over the Christmas Holiday, tweeted that they are behind the Tor Browser Cyber Attack from Friday. To clarify, we are no longer attacking PSN or Xbox. We are testing

Focus on multidirectional malware and spyware on 2015
Dangerous malware such as Uroburos, spyware on Android smartphones and a growing number of cases involving malware attacks on mobile devices – 2014 was marked by cyber espionage, hacker attacks and cyber campaigns. Number of 3.5 million new strains of malware has been exceeded for the first

After hackers threats, Sony decided to cancel Christmas release of The Interview
US investigators have established that cyber attack on Sony Pictures was conducted by North Korea, according to official sources in Washington, film studio was forced to cancel the launch of the film “The Interview”, a decision widely criticized by Hollywood on Tuesday. A group of computer pirates who showed

phpBB.com Hacked, several servers were compromised
Today some of the phpBB.com website was hacked. They announced on their official website that several servers were compromised. phpBB’s customers must know that their websites are’n affected by this attack, because the only target was phpBB’s servers. Right now, the phpBB team is verifying the integrity