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February 11, 2017

HACKING CAMPAIGN TARGETING MINISTRY AND EMBASSY SITES

malicious reconnaissance campaign that targets websites. It is unknown what is the intent behind the campaign as of this writing, however, the profile of the targets resembles those that are common targets of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actors. As the attack is currently active, it effectively turns compromised sites into attack surfaces against their visitors.

February 6, 2017

Anonymous Hacktivist group hacks 10,613 Tor Websites On Dark Web

Hacktivist group Anonymous hacks the company servers Freedom Hosting II and lay down some 10,000 web pages based on Tor, representing almost 20% of the web deep. Hackers claim that at least half of the web pages were child pornography.

February 2, 2017

Microsoft Power Point 2016, Java Code Execution

If the user have JAVA (or python or similar interpreters) an attacker can insert jar file or py file into the presentation and trigger it when mouse moves, for easier exploitation the attacker can use ppsx file which will load automatically in presentation mode and once the user opens the file and moves mouse it will trigger the payload.

January 27, 2017

New malware-campaign: Chrome displays a message “font not found” to its users

Experts of the company Proofpoint warn users of Windows and Chrome browser: hackers have come up with a new trick and now disguise their attacks under load additional font package. The researchers write that attackers […]

January 25, 2017

IT Companies move to target ‘terrorist content’ online

The move by the technology companies, which is expected to begin in early 2017, aims to assuage government concerns and derail proposed new federal legislation over social media content that is seen as increasingly driving ‘recruitment’ and ‘radicalization’, while also balancing free speech issues.In Pakistan , people can use Surf Safe Pakistan web portal to report terrorist and extremist content online.

January 25, 2017

NTISB: Cyber security alert issued in Pakistan

Government officials warned that the emails being sent from Mumbai, (India) and USA addresses could hack all the information from the device.

January 24, 2017

Forensic Analysis: Botnet Attacking – WordPress Sites Of Pakistan

CK uses a well known shell as a backdoor which is known as the WSO shell. It stores the backdoor in a file called wp-ajax.php which is made to look like a legitimate WordPress core file.It is affecting wordpress websites all around the world and specially in Pakistan on industrial scale.

January 22, 2017

Cyber Warfare: Trump’s Next Big Challenge

“Well, I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president…” As President-elect Donald Trump continues on his journey toward the White House, previous statements about cyber warfare […]