Security News

Account Hijacking Forum OGusers Hacked
2019-05-18 13:44

Ogusers[.]com -- a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims' phone numbers -- has itself been hacked,...

Nine Charged in SIM Hijacking Scheme
2019-05-13 17:47

The United States has indicted nine individuals with online identity theft and related charges, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.  read more

Lax Telco Security Allows Mobile Phone Hijacking and Redirects
2019-05-08 17:14

A Q&A with Kaspersky Lab researcher David Jacoby examines a gaping hole in the telco customer-service process that allows adversaries to commandeer phone calls.

State-Sponsored Hackers Use Sophisticated DNS Hijacking in Ongoing Attacks
2019-04-18 16:17

With growing concern over DNS manipulation attacks, details on a new elite state-sponsored DNS hijacking campaign have been released. Called operation Sea Turtle, researchers believe that at least...

New DNS Hijacking Attacks
2019-04-18 10:13

DNS hijacking isn't new, but this seems to be an attack of uprecidented scale: Researchers at Cisco's Talos security division on Wednesday revealed that a hacker group it's calling Sea Turtle...

'Sea Turtle' DNS Hijacking Group Conducts Espionage: Report
2019-04-17 22:03

Cisco Talos Researchers Describe Group's MethodsA nation-state sponsored espionage campaign dubbed "Sea Turtle" has been manipulating the domain name system to target more than 40 organizations,...

State-Sponsored DNS Hijacking Infiltrates 40 Firms Globally
2019-04-17 17:32

An ongoing campaign, active since 2017, has been stealing credentials via global DNS hijacking attacks.

Ongoing DNS Hijacking Campaign Targets Gmail, PayPal, Netflix Users
2019-04-05 16:00

A DNS hijacking campaign that has been ongoing for the past three months is targeting the users of popular online services, including Gmail, PayPal, and Netflix.  As part of the campaign, the...

Consumer routers targeted by DNS hijacking attackers
2019-04-05 10:17

Owners of a slew of D-Link, ARGtek, DSLink, Secutech, TOTOLINK and Cisco consumer routers are urged to update their device’s firmware, lest they fall prey to ongoing DNS hijacking campaigns and...

Modern browser APIs can be abused for hijacking device resources
2019-02-27 14:18

Powerful capabilities of modern browser APIs could be misused by attackers to take control of a site visitor’s browser, add it to their botnet, and use it for a variety of malicious actions,...