A hacking campaign has compromised VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) phone systems at over 1,000 companies around the world over the past year in a campaign designed to make profit from selling compromised accounts.
While the main purpose appears to be dialling premium rate numbers owned by attackers or selling phone numbers and call plans that others can use for free, access to VoIP systems could provide cyber criminals with the ability to conduct other attacks, including listening to private calls, cryptomining , or even using compromised systems as a stepping stone towards much more intrusive campaigns.
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23,600 hacked databases have leaked from a defunct 'data breach index' site | ZDNet
The database collection is said to have originated from Cit0Day.in, a private service advertised on hacking forums to other cybercriminals.
However, the Cit0day website went down on September 14, when the site's main domain sported an FBI and DOJ seizure notice.
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An FBI spokesperson for the FBI declined to comment and refused to confirm any investigation, citing internal policies present in all law enforcement agencies.
GitHub denies getting hacked | ZDNet
GitHub has denied rumors today of getting hacked after a mysterious entity shared what they claimed to be the source code of the GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise portals.
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But in a message posted on YCombinator's Hacker News portal, Friedman denied that it was him and that GitHub got hacked in any way.
Friedman said this source code had already leaked months before due to its own error when GitHub engineers accidentally "shipped an un-stripped/obfuscated tarball of our GitHub Enterprise Server source code to some customers."
How to Protect a WordPress Site from Hackers - Search Engine Journal
WordPress is a frequent target for hacking. Hackers are targeting the theme, the core WordPress files, plugins and even the login page. These are the steps to take to make it less likely to be hacked and to be able to recover easier if it should still happen.
All sites on the web are under constant attack, whether it’s a phpBB forum or a WordPress site, all sites are being probed by hackers. It’s not unusual for a hacker to scan thousands of pages or try to login in hundreds of times a day.
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Robert Herjavec confident U.S. can safeguard voting from hackers
"The U.S. government has come a long way. You would have to hack into the actual scanning machines in order to alter that. That is extremely difficult and requires a physical presence to do that, so I'm pretty confident about" the vote tallies, Herjavec said on CNBC's "Squawk Alley."
The founder and CEO of Herjavec Group , which provides cybersecurity products and services to business, also said he was encouraged by the efforts of social media companies such as Twitte r and Facebook to monitor misinformation posted online.
Palestinian hackers with criminal subculture go global - The Jerusalem Post
Brazilian police investigate online hacking of high court
SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police opened an investigation into the hacking of computers at one of the country's high courts on Thursday.
The head of Brazil's Superior Court of Justice, Humberto Martins, said all sessions have been suspended until experts assure that they are safe from hacking. The court is meeting online since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Neither judges nor staffers of the court are using computers connected to its internet network because of the security risk.
Founder of hacker group Anonymous reveals his ultimate 'end-game' -
So what happened to the original crew? Cottle, who does software engineering contract work these days, talked about where his focus currently lies while answering questions on Reddit this week in an "Ask Me Anything" session that has gone viral.
"Right now my only end-goal is bringing the QAnon game to a conclusion," he explained to a growing number of Redditors tuning into the AMA. "For the last several months my one and only focus has been on QAnon. I more or less abandoned everything I was doing for this."
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Hackers are exploiting unpatched VoIP flaws to compromise business accounts https://t.co/YLx0e8MQm7 ZDNet (from USA | UK | Asia | Australia) Fri Nov 06 03:00:20 +0000 2020
ICYMI: Google's Project Zero says that hackers have been actively exploiting a Windows zero-day that isn't likely t… https://t.co/eTRrWSabDM arstechnica (from NYC - Boston - Chicago - SF) Mon Nov 02 18:22:13 +0000 2020
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