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The South Korean government has admitted that its cyber military command was hacked last month by injecting malicious codes into one of its main routing servers. However, authorities say the possibility of any data theft is low as the military intranet was not connected to the targeted server. "A malicious code has been identified and it seems to have taken advantage of the vulnerability of the routing server," Kim Jin-pyo, a lawmaker told Yonhap news...

Previously we informed our readers about the hacking of Steam accounts. Now a Reddit user is claiming that some of these hacked accounts are distributing malware. The user on Reddit who goes by the alias Hayaddict can be seen alerting about the hacked Steam accounts being used to SPAM malicious URLs. Steam chat is the primary platform used for the distribution of this new malware. The chat messages contain a link to a video available at this address: videomeo.pw. As soon...

Victims infected with the MarsJoke ransomware can decrypt their files after researchers last week cracked the encryption in the CTB-Locker lookalike. A trio of researchers from Kaspersky Lab’s Anti-Ransom Team–Anton Ivanov, Orkhan Mamedov, and Fedor Sinitsyn–described Monday how errors in the cryptography, a/k/a Polyglot, used in the ransomware enabled them to break it. The biggest mistake developers behind the ransomware made was in the way they implemented its pseudo-random number generator. Researchers said a weak random string in the key...

An Israeli surveillance firm claims it can break the encryption behind the popular messaging app WhatsApp. Wintego claims it can compromise the data transmitted in encrypted conversations contained in WhatsApp through a program called CatchApp. According to brochures handed out at a recent policing event, CatchApp uses a man-in-the-middle attack to intercept traffic in between the sender and the recipient. This capability to compromise WhatsApp’s encryption is supposedly contained in WINT, a hacking device small enough to...

A hacker has released the source code for the malware that powered the distributed denial of service attacks that were launched against security blog Krebs on Security and OVH, one of the biggest hosting providers in the world. According to Brian Krebs, the owner of the Krebs on Security blog, the source code for the malware, known as Mirai, was uploaded on the hacker website Hackforum by a user who goes by the name Anna-senpai....

An Android malware family discovered this year has slowly spread and has become a big problem, currently found in over 3,000 Android application, 400 of which could be downloaded from the official Google Play Store, at one point or another. Security researchers saw first versions of this malware in April, but the trojan came to the media's attention in late August, when Check Point found over 400 apps infected with this malware, 40 of which they...

She is one of the most photographed women in the world. But Kate Moss , 41, is likely to be unimpressed with the latest snaps allegedly doing the rounds - after her half-sister's Facebook account was hacked and private images of the pair were stolen. According to a report in The Sun on Sunday newspaper, the supermodel's half-sister Lottie, 18, fell victim to hackers on Saturday and the siblings have been on damage limitation ever since. View full story...

The UK's new National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) officially opens for business today as a public-facing part of GCHQ that acts as a focal point for the government to deliver authoritative advice on tackling cyber-security issues. It will be based in the Nova office and shopping complex near Victoria Station in London, not in Cheltenham at GCHQ, as originally announced last year, though it will also have offices there. While this operational centre will focus on defensive...

One of the security companies that claimed Russian hackers were responsible for the Democratic National Committee (DNC) email leaks has now suggested that the same hackers attacked journalists investigating the MH17 crash. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fortune

Cracking the iPhone might be harder to do these days, but that only makes it more valuable. On Thursday, exploit vendor Zerodium announced they were tripling their bounty for a zero-day hack of Apple’s iOS 10, offering a new maximum payout of $1.5 million. View full story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Gizmodo