2018-11-26 12:57
Aimed at preventing leaks of personal information from state agencies, Russia has drawn up a bill, a move that follows publication of details of Russians allegedly involved in covert intelli… Read More
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Hacker Combat is a community of expert ethical hackers crusading against Cyber Attacks and Cyber Crimes. On the site, you will find a wealth of resources on how to identify and fix security loopholes to strengthen Network and Data Security; while avoiding Hacking, Data abuse, blackmail and extortion.
2018-11-26 09:26
Cyber criminals seem to have reached a new low, as they have targeted the site of one of the most popular children’s foundations in the world and infected it with crypto mining malware… Read More
2018-11-25 18:32
The massive change of malware trends happened last year when WannaCry of 2017 figuratively took the IT world to a terrible storm. The world has changed forever, as virus authors realize that… Read More
2018-11-25 14:37
HP New Zealand IT Security has publicly revealed that 45% of New Zealand’s companies are not ready to face the security challenges, as they are using ineffective endpoint protection so… Read More
2018-11-25 11:39
Swift’s BAE Systems has recently released their study of the future of Financial Markets in the wake of cyber attacks, especially malware infestation and cryptocurrency mining malware… Read More
2018-11-24 22:58
Ransomware has been very effective and profitable for virus authors for strictly one reason, many of its victims and future victims have one thing in common: lack of credible backup solution… Read More
2018-11-24 18:54
The recently concluded Interpol General Assembly held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates opens a broader outlook of covering not only discussions about traditional transnational crimes but also… Read More
2018-11-24 13:51
In our world today, countries are “united” through a world-organ named United Nations, where civilized discussions about conflicts and misunderstandings are raised. But in the cy… Read More
2018-11-24 11:05
With Black Friday hours away, and according to a new report that shone the spotlight on the most at-risk areas of the work, UK tops as the hacking favorite for criminals.
Surveying 2,000 UK… Read More
2018-11-24 08:02
Apparently, the notorious cybercrime community named TA505 is very active again, this time they are heavily testing in the wild the effectiveness of a new variant of a remote access trojan… Read More
2018-11-23 22:43
USB Flash Drive is a blessing to end-users, data files that we used to cram in 1.44MB floppy disks, burn in CD-Rs and saved in proprietary disk format Iomega Zip disks of the late ’90s… Read More
2018-11-23 16:49
It is not that only large enterprise should worry about Data Loss Prevention because now even small companies of all sizes are the target for hackers. Having a DLP in place
Hackercombat aims… Read More
2018-11-23 12:25
The United States Postal Service has fixed a security issue that had caused its website to expose data relating to over 60 million users for over a year. Brian Krebs wrote, on 21 November, o… Read More
2018-11-23 05:45
HackerCombat recently wrote sharing tips for safe online shopping during the Black Friday- Cyber Monday shopping season.
Yes, as we had mentioned there, the November- December shopping seaso… Read More
2018-11-22 22:52
Android has grown from a minority player in the mobile operating system market of 2008, a world dominated by Research-in-Motion’s Blackberry and Microsoft Windows mobile. With 1 billio… Read More
2018-11-22 19:44
The real world is a jungle; it is really is still the survival of the fittest even after hundreds of thousands of years ago when our common ancestors walked the planet. But instead of having… Read More
2018-11-22 12:51
Two young hackers who were involved in the hacking of the website of UK telecommunication company TalkTalk have been convicted.
Matthew Hanley, 23 and Connor Allsopp, 21, who were involved i… Read More
2018-11-22 09:51
Amazon says “a technical error on its website disclosed customer information during the busiest shopping period of the year. The online retail giant though revealed the technical error… Read More
2018-11-22 05:24
If you’re a crypto enthusiast and adventurer with no plans for April 2019, perhaps you can merge your two passions and attend the first Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference to be h… Read More
2018-11-21 22:08
Just like regular crime, cybercrime follows a simple agenda: to reach its goal. If money, fame or influence is the goal, it will always go back to the central purpose of why someone engages… Read More
2018-11-21 17:50
Hacking tools have been available for public download and consumption for many decades. Many of which are open source in nature, does not cost users a dime and can be learned by just trying… Read More
2018-11-21 12:25
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) and the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine detected a new malware Pterodo Windows backdoor that was targeting computers at Ukra… Read More
2018-11-21 05:01
Digital scams, especially phishing scams are reportedly posing a “serious problem” for Canada’s Global Affairs Department.
A recent report by The Canadian Press reporter Ji… Read More
2018-11-20 18:51
WannaCry, the worst malware of 2017, netting its own virus author an estimated global profit of $4 billion has not ended its run yet. 2018 as a year of ransomware continued where 2017 left o… Read More
2018-11-20 13:46
Gearing up for the shopping extravaganza that Black Friday and Cyber Monday have to offer? Well, it’s definitely a great time for shoppers and bargain hunters, people don’t just… Read More
2018-11-20 11:19
We know how easy it is to find a service on Google Maps. You need a plumber to fix your leaky tank, hit the Google Maps to get the guy who is nearby. Nevertheless, there’s a chance tha… Read More
2018-11-20 04:58
Google and Target, the U.S retail giant, were hit recently by the ongoing Twitter bitcoin scam account hacks.
It was seen that the official Twitter accounts of Google and Target ca… Read More
2018-11-19 22:55
The Australian’s Department of Health is a cybersecurity conscious-agency, out of the many executive departments in the land down under. This is through its push for the implementation… Read More
2018-11-19 18:41
November 11, 2018, was the 100th-year anniversary of World War 1 Armistice when the world is actually having a new world war. Not the conventional war between states involving arms, explosiv… Read More
2018-11-19 13:08
Thousands of websites were impacted when Daniel’s Hosting, the prominent Dark Web hosting provider was hacked recently.
As per reports, Daniel’s Hosting was hacked this week and… Read More
2018-11-19 10:01
No matter how careful you are with your IT security and data protection, security breaches are here to stay, with hackers staying one step ahead and gaining access to your crucial data. Ever… Read More
2018-11-18 22:16
Ransomware attacks have become very common these days; organizations big and small, as well as individuals, are getting targeted. Cybercriminals are doing brisk business and making big money… Read More
2018-11-18 18:16
Mozilla Firefox now introduces a feature that would warn people when they visit breached websites…
It was a couple of months ago that Mozilla came up with Firefox Monitor, a service t… Read More
2018-11-18 14:15
In the wake of the Newegg and British Airways data breach caused by a defective Magecart system, stolen information, most especially credit card details are available for sale in some dark w… Read More
2018-11-18 12:14
2018 is not a good year for chip vendors, as they have not received any break when it comes to the continued stream of discoveries when it comes to their processors’ hardware vulnerabi… Read More
2018-11-18 07:07
Women in technology is a force to recon with, as it is one of the most gender-neutral industries on a global scale. This has been the message echoed in the recently concluded League of Women… Read More
2018-11-17 22:03
Facebook has silently patched a vulnerability very recently that enabled 3rd party sites to extract user information without seeking the consent of individual users first. The aggregate data… Read More
2018-11-17 18:39
Today, there are two tried and tested ways for cybercriminals to effectively earn a lot of income. The first one is what we are very familiar with, due to its strong possibility of causing t… Read More
2018-11-17 14:32
We are down for a few weeks before 2018 ends, and technology trends today can give us a glimpse of what 2019 has to offer from the standpoint of cybersecurity and IT security defense. Here a… Read More
2018-11-17 11:31
It is fairly common for a first world country to extend its foreign aid to a 3rd world nation, especially in the sectors of food security, education, and infrastructure funding. However, a f… Read More
2018-11-17 08:26
The Emotet family of banking malware has made an enormous resurgence for a couple of weeks now, targeting bank customers using a new batch of trojan-infested email spam. The new strain is no… Read More
2018-11-16 23:37
What we can consider as the Olympics-of-White-Hat-Hackers, Pwn2Own hacker competition hosted by TrendMicro in Tokyo, Japan, has given away $325,000 in rewards for the group of hackers for th… Read More
2018-11-16 18:59
The United States is just one of a few remaining countries in the world that are persistently using magnetic stripe-based cards, used for payments with POS and other retail stores. The move… Read More
2018-11-16 16:24
The social media giant, Facebook has heightened its fight against pretenders and fake accounts in its pursue its commitment with the government. They have released an official report, summar… Read More
2018-11-16 10:23
Bad news again for Google Play Store, four more fake, malicious cryptocurrency apps have been identified this week.
HackerCombat had reported, two days ago, of a Trojanized app with more tha… Read More
2018-11-16 05:38
ATM security is, in fact, a delicate area. There are experts who opine that almost all ATMs today are vulnerable to software-based cyberattacks and give up customer data to cybercriminals, i… Read More
2018-11-15 20:34
Companies hate bad PR; many of them hire external PR firms in order to re-engage their respective communities and target markets in order to lessen if not cancel the impact of a bad PR at al… Read More
2018-11-15 12:41
Nearly half of all utility CEOs are concerned that cyberattacks are imminent, as per a recent survey report.
According to the KPMG 2018 Global Power & Utilities CEO Outlook survey, 48 pe… Read More
2018-11-15 09:59
Seven months back TechCrunch reported how Facebook secretly retracted messages sent by Mark Zuckerberg and other executives from their recipients’ inboxes. That’s a feature that… Read More
2018-11-15 05:13
WannaCry struck worldwide in May 2017, with the ransomware wreaking havoc on systems and networks in over 150 countries.
Hundreds of thousands of computers, of independent users and in many… Read More
2018-11-14 23:06
2017 was a year of ransomware, primarily the WannaCry malware that made $4 billion in profits from the ransom payments of its poor victims globally. This year is a bit of a mash-up, with the… Read More
2018-11-14 18:44
The enormous trend of data loss due to the growing number of Data Breaches, that is the sad reality of today’s technology-dependent and obsessed world. This is the overall picture pain… Read More
2018-11-14 13:09
Magecart, known for their e-commerce payment card-skimming that has recently attacked British Airways, Ticketmaster, Newegg, and other prominent companies, comprises of six major active cybe… Read More
2018-11-14 10:58
A new Trojanized app, with more than 5,000 installs, has been found in the Google Play store.
Malware researcher Lukas Stefanko has found this malicious app, an Android call recording applic… Read More
2018-11-14 04:29
A health data breach that impacted the Healthcare.gov portal last month could reportedly have helped hackers steal sensitive personal data like partial SSNs (Social Security Numbers), immigr… Read More
2018-11-13 23:43
There are more horrible things than meets the eye with the October 2018 data breach of Cathay Pacific Airways, the airline confessed after a month of deeper investigation. The airline has fi… Read More
2018-11-13 20:03
Malaysia’s premier media conglomerate, Media Prima Berhad has been the latest victim of a nasty ransomware. The ransomware authors are demanding for US$6.3 million worth of Bitcoins in… Read More
2018-11-13 10:48
The Bitcoin’s price that soared to $20,000 due to the cryptocurrency craze may have come down, but the threat still lingers.
Kaspersky Labs has come out with a detail report showcasing… Read More
2018-11-13 04:58
Gone are the days when installing an antivirus would give you ample protection against viruses and malware. Cybercriminals today have turned so sophisticated that they now come up with all k… Read More
2018-11-12 21:40
There is a growing public concern of the healthcare sector readiness when it comes to cybersecurity attacks, in the wake of the 2017 WannaCry ransomware that net the virus makers an estimate… Read More
2018-11-12 16:10
F-Secure, a mainstream antivirus vendor based in Finland has reported that India is a favorite target of cyber attacks originating from Germany, China, the Netherlands, Russia, and the Unite… Read More
2018-11-12 12:47
According to Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands ‘data storage devices with self-encrypting drives don’t provide the expected level of data protection. They say… Read More
2018-11-12 10:38
The Singaporean telecommunications carrier StarHub seems to be relying the most on enterprise for its growth, as per a report published by the company.
StarHub recently came out with its una… Read More
2018-11-11 22:36
Security experts for a long time have warned users to turn-off UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) on their home modem/routers, to close the security vulnerability inherent in the UPnP protocol… Read More
2018-11-11 18:19
Just like personal computers, smartphones and tablets, new smart devices such as the highly viral remote quadcopters (AKA drones) are powered by an operating system. As part of the territory… Read More
2018-11-11 13:24
The Turkish authorities have hit the nail this time when they arrested a gang of digital currency hacker. As per the report, the authorities were looking for these cybercriminals a… Read More
2018-11-10 22:31
If you’re in the market for juicy football news, you may well be flooded with some scandalous bits as FIFA recently announced that their organization was again a victim of a hack.
FIF… Read More
2018-11-10 18:25
Artificial Intelligence is still crude as of this time, but it has already become both a blessing and a curse to the world. Through AI, companies, large and small, for-profit and non-profits… Read More
2018-11-10 13:57
Yes, really. Your government or a foreign spy agency might be tuning in right now through your router or your server equipment.
Two Cases of Hardware Tampering
In 2015, Amazon ordered third… Read More
2018-11-10 09:40
The North Korean elite hacker team Lazarus has been wreaking havoc to many Automated Teller Machines located in Africa and Asia for the last two years. Dubbed the FastCash attacks, unauthori… Read More
2018-11-09 21:39
Phishing attacks anchor itself by its two strong instruments:
Pretending to be from a popular brand
The clever presentation making its message believable
Without these two aspects, phishing… Read More
2018-11-09 12:38
The South Korean hackers’ were arrested for injecting malware in the computer of over 6,000 people. The Korean National Police Agency Cyber Bureau and local police have joined efforts… Read More
2018-11-09 05:52
For fourteen years, since June 2004, VirusTotal has served the public’s interest of combating malware, by its online scanning system that aggregates many antivirus engines from the big… Read More
2018-11-08 21:24
Security culture is the behavior in an organization that contributes to the protection of data, information, and knowledge, very useful today in the wake of implementation of Data Protection… Read More
2018-11-08 16:05
A group of hackers attacked a crypto exchange Gate.io, and compromise its web analytics platform to infect users. According to reports, these actors have compromised StaTcouter, a famous sit… Read More
2018-11-08 10:17
What could be more fateful than the fact that, an unsecured MongoDB server has exposed the personal data on 689,272 American Express India customers.
Bob Diachenko, director of cyber risk re… Read More
2018-11-08 04:35
Computer hardware is a commodity item nowadays; anyone that wants one can have one relatively cheaply, as it has a second-hand market as well. We went full circle, as the technology are now… Read More
2018-11-07 16:11
As reported in the business insider. In the past few years, there has been an increase in targeted hijacking towards the online accounts of politicians and other high-profile figures. In ord… Read More
2018-11-07 12:28
In a data breach notification letter addressed to the California attorney general’s office, HSBC said that somewhere between 4 and 14th October, unauthorized users accessed the account… Read More
2018-11-07 10:17
Digital forensics has risen in importance for at least the last two decades, it is the byproduct of the growth of knowledge due to massive Internet penetration in the world. Digital forensic… Read More
2018-11-06 18:40
As the market of (AI) is thriving, and how technology people are elevated with its flexibility, various new businesses and Internet giants are racing to make it a part of their operations. T… Read More
2018-11-06 12:46
Two days before Election Day, the office for Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is in a closely contested race for governor, announced Sunday that it was opening an investigation int… Read More
2018-11-05 18:51
Australia’s spy chief says that China’s Huawei could pose a great security threat to the country’s infrastructure, especially the water supply and electricity grid.
The Gua… Read More
2018-11-05 09:32
Cybercriminals have devised a new way of hacking cardless ATMs using SMS-based phishing attacks.
It has become a new trend with many financial institutions to offer cardless ATM transactions… Read More
2018-11-04 18:26
Vulnerability scanning is not rocket science; anyone with the time in their hands to search for a software vulnerability scanner can find one in mere seconds. With the way the Internet has g… Read More
2018-11-04 12:28
The most serious breach of data in the history of Singapore happened last month when SingHealth reported that 1.5 million patient records were breached. According to Strait Times, among thos… Read More
2018-11-03 18:33
Computer security vulnerabilities are a threat that has spawned a booming industry, between the heightened global focus on security, and the proliferation of high-profile computer viruses an… Read More
2018-11-03 13:35
Austal, the Defense shipbuilder based in Western Australia has been hit with a data breach and extortion attempt.
The Guardian reports, “Defence shipbuilder Austal’s Australian b… Read More
2018-11-02 19:28
Experts point out that the recent data breach that had impacted Cathay Pacific exposes a gap in Hong Kong laws.
The Hong Kong-based international airline had, on October 24, 2018, acknowledg… Read More
2018-11-02 13:17
Removal storage and USB thumb drives are serious security threats and could cause massive damage to industrial systems, as per a new report.
A new, first-of-its-kind research report released… Read More
2018-11-02 05:30
Hacked Facebook accounts are being sold on the dark web, showing the value of such accounts after the social network revealed 50 million of its users had been compromised in a major hack.
We… Read More
2018-11-01 19:43
The Emotet malware, which the US government warned about in July, has been provided with a new feature that allows it to steal all e-mails of 180 days and newer on infected systems. As a res… Read More
2018-11-01 13:37
According to latest data from specialist insurer Beazley, Healthcare remains the most targeted industry by ransomware attacks, which have spiked in the third quarter of 2018.
Ransom the most… Read More
2018-11-01 09:49
Going by the adage “Prevention is better than cure”, it’s high time we adopted the defensive approach in cybersecurity.
Ask any sensible cybersecurity expert and he could e… Read More
2018-11-01 04:11
In this age of post-Snowden era, a typical user is somewhat aware that spying for personally identifiable information is a lucrative business for both cybercriminal organizations and state-a… Read More
2018-10-31 23:19
Last July, we have reported the SingHealth Singapore’s massive data breach, in fact, the biggest security breach in the city-state’s history. The investigation continued for a qu… Read More
2018-10-31 21:29
These days convenience is proportional to security; it can never be convenient if strict security protocols are in-place and vice-versa. As people tend to embrace the cashless way of paying… Read More
2018-10-31 13:44
This is for the second time the European soccer’s governing body, UEFA, fear they also may have suffered a data breach.
In a statement football’s world, governing body said: &ldq&hell…Read More
2018-10-31 09:46
Fresh attacks of the SamSam ransomware have been reported from across the U.S; the ransomware seems to be unleashing attacks at new targets across the country.
ZDNet reports, “SamSam r… Read More
2018-10-31 02:43
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General has taken the initiative to probe the healthcare.gov website in the wake of a huge security breach. The breach… Read More
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