The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has with success, breached the US Marines site and in the process sent a message to the country’s government. The group, which is for the Syrian government, placed a message on the Marines.com homepage that debated that the government has …
Read More »Surge of spear-phishing attacks targeting Facebook Users
The FBI issued an official warning Tuesday to consumers to beware of spear-phishing attempts aimed at stealing intellectual property, financial credentials and personal data, oftentimes for the intentions of faking an individual’s identity. Another security firm warned that in the past year, the intensity of …
Read More »Cyber attacks disrupt al-Qaeda’s recruitment
According to US intelligence sources, WTOP, the DDoS attacks have substantially interrupted the organization’s power to recruit members via online sites. Last week, al-Qaeda planned to launch a film called “Salil al-Sawarim 3” to declare their come back in Iran, but the release has been postponed because …
Read More »Large DDoS attack launched on major banks
In a Pastebin message posted on Monday, a group called Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters warned it would launch a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The banks targeted in this attack where, U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase,Bank of America, PNC, and SunTrust. Many Users started reporting problems accessing banking …
Read More »‘Anonymous hacker’ faces jail for DDoS on Paypal
An alleged leading British member of the ‘Anonymous’ hacktivist group convicted today for a series of devastating cyber-attacks on some of the world’s biggest companies. On one affair ‘hacktivist’ Christopher Weatherhead assisted in targeting PayPal since they denied donations for the fundraising of Julian Assange’s …
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