Hajime 'Vigilante Botnet' Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide

The Hacker News Daily Updates The Need for a New IT Security Architecture: Global Study on the Risk of Outdated Technologies A global study from Citrix and The Ponemon Institute. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Apr 27, 2017 Hack'em If You Can — U.S. Air Force launches Bug Bounty Program With the growing number of data breaches and cyber attacks, a significant number of companies and organizations have started Bug Bounty programs for encouraging hackers and bug hunters to find and responsibly report vulnerabilities in their services and get rewarded. Now, following the success of ... Read More Hajime 'Vigilante Botnet' Growing Rapidly; Hijacks 300,000 IoT Devices Worldwide Last week, we reported about a so-called 'vigilante hacker' who hacked into at least 10,000 vulnerable 'Internet of Things' devices, such as home routers and Internet-connected cameras, using a botnet malware in order to supposedly secure them. Now, that vigilante hacker has already trapped ... Read More Beware! New Android Malware Infected 2 Million Google Play Store Users Initially thought to be 600,000 users, the number of Android users who have mistakenly downloaded and installed malware on their devices straight from Google Play Store has reached 2 Million. Yes, about 2 Million Android users have fallen victim to malware hidden in over 40 fake companion guide ... Read More Webroot 'mistakenly' flags Windows as Malware and Facebook as Phishing site Popular antivirus service Webroot mistakenly flagged core Windows system files as malicious and even started temporarily removing some of the legit files, trashing user computers around the world. The havoc caused after the company released a bad update on April 24, which was pulled after ... Read More Atlassian's HipChat Hacked — Users' Data May Have Been Compromised Atlassian's group chat platform HipChat is notifying its users of a data breach after some unknown hacker or group of hackers broke into one of its servers over the weekend and stole a significant amount of data, including group chat logs. What Happened? According to a security notice published ... Read More The Need for a New IT Security Architecture: Global Study on the Risk of Outdated Technologies A global study from Citrix and The Ponemon Institute. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India