FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged

The Hacker News Daily Updates Threat Intelligence Report Download the new report on threat intelligence trends, challenges and solutions. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Dec 21, 2018 FBI Seizes 15 DDoS-For-Hire Websites, 3 Operators Charged The FBI just saved the Christmas. The U.S. Justice Department announced earlier today that the FBI has seized domains of 15 "DDoS-for-hire" websites and charged three individuals running some of these services. DDoS-for-hire, or "Booter" or "Stresser," services rent out access to a network of ... Read More US Indicts Two Chinese Government Hackers Over Global Hacking Campaign The US Department of Justice on Thursday charged two Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government for hacking numerous companies and government agencies in a dozen countries. The Chinese nationals, Zhu Hua (known online as Afwar, CVNX, Alayos and Godkiller) and Zhang Shilong (known ... Read More Hacker Discloses New Unpatched Windows Zero-Day Exploit On Twitter A security researcher with Twitter alias SandboxEscaper today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Microsoft's Windows operating system. SandboxEscaper is the same researcher who previously publicly dropped exploits for two Windows zero-day ... Read More Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch For Under-Attack IE Zero Day Microsoft today issued an out-of-band security update to patch a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that attackers are already exploiting in the wild to hack into Windows computers. Discovered by security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis ... Read More Mayday! NASA Warns Employees of Personal Information Breach Another day, another data breach. This time it's the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) NASA today confirmed a data breach that may have compromised personal information of some of its current and former employees after at least one of the agency's servers was ... Read More Threat Intelligence Report Download the new report on threat intelligence trends, challenges and solutions. 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