hacking
Illinois man charged with hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
U.S. prosecutors have charged an Illinois man with orchestrating a phishing operation that allowed him to hack the Snapchat accounts of nearly 600 women to steal private photos and sell them online. Between May 2020 and February 2021, 26-year-old defendant Kyle Svara allegedly used various social engineering tactics to obtain victims’ emails, phone numbers, and […]
Zeroday Cloud hacking event awards $320,0000 for 11 zero days
The Zeroday Cloud hacking competition in London has awarded researchers $320,000 for demonstrating critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in components used in cloud infrastructure. The first hacking event focused on cloud systems, the competition is hosted by Wiz Research in partnership with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google Cloud. The researchers were successful in 85% of the […]
French Interior Ministry confirms cyberattack on email servers
The French Interior Minister confirmed on Friday that the country’s Ministry of the Interior was breached in a cyberattack that compromised e-mail servers. While the attack (detected overnight between Thursday, December 11, and Friday, December 12) allowed the threat actors to gain access to some document files, officials have yet to confirm whether data was […]
Kali Linux 2025.4 released with 3 new tools, desktop updates
Kali Linux has released version 2025.4, its final update of the year, introducing three new hacking tools, desktop environment improvements, the preview of Wifipumpkin3 in NetHunter, and enhanced Wayland support. Kali Linux is a distribution designed for cybersecurity professionals and ethical hackers to perform red-teaming, penetration testing, security assessments, and network research. The distribution is […]
Poland arrests Ukrainians utilizing ‘advanced’ hacking equipment
The police in Poland arrested three Ukrainian nationals for allegedly attempting to damage IT systems in the country using hacking equipment and for obtaining “computer data of particular importance to national defense.” The three men, aged between 39 and 43, could not explain why they were carrying the electronic devices. They now face charges of fraud, computer […]
Contractors with hacking records accused of wiping 96 govt databases
U.S. prosecutors have charged two Virginia brothers arrested on Wednesday with allegedly conspiring to steal sensitive information and destroy government databases after being fired from their jobs as federal contractors. Twin brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter, both 34, were also sentenced to several years in prison in June 2015, after pleading guilty to accessing U.S. State Department systems without […]
Yanluowang initial access broker pleaded guilty to ransomware attacks
A Russian national will plead guilty to acting as an initial access broker (IAB) for Yanluowang ransomware attacks that targeted at least eight U.S. companies between July 2021 and November 2022. According to a plea agreement signed by the defendant on October 29, first spotted by Court Watch editor Seamus Hughes, Aleksey Olegovich Volkov (who used the “chubaka.kor” and “nets” aliases) […]
Hackers earn $1,024,750 for 73 zero-days at Pwn2Own Ireland
The Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition has ended with security researchers collecting $1,024,750 in cash awards after exploiting 73 zero-day vulnerabilities. At Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, competitors targeted products in eight categories, including printers, network storage systems, messaging apps, smart home devices, surveillance equipment, home networking equipment, flagship smartphones (Apple iPhone 16, Samsung Galaxy S25, and Google Pixel 9), and wearable […]
Pwn2Own Day 2: Hackers exploit 56 zero-days for $790,000
Security researchers collected $792,750 in cash after exploiting 56 unique zero-day vulnerabilities during the second day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition. Today’s highlight was Ken Gannon of Mobile Hacking Lab and Dimitrios Valsamaras of Summoning Team hacking the Samsung Galaxy S25 with a chain of five security flaws, earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points. Also, while PHP Hooligans needed only a single […]
Hackers exploit 34 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland
On the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, security researchers exploited 34 unique zero-days and collected $522,500 in cash awards. The highlight of the day was Bongeun Koo and Evangelos Daravigkas of Team DDOS chaining eight zero-day flaws to hack the QNAP Qhora-322 Ethernet wireless router via the WAN interface and gain access to a QNAP TS-453E NAS device. […]