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Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain

Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain

Mar 22, 2012
Anonymous Attacker Package by Maxpain " Maxpain " Hacker and Security Developer, Releases two tools in an Package called " Anonymous Attacker Package ". First one is - Anonymous external attack , allows you to execute udp flood web attack, into websites, this tool was made as external of LOIC, the following package contains : #Anonymous External Attack - A console application made in C# that allows you to flood the websites with anonymous style , and sending 4096 packets each second. The program delays some seconds for each packet that it makes, so it flood effectively without lagging your own connections. Cool for DDoS attacks. (213kb file) #Anonymous DNS Extractor - Extracts the dns and ip servers of the following website, Developer included this program, cause in the target ip of AEA - anonymous external attack you need to use an IP. (128kb file) Both of programs are really light and console applications, by giving you the ultimate experience web attack.
Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked

Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked

Mar 18, 2012
Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked Co-Cain Warriors hackers today hack into 6 National Television Stations of Iran including Broadcasting Elam Center, IRIB Kermanshah Center, IRIB Kerman and 3 more. Hacker upload the deface page on their server and announce the day as " HappY 7Sin Day ". With growing conflicts in middle east more intrusions and DDOS attack on Iranian websites. Iran has been identified as the main cyber threat to the United States,Israel and European Countries. Yesterday we also report that, Iran's cyber defense headquarters has succeeded in making internal mail servers which would enable Iranian organizations and bodies to use local email addresses. Also last week, Iran launched a sophisticated cyber-attack against BBC Persian TV, according to the BBC News. The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrupt the BBC's Persian service. This attack follows various tactics by the Iranian government, s
AI Copilot: Launching Innovation Rockets, But Beware of the Darkness Ahead

AI Copilot: Launching Innovation Rockets, But Beware of the Darkness Ahead

Apr 15, 2024Secure Coding / Artificial Intelligence
Imagine a world where the software that powers your favorite apps, secures your online transactions, and keeps your digital life could be outsmarted and taken over by a cleverly disguised piece of code. This isn't a plot from the latest cyber-thriller; it's actually been a reality for years now. How this will change – in a positive or negative direction – as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on a larger role in software development is one of the big uncertainties related to this brave new world. In an era where AI promises to revolutionize how we live and work, the conversation about its security implications cannot be sidelined. As we increasingly rely on AI for tasks ranging from mundane to mission-critical, the question is no longer just, "Can AI  boost cybersecurity ?" (sure!), but also "Can AI  be hacked? " (yes!), "Can one use AI  to hack? " (of course!), and "Will AI  produce secure software ?" (well…). This thought leadership article is about the latter. Cydrill  (a
Anonymous-OS 0.1 : Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System

Anonymous-OS 0.1 : Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System

Mar 14, 2012
Yes! Its true,  Anonymous Hackers released their own Operating System with name " Anonymous-OS" , is Live is an ubuntu-based distribution and created under Ubuntu 11.10 and uses Mate desktop. You can create the LiveUSB with  Unetbootin . Also Read: Top Best Password Managers . Also Read: Deep Web Search Engines . Pre-installed apps on Anonymous-OS: - ParolaPass Password Generator - Find Host IP - Anonymous HOIC - Ddosim - Pyloris - Slowloris - TorsHammer - Sqlmap - Havij - Sql Poison - Admin Finder - John the Ripper - Hash Identifier - Tor - XChat IRC - Pidgin - Vidalia - Polipo - JonDo - i2p - Wireshark - Zenmap …and more Download Anonymous-OS 0.1 Warning : It is not developed by any Genuine Source, can be backdoored OS by any Law enforcement Company or Hacker. Use at your own Risk. Update: Another Live OS for  anonymity available called " Tails ". Which is a live CD or live USB that aims at preserving your privacy and
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Today's Top 4 Identity Threat Exposures: Where To Find Them and How To Stop Them

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Explore the first ever threat report 100% focused on the prevalence of identity security gaps you may not be aware of.
Vatican Radio hacked by Anonymous Hackers

Vatican Radio hacked by Anonymous Hackers

Mar 13, 2012
Vatican Radio hacked by Anonymous Hackers The hacktivist group Anonymous has taken down the Vatican's website for a second time. The attack is part of the organization's recent declaration of war against religion. The personal data of journalists at Vatican radio was leaked online and the Vatican's website hacked for the second time in several days both attacks believed to be the work of the amorphous Internet activist group Anonymous. Unlike the first hack , which appeared to be a typical Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, this one is more than just taking down the website. Vatican officials declined to discuss the breach while the attack was still under way. " We regret having to announce that your systems are less secure than what you would like to believe, because, while the hype was directed toward the darkening of vatican.va, we took the liberty to implement a small incursion into your systems, " the statement reads. Anonymous justified its attack by
Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC

Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC

Mar 13, 2012
Another  DDOS tool  from Anonymous  -  HOIC A new DDoS tool from Anonymous called high-orbit ion canon or HOIC come into light. Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and tools in response to defender's actions. HOIC is an Windows executable file. Once started, you will be presented with the following GUI screen. If the attacker clicks on the + sign under TARGETS they get another pop-up box where you can specify target data. The attacker can then specify the following Target data. After the attacker clicks on the Add button, they are taken back to the main screen. The attacker can then adjust the THREADS number if desired to further increase the strength of the attack. When they are ready to lauch the attack, they click on the "FIRE TEH LAZER!" button. LOIC had both TCP and UDP DDoS attacks in addition to HTTP attacks were as HOIC is strictly an HTTP DoS tool. The real difference, or enhancement, that HOIC has over LOIC is its use of what it calls "Boost
Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network

Mar 07, 2012
Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network Unidentified hackers have broken into the website of the Turkish government claimed to be Part of Anonymous Group of Hackers. The hackers aimed to access official documents on government correspondence but were prevented from doing so by on-duty information technology experts. Anonymous, members of which have so far attacked many websites worldwide for various reasons. The Prime Ministry tightened cybersecurity measures and implemented a new network firewall following the attack. The website was under DDoS attack for 2 hours. Turkish specialists managed to counter the attacks with new software. There has been no information on data leakage.Attacks were made from State Virginia, USA, and China.
Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack !

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack !

Mar 07, 2012
Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebook said that its service was unavailable in some European countries this morning because of technical problems. Third parties suggested a problem with Facebook's European DNS servers may have been at the root. These machines connect the address "Facebook.com" with the actual content of the website, and during the outage attempts to contact to them as normal received no response. DownRightNow, which monitors major web services, showed Facebook having suffered ongoing intermittent service until mid-afternoon.CERT.Be, a Belgian government agency, claimed that the outage was due to a DDoS hacker attack, but this has not been confirmed. Later Facebook announce, ' The issue ha
DDOS attack on LIME’s Internet system

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system

Mar 07, 2012
DDOS attack on LIME 's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of service, which is defined as an explicit attempt to prevent legitimate users from accessing or utilising the particular service. " The attack, though confined to a small portion of LIME's Internet customer base, inconvenienced the affected customers and gave the appearance of a widescale service-impacting problem on the company's network, " noted a statement from the company. LIME has announced plans to take legal action against the person responsible for an attack on its network, which resulted in internet service disruptions to hundreds of customers over the last week. Managing Director, Alex McDonald says engineers implemented some changes in the broadband network to isolate the IP addr
THOR : Another P2P Botnet in development with extra stealth features

THOR : Another P2P Botnet in development with extra stealth features

Mar 06, 2012
THOR : Another P2P Botnet in development with extra stealth features The research community is now focusing on the integration of peer-to-peer (P2P) concepts as incremental improvements to distributed malicious software networks (now generically referred to as botnets). Because "botnets" can be used for illicit financial gain,they have become quite popular in recent Internet attacks. A " botnet " is a network of computers that are compromised and controlled by an attacker. Each computer is infected witha malicious program called a "bot", which actively communicates with other bots in the botnet or with several "botcontrollers" to receive commands from the botnet owner. Attackers maintain complete control of their botnets, andcan conduct Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks,email spamming, keylogging, abusing online advertisements, spreading new malware, etc. However, the first botnets that use peer-to-peer (P2P) networks for remote control of the compromised machines appeare
Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition

Mar 01, 2012
Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition It is March Madness at The Hacker News as we release the latest edition of our magazine which gives internet security a thorough look and and a fascinating read. Pierluigi Paganini gives a great interview on the woes of internet security and Mourad Ben Lakhousa provides you with a comprehensive guide on what tools are available to keep your web activity private. Check out Lee Ives opinion piece on the plethora of DDOS attacks and stand firm with our Editor, Patti Galle as we tell the world we won't stand for internet piracy. Laugh with us as we take a hilarious look at recent internet security news and we promise you won't be disappointed in all the articles touching on matters important to us all. Enjoy! RAR Format  |  PDF Format
Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain

Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain

Feb 24, 2012
Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain Anonymous attacks Official Site of the National Police ( https://policia.es/ ) after the arrests of suspected Anonymous hacktivists . The Spanish branch of the group has reported that six hacktivists have been arrested in Spain over the past few days. The police did not confirm the identity of the suspects, but claimed the force's technological investigation brigade is conducting a large operation. Anonymous Tweet : " @AnonOps 6 #Anonymous were caught by the police in spain. They're talking about a big anti-hack operation" We know. Expect uspolicia.es DOWN | #Anonymous #Spain " . Last week, Following the arrest of three young Anonymous hackers in Greece, the collective carried out a second assault on the ministry of justice's website, defacing its homepage. Last June Anonymous launched #OpPolicia, a successful DDoS attack against the Spanish National Police website. The attack was a direc
Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles

Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles

Feb 18, 2012
Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles These Days Anonymous Hacker Group using a new tool WebLOIC . This tool is even easier to use than LOIC DDOS tool, requiring no download, it sends requests using Javascript in the user's browser. Just like LOIC, it is a quick path to prison, sending thousands of requests from your IP address to the target, accompanied by a slogan. Recently Hackers Release and New Interface of WebLOIC, ie. for Android Mobile in the form of an Application named " LOIC para Android by Alfred ". They Spread this tool via Anonymous social network accounts to execute the new attack in Various Anonymous operations against Argentinian government - such as #opargentina #iberoamerica. When Attacker will click " Fire ", a JavaScript will sends 1,000 HTTP requests with the message " We are LEGION! " that perform DoS attacks of Given Target URL. This Application is Available to Download here .
Indian Stock Market next target of Bangladesh Hackers

Indian Stock Market next target of Bangladesh Hackers

Feb 15, 2012
Indian Stock Market next target of Bangladesh Hackers Bangladesh Cyber Army hackers released a Youtube video mentioning their next attack would be on Indian Stock Market, in order to Protesting the killing of another Bangladeshi citizen on Border by BSF. Bangladesh Cyber Army has attacked 3 important Indian Stock Market sites : https://www.dseindia.com/ https://www.nseindia.com/ https://www.paisacontrol.com/ The websites were down during the peak hour. So all types of online transaction was off. The sites faced DDoS attacks and were down for around 10 hours. This caused a huge amount of loss in the financial sector of India. The amount of loss may reach millions of rupees as well. Bangladesh Cyber Army mentioned that they are still not done. They will continue their attacks if BSF does not stop their brutality over innocent Bangladeshi citizens. They also mentioned that these high-profile sites will suffer continuous attacks if the points mentioned by them are not accepted. Bangladesh
Anonymous Hackers target Nasdaq website

Anonymous Hackers target Nasdaq website

Feb 15, 2012
Anonymous Hackers target Nasdaq website Websites of exchange operators Nasdaq and BATS have been attacked by hackers over the last 24 hours, causing ongoing disruptions for those trying to use the sites. Sites was down because of distributed denial-of-service attack from a group of Anonymous hackers. L0NGwave99 ,a online hacktivist, is claiming to be responsible for the attack. In a release issued Tuesday, an operative writes " This DDoS Operation over NASDAQ is done in support of the great and rooted 99% movement, whom the L0NGwave99 Group has decided to give a present ." " The website wasn't hacked, nobody got any information. What they did was try to block access for our users ," NASDAQ spokesman Joseph Christinat adds to the agency. Trading in Nasdaq stocks has not been affected by the attacks. According to reports, the attacks have also affected the NasdaqTrader.com site, although it seems to be fine at the moment. " The website wasn't hacke
Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other

Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other

Feb 12, 2012
Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other They Call it " Cyber war " - but In actual they are destroying Cyber Space of their own Country by Defacing Sites for a matter that can't be solved by Ministry like this. The cyber attacks was started two days back from both sides. Indian Hacking Group Indishell become active once again against Bangladesh Black Hat Hackers. The whole issue of these Hacks by Bangladeshi Hackers are because of BSF brutality at the India-Bangladesh border zone as they mentioned on Defaced Pages. In Return Indian hackers hacked a little over 30 government websites of Bangladesh yesterday. Bangladeshi hacking group Bangladesh Cyber Army then showed up to save their country's cyber space they started attacking back. Bangladesh Cyber Army and other Bangladeshi Hackers took down around 30 Indian Government websites and 4 other high-profile websites in last two days. Most of sites become victim of DDoS attacks resulting
Cia.gov Tango Down - #FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous

Cia.gov Tango Down - #FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous

Feb 10, 2012
#FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous, cia.gov Tango Down ! Anonymous has struck again at Central Intelligence Agency, The site went down about 3:10 p.m. apparently under a massive distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack. No specific reason for the attack was announced, nor were any specific groups or individuals within Anonymous named as the attackers. Anonymous took credit for crashing the websites of the US Department of Homeland Security, which was quickly revived, and the FBI. CIA's site is still down even two hours after the attack. One of the twitter accounts affiliated with Anonymous issued a statement on the reasons of the attack: " We do it for the lulz, " referring to the popular online abbreviation " for laughs ." Two weeks ago, the online group also released the audio of a conference call between the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and Britain's Scotland Yard counterpart targeting members of the largely untraceable group. It was done as part of th
“Cyber China”, from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

Feb 08, 2012
" Cyber China ", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from  Security Affairs  -  Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security. Read and decide for yourself : When we think of China in relation to cyber warfare, we imagine an army of hackers hired by the government in a computer room ready to successfully attack any potential target. China is perceived as a cyber power and ready to march against any insurmountable obstacle using any means. In this connection we read everything and its opposite, and we are ready to blame all sorts of cyber threat to the Country of the Rising Sun. The truth, however, is quite different, at least in my opinion, and understands that the Chinese people before others have understood the importance of a strategic hegemony in cyber space. However, many doubts are beginning to gather
Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration

Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration

Feb 05, 2012
Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration Bilal Bokhari from zer0byte.com Illustrated perfect example of Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack on his blog. Bilal want to share this article with our Readers at THN, Have a look : If we look at the history of computer development, the computer developers/engineers just 10 years back did not have any clue as to how this industry is going to be, the way this industry we have today. The Computers and its applications nowadays are more powerful and much smarter than ever before. Computer applications are used in every industry like engineering, designing, music programming, web development etc which enables their users to come up with amazing products every day. So far so good the story of the computer development sounds amazing but there is a problem with its development. When computer applications are developed, they are not particularly a complete perfect solution. They contain some flaws or bugs which can be exploi
Ani-Shell v1.5 (Final) Released

Ani-Shell v1.5 (Final) Released

Jan 30, 2012
Ani-Shell v1.5 (Final) Released Ani-Shell is a simple PHP shell with some unique features like Mass Mailer , A simple Web-Server Fuzzer , a DDoser etc! This shell has immense capabilities and have been written with some coding standards in mind for better editing and customization Features: Shell Mass Mailer DDos Web-Server Fuzzer Uploader Design Login Mass Code Injector (Appender and Overwriter) Encoded Title Back Connect Bind Shell Lock Mode Customisable Tracebacks (email alerts) PHP Evaluate PHP MD5 Cracker Anti-Crawler Mass Deface New in This Version :- Better CSS Intelligent File Manager Auto Rooter PHP Obfuscater Google Dork Creator Zip Downloader (Download any File or Directory from the web-server) Fixed the Memory Exhausted Error in MD5 Cracker login : lionaneesh pass : lionaneesh Download Here
Brazil Under Anonymous Attack - Tangara da Serra city site defaced !

Brazil Under Anonymous Attack - Tangara da Serra city site defaced !

Jan 22, 2012
Brazil Under Anonymous Attack - Tangara da Serra city site defaced ! Anonymous Hackers attacked websites of Brazil's federal district and Tangara da Serra city on Sunday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. The attacks this week, which they call " #opmegaupload " shut down the websites of the FBI and US Justice Department for several hours to protest the closure of Megaupload.com. Hackers succeed in shutting down the website of popular Brazilian singer Paula Fernandes . They posted the image of a grim-faced joker with a message saying, " If Megaupload is down, you are down too ." It was signed " GhostofThreads ". Anonymous use DDoS attacks tools like so-called Low Orbit Ion Cannon  which is a piece of software that volunteer hacktivists download to their PCs and choose to run, whereby it then starts blasting the target website with traffic. Stats says that , in last 7 days LOIC downlo
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