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13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man " Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The two year long Operation Phish Phry saw US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US Attorney's Office working in unison with the Egyptian law enforcement agencies. The US District Court for the Central District of Los Angeles had sentenced Lucas to 11 years in prison late last week. Read More Here

u MasterCard again down by Ddos attack in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous Today ibomhacktivist tweet " MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals :D " We have check that is  MasterCard.com is really down & YEAH , Its down (  Via  ). The Ddos Attack is in support of Wikileaks & Anonymous by Hackers. This can be the part of Operation Antisec started by Lulzsec and Anonymous Together. It's irrelevant if the ip's are traceable or not. It will not be possible for any police or court differentiate between the users who voluntered to the task and the ones who had their computer hijacked (with a virus). This is 2nd time MasterCard becomes the target of Anonymous.

774 Websites hacked by ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC) Pakistani hackers Group " ZCOMPANY HACKING CREW (ZHC)" Hack 774 more websites. They leave a message on every deface page as shown.  The list of hacked sites , mirrors and Message is posted by them on Pastie at  https://pastie.org/2132590

Double nibble URI decoding XSS Vulnerability on   EC Council website What EC Council is ? They offers certifications in certified ethical hacker ceh, Computer Security, network security, internet security program and computer forensics and penetration testing. Information Security, Ethical Hacking, Computer Forensics, Advanced Penetration Testing, Application Security, Disaster Recovery and other critical Information Security Topics and Security Courses. XSS POC : Link : Click Here Submitted By :  Nulled Byte

2000 Websites defaced by The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) Tunisian HaCker 17 Years old The 077 ( Hamdi HAcKer ) from Tunisia strike again to 2000 websites with mass defacement. List/Mirror of hacked sites are here :  https://www.zone-h.com/archive/notifier=The%20077   (Use proxy to open link, if your are not able to open it directly)

Operations AntiSec : Anonymous takes down Tunisian government site As LulzSec calling it quits, but the hacking via Operations AntiSec continues. Hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility of taking down Tunisian government's official website moments ago.The seized domain now displays text posted by Anonymous, along with a masked image that signifies the hacker collective as shown. Anonymous said " The internet is the last frontier and we will not let corrupt governments spoil it.We are Anonymous, We are LulzSec, We are People from around the world who are stepping in the name of freedom. " Tunisian government blocks social networking sites Facebook and YouTube. Several other sites filtered which include, porn sites, gay and lesbian sites, dating sites etc.

ThePiratebay removes  50 Days Of Lulz Yesterday Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. The group confirmed its retirement . With this they also Released a Torrent file : https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6495523/50_Days_of_Lulz Thepiratebay just deleted the lulzsec torrent " 50 days of lulz " , reason theres some virus in it. Check Virus Details here . Thepiratebay does not allow files that are mislabeled, or contain virus/trojan's, or child pornography. Being as how this torrent was extremely popular, it may have infected 100's of thousands of people already. Lulzsec's account on thepiratebay was not banned so they are cleared to upload the same torrent again without the alleged "trojan". @AnonymousIRC said, " We will see to get a clean torrent up ASAP. #AntiSec " . We do have to wonder, what happens now ? Does the Internet go back to normal with websites ...

Toggle.com [ forum & blog ] hacked by   CYB-IMP [ Cyber Impossibilities ] One of the biggest Software download website  Toggle.com with world rank 10,000 got hacked by a new hackers group called CYB-IMP [ Cyber Impossibilities ]  . They Deface   forum.toggle.com and blog.toggle.com  as shown (Mirrors of hack given below) The groups members are : L0ckreader'z the one who done the most of work & other are : masterSELL ; Oldfacce ; PretoriaN. ; Snnuzz  This Hack was done by 16 P.M. Today and this was as a presentation of new group CYB-IMP ,in the deface page there is shown the Albanian flag so they represented themselves as ALBANIANS . Hackers also leak the database and Server Info on Pastie : //// ### FORUM & BLOG TOGGLE.COM OWNED ### \\\\ blog.toggle.com db : define('DB_NAME', 'blogtog_wordpress'); /** Tu nombre de usuario de MySQL */ define('DB_USER', 'blogtog_blogtog'); /** Tu contraseГѓВ±a de MySQL */ defin...