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Today's security leaders must manage a constantly evolving attack surface and a dynamic threat environment due to interconnected devices, cloud services, IoT technologies, and hybrid work environments. Adversaries are constantly introducing new attack techniques, and not all companies have internal Red Teams or unlimited security resources to stay on top of the latest threats. On top of that, today's attackers are indiscriminate and every business - big or small - needs to be prepared. It is no longer enough for security teams to  detect and respond ; we must now also  predict and prevent . To handle today's security environment, defenders need to be agile and innovative. In short, we need to start thinking like a hacker.  Taking the mindset of an opportunistic threat actor allows you to not only gain a better understanding of potentially exploitable pathways, but also to more effectively prioritize your remediation efforts. It also helps you move past potentially harm...

[THN] The Hacker News Exclusive   Report on  Sony 3rd Attack Issue ! On May 5th 2011 THN received an email that Hackers once again attacked Sony for the 3rd Time. The Hacker News is a responsible an online Hacker News Organisation. We propagate news specifically related to security threats.  Also, hacking threads and security issues from all over the world.  We are NOT associated with any HACKING GROUP like ANONYMOUS or Others . Lets talk about the " 3rd Sony Hack Issue ". As I said, on 5th May we got the mail from a hacker  that they got some new Information from Sony's Site. Here the Email Screenshot : We check the links, that contains some waste list of user names , Even there is not a single email ID in whole excel sheet that can be used against some spam/hack. Then why Sony so Scared ?? Now WHAT? !!  Is  it our responsibility as The Hacker News , that we inform Sony and Other Cyber Security Experts that hackers can attack again...

In what's the latest instance of a software supply chain attack, unknown threat actors managed to compromise Toptal's GitHub organization account and leveraged that access to publish 10 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages contained code to exfiltrate GitHub authentication tokens and destroy victim systems, Socket said in a report published last week. In addition, 73 repositories associated with the organization were made public. The list of affected packages is below - @toptal/picasso-tailwind @toptal/picasso-charts @toptal/picasso-shared @toptal/picasso-provider @toptal/picasso-select @toptal/picasso-quote @toptal/picasso-forms @xene/core @toptal/picasso-utils @toptal/picasso-typograph All the Node.js libraries were embedded with identical payloads in their package.json files, attracting a total of about 5,000 downloads before they were removed from the repository. The nefarious code has been found to specifically target the preinstall and p...

In Brief Britain's top crime fighting force has failed in a legal attempt to force alleged hacker Lauri Love to hand over his hard disk's encryption keys. In a landmark case, District Judge Nina Tempia said the investigative agency should have used the normal police powers rather than a civil action to obtain the evidence. Lauri Love, a 31-year-old hacker, has been accused of aiding cyber-attacks against U.S. targets, including NASA, FBI, US Army and US Federal Reserve networks. The National Crime Agency (NCA) has failed in a legal attempt to force the British citizen and political hacktivist Lauri Love to hand over the keys to encrypted data that has been seized from his home two years ago. At a Tuesday hearing in Court Seven at Westminster Magistrates' Court, the NCA's application to make Love disclose his encrypted computer passwords was refused by the judge. Hacker Fighting Extradition to U.S. Love, 31, is currently fighting extradition to the Uni...

New research has uncovered that publishers of over 100 Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions leaked access tokens that could be exploited by bad actors to update the extensions, posing a critical software supply chain risk. "A leaked VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX PAT [personal access token] allows an attacker to directly distribute a malicious extension update across the entire install base," Wiz security researcher Rami McCarthy said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "An attacker who discovered this issue would have been able to directly distribute malware to the cumulative 150,000 install base." The cloud security firm noted in many cases publishers failed to account for the fact that VS Code extensions, while distributed as .vsix files, can be unzipped and inspected, exposing hard-coded secrets embedded into them. In all, Wiz said it found over 550 validated secrets, distributed across more than 500 extensions from hundreds of distinct publishers....

On Tuesday, Indian and Pakistani army forces continued to exchange fire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir, which was started when Pakistan's military fired machine guns and mortars at about 60 Indian army posts during last week. Tensions between the two countries have intensified since Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the only son of former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, made a statement that his Pakistan People's Party (PPP) would take back entire Kashmir from India. However, the Indian political party described his statement as " childish " and " irresponsible ." Different reactions came from different people out there from India for the chairman of Pakistan People's Party and Central Executive Committee Bilawal Bhutto, but Hackers have their own way of expressing their part. Here Bilawal Bhutto said that he would not leave an inch of Kashmir with India, and there an Indian Hacker defac...

Coca-Cola Norway Hacked by Greek Hacking Scene (GHS) An Impressive cyberattack was executed by a ​​Greek hacker against the official website of the multinational company Coca-Cola in Norway with defacement in internal links of the website. In a demonstration of power, the Greek hacker with the pseudonym «Napsterakos», identified weakness in the company's website-giant Coca-Cola, and defaced on purpose to post his own messages. As SecNews was informed by an anonymous reader giving us details about the incident, the attack was made as the first attack of the operation «Greek Hacking Scene vs Corruption», The hacker «Napsterakos», in a message posted on Pastebin states that "when the future is based on lies, then everyone is corrupt ..." and that "~ We were everywhere we see and hear everything in a future based on lies anyone is corrupted, all must pay, and will do so in one way or another. The words acquire value only through their actions. ~ ' See [ here...

Mitron (means "friends" in Hindi), you have been fooled again! Mitron is not really a 'Made in India' product, and the viral app contains a highly critical, unpatched vulnerability that could allow anyone to hack into any user account without requiring interaction from the targeted users or their passwords. I am sure many of you already know what TikTok is, and those still unaware, it's a highly popular video social platform where people upload short videos of themselves doing things like lip-syncing and dancing. The wrath faced by Chinese-owned TikTok from all directions—mostly due to data security and ethnopolitical reasons—gave birth to new alternatives in the market, one of which is the Mitron app for Android. Mitron video social platform recently caught headlines when the Android app crazily gained over 5 million installations and 250,000 5-star ratings in just 48 days after being released on the Google Play Store. Popped out of nowhere, Mitron i...

A new attack vector targeting the Visual Studio Code extensions marketplace could be leveraged to upload rogue extensions masquerading as their legitimate counterparts with the goal of mounting supply chain attacks. The technique "could act as an entry point for an attack on many organizations," Aqua security researcher Ilay Goldman  said  in a report published last week. VS Code extensions, curated via a  marketplace  made available by Microsoft, allow developers to add programming languages, debuggers, and tools to the VS Code source-code editor to augment their workflows.  "All extensions run with the privileges of the user that has opened the VS Code without any sandbox," Goldman said, explaining the potential risks of using VS Code extensions. "This means that the extension can install any program on your computer including ransomwares, wipers, and more." To that end, Aqua found that not only is it possible for a threat actor to impersonate a po...

Insider Threats vs Hackers - by Emmett Jorgensen Emmett Jorgensen has worked in IT and Infosec for over 10 years. He works for Kanguru Solutions (www.kanguru.com), a manufacturer of secure portable storage solutions. Article taken from 'The Hacker News' Magazine - October Edition. You can Download it from Here . News about cyber security, Anonymous, and Lulzsec are constantly making headlines these days, as well they should. It seems that Anonymous is hacking into confidential information on an almost weekly basis. Yet, despite this talk of external risks, the real threat to businesses often comes from within, in the form of insider threats. Although the intent of a hacker is generally more insidious, the insider threat is more prevalent simply due to an employee's access to company data. Insiders often have access to sensitive data without having to circumvent security measures designed to keep out external threats. But which is really a bigger threat to your orga...

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers,                          We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think Hacking is going anywhere and neither are we!! Your feedback is very important to us. Feel free to send us your thoughts and desires for Hacking news. If you want to write an editorial, let us know. We'd love to include it next month. For now, we will see you in our daily and best wishes for a great month. Content of October Edition: Linux - Means Freedom How to make my Linux Secure ? Hackathon Insider Threads Vs Hackers Linux : How to Series by Alok Srivastav Window 8 - Touch the Future The Security Model of Window 8 Server Microsoft Security Development Cycle September Cybe...

China's number one — and the world's 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi , which is trying to make inroads into India's booming mobile phone market, was found secretly sending users' personal data , including IMEI numbers, phone numbers and text messages to the web servers back to Beijing in China. INDIA AND TAIWAN vs XIAOMI This issue raised higher concerns across many countries, proactively in India, Singapore and Taiwan. The Indian Air Force (IAF) — among the largest in the world — warned its employees and their belongings that their private information was being shipped over to servers in China, and asked them to avoid using Xiaomi smartphones due to security risk. Taiwanese Government underlined similar concerns before Xiaomi's launch in India. Xiaomi is facing an investigation in Taiwan for alleged cyber security threat, as a result of which last month the Taiwanese government decided to ban the company due to several privacy controversies. When i...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious extension in the Open VSX registry that harbors a remote access trojan called SleepyDuck . According to Secure Annex's John Tuckner, the extension in question, juan-bianco.solidity-vlang (version 0.0.7), was first published on October 31, 2025, as a completely benign library that was subsequently updated to version 0.0.8 on November 1 to include new malicious capabilities after reaching 14,000 downloads. "The malware includes sandbox evasion techniques and utilizes an Ethereum contract to update its command and control address in case the original address is taken down," Tuckner added . Campaigns distributing rogue extensions targeting Solidity developers have been repeatedly detected across both the Visual Studio Extension Marketplace and Open VSX. In July 2025, Kaspersky disclosed that a Russian developer lost $500,000 in cryptocurrency assets after installing one such extension through Cursor. In the latest...

" TeaM DNA StuXnet Shell v1.0 " is ripped copy of " Predator Shell " ! " TeaM DNA StuXnet " have submit us a shell named " TeaM DNA StuXnet Shell v1.0 " to publish as news, They claimed that this is a news and original shell. Shell is created by " Cyb3r Ac3 " . We request  Pakistan Cyber Army (Real PCA is Reality) for some research on a new shell posted by " TeaM DNA StuXnet ". Finally we got whole report that The " TeaM DNA StuXnet Shell v1.0 " is 100% ripped copy of " Predator Shell " Written by " LoFFi & Ls01r " who are said to be some " Russian " freaks.They just find and replace "color=#888888" with "color=#0961d9" .The best part about this shell is " LoFFi & Ls01r " also ripped another shell named " crashblack a.k.a vi0ne " an Indonesian hacker who wrote the shell named " System Shell ". " LoFFi & Ls01r " tran...