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Website Backdoor Scripts Leverage the Pastebin Service

Website Backdoor Scripts Leverage the Pastebin Service

Jan 08, 2015
The popular copy and paste website ' Pastebin ' created a decade ago for software developers and even by hackers groups to share source code, dumps and stolen data, has more recently been leveraged by cyber criminals to target millions of users. Compromising a website and then hosting malware on it has become an old tactic for hackers, and now they are trying their hands in compromising vast majority of users in a single stroke. Researchers have discovered that hackers are now using Pastebin to spread malicious backdoor code. According to a blog post published yesterday by a senior malware researcher at Sucuri , Denis Sinegubko, the hackers are leveraging the weakness in older versions of the RevSlider , a popular and a premium WordPress plugin. The plugin comes packaged and bundled into the websites’ themes in such a way that many website owners don't even know they have it. In order to exploit the vulnerability, first hackers look for a RevSlider plugin i...
Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael

Apr 07, 2013
A cyber attack campaign, dubbed #OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous threatened to disrupt and erase Israel from cyberspace in protest over its mistreatment of Palestinians. In response to the eight day assault that killed 133 Palestinians , Anonymous defaced thousands of Israeli sites and provided information for Gazans facing Internet and communications blackouts.  60 million hacking attempts were reportedly made. Most of the attacks have had little impact, and Israeli experts even say they welcome the attempts as ways of sharpening their defenses. Israel itself is accused of taking part in much more sophisticated cyber attacks against its enemies, particularly Iran. List of all hacked sites are available in fo...
50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue

50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue

Jun 26, 2011
50 Days of Lulz - LulzSec Says Goodbye & Operation AntiSec will Continue Hacker group LulzSec has announced that after 50 days of hacking companies and organizations, it is finally done. LulzSec tweet a message which was posted on Pastebin : http://pastebin.com/1znEGmHa The group confirmed its retirement on the LulzSec Twitter feed , which managed to amass 277,540 followers during its short stint online. “ For the past 50 days we’ve been disrupting and exposing corporations, governments, often the general population itself, and quite possibly everything in between, just because we could ,” writes LulzSec. “ All to selflessly entertain others – vanity, fame, recognition, all of these things are shadowed by our desire for that which we all love. The raw, uninterrupted, chaotic thrill of entertainment and anarchy. ” The group was also behind attacks on Sony, attacks on PBS, the US Senate, the CIA, and a slew of gaming sites popular with 4Chan users including EVE Online, M...
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More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika

Oct 17, 2011
More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika Another group of Hackers, self titled Team Swastika, have caused panic amongst Facebook users after releasing the details of 10,000 accounts onto popular text sharing site, Pastebin. Pastebin, usually used to share source code, has frequently been host to a number of text files that contain the details of specific hacks by hackitivists and hacker groups. Team Swastika is just one of these hackitivist groups but claims to be the most powerful hacking team in Nepal. They also said that next target will be Nepal Government website. Facebook hacked account dump: http://pastebin.com/KYsd0j5B (part1) - Removed by Pastebin http://pastebin.com/nN5uDrQS (part2) - Removed by Pastebin
UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked

Nov 08, 2011
UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked The personal data of several political parliamentarians, ministers, Minister of UMP French Political Party employees were released online by an unknown source. The leak contain the details of  Bernard Accoyer, Lionel Tardy, Jean Tiberi, Georges Tron, Christian Vanneste, Jean Luc Warsmann, Laurent Wauquiez, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Patrick Balkany, Jean Francois Cope, etc.. Korben  publish  that , The leak available in 4 files posted on Pastebin under the name " French Right Wing Hacked "which includes personal information on over 1000 frames of the UMP. Database Dumps: -  http://pastebin.com/kpGWv9qD -  http://pastebin.com/WG7Ffh5t -  http://pastebin.com/jWA4RkCG -  http://pastebin.com/9tcqrFBX The first four of these files reveals all the potential variables specified for each record. Status, title, date and place of birth, education, employees, telephone numbers, business ...
Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware

Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware

Mar 13, 2026 Cyber Espionage / Military Security
A suspected China-based cyber espionage operation has targeted Southeast Asian military organizations as part of a state-sponsored campaign that dates back to at least 2020. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the threat activity under the moniker CL-STA-1087 , where CL refers to cluster, and STA stands for state-backed motivation. "The activity demonstrated strategic operational patience and a focus on highly targeted intelligence collection, rather than bulk data theft," security researchers Lior Rochberger and Yoav Zemah said. "The attackers behind this cluster actively searched for and collected highly specific files concerning military capabilities, organizational structures, and collaborative efforts with Western armed forces." The campaign exhibits hallmarks commonly associated with advanced persistent threat (APT) operations, including carefully crafted delivery methods, defense evasion strategies, highly stable operational infrastructure, and custom ...
Hacker leaks 'Orange is the New Black' Season 5 after Netflix refused to Pay Ransom

Hacker leaks 'Orange is the New Black' Season 5 after Netflix refused to Pay Ransom

May 01, 2017
After releasing 10 back-to-back episodes of the Season 5 premiere of Netflix's " Orange Is the New Black ," a hacking group calling itself The Dark Overlord is threatening to leak a trove of other unreleased TV shows and movies. The Dark Overlord (TDO) posted links to the first 10 episodes of the upcoming season of "Orange Is the New Black" show to a piracy website after Larson Studios and Netflix failed to fulfill the group's ransom demand. According to Netflix's website, the season 5 of "Orange Is the New Black" show is scheduled to debut June 9 and supposed to run 13 episodes. But TDO claimed that only the first 10 episodes were available at the time the group gained access to the show. On Saturday, the group headed on to Twitter and posted links to a Pastebin page, GitHub profile, and the Pirate Bay torrent site sharing Episode 1 of "Orange Is The New Black" season 5 show. At the time of writing, the Pastebin ( web arc...
Anonymous Release Press Release for Operation Tarmageddon

Anonymous Release Press Release for Operation Tarmageddon

Sep 02, 2011
Anonymous Release Press Release for Operation Tarmageddon Early in July, Anonymous said it planned to attack oil firms and banks supporting the controversial extraction of oil from sand in Alberta, Canada. Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands, Imperial Oil, and the Royal Bank of Scotland have been put on notice that they are likely to be targeted in Anonymous' latest operation, dubbed Project Tarmageddon. Complete Press Release : Early in July, deep below the radar of the Tar Sands Oil Industry, Anonymous and GreenSec boarded the LulzSub and began a journey of environmental justice. This journey had only one endpoint: success. With all the attention Anonymous recently had received , a sub was the sure choice to ensure maximum impact and minimum damage to the fleet. When Big Brother watches, you go under the surface. All July, we supported a protest against the Tar Sands oil industry, which ended in protesters dancing on the meeting table of the Governor of Montana...
North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

North Korean Hackers Publish 26 npm Packages Hiding Pastebin C2 for Cross-Platform RAT

Mar 02, 2026 Supply Chain Attack / Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new iteration of the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign, where the North Korean threat actors have published a set of 26 malicious packages to the npm registry. The packages masquerade as developer tools, but contain functionality to extract the actual command-and-control (C2) by using seemingly harmless Pastebin content as a dead drop resolver and ultimately drop a developer-targeted credential stealer and remote access trojan. The C2 infrastructure is hosted on Vercel across 31 deployments. The campaign , discovered by Socket and kmsec.uk's Kieran Miyamoto, is being tracked under the moniker StegaBin . It's attributed to a North Korean threat activity cluster known as Famous Chollima. "The loader extracts C2 URLs steganographically encoded within three Pastebin pastes, innocuous computer science essays in which characters at evenly-spaced positions have been replaced to spell out hidden infrastructure addresses," So...
Peru Domains Registrar hacked and 207116 Domain panel credentials leaked

Peru Domains Registrar hacked and 207116 Domain panel credentials leaked

Oct 20, 2012
A huge hack carried out today ! One of the biggest Peru Domain registrar company (punto.pe) hacked by Lulzsecperu (declared by a tweet ) and Complete database of 207116 websites has been leaked on internet.  Leaked database include Domain panel username, encrypted password, Company descriptions. Hacked domains include all .PU domains ie. Banks , Institutes, computer security companies, corporates, colleges, government, personal websites. " We clarify that we have no malicious purposes, only prove that the security of PERU is bad and should be corrected. Greetings to the computer crimes division of the National Police of Peru from March 2012 is nil activity and fail or be close to where we are now ASBANC for trying. " Hacker said in an statement . He upload the database here :  https://anonfiles.com/file/e14504f5033d2a53457af667b686340f Password for file: lulzsecperu 2-3 Hours after  Lulz...
Wormable Gitpaste-12 Botnet Returns to Target Linux Servers, IoT Devices

Wormable Gitpaste-12 Botnet Returns to Target Linux Servers, IoT Devices

Dec 15, 2020
A new wormable botnet that spreads via GitHub and Pastebin to install cryptocurrency miners and backdoors on target systems has returned with expanded capabilities to compromise web applications, IP cameras, and routers. Early last month, researchers from Juniper Threat Labs documented a crypto-mining campaign called " Gitpaste-12 ," which used GitHub to host malicious code containing as many as 12 known attack modules that are executed via commands downloaded from a Pastebin URL. The attacks occurred during a 12-day period starting from October 15, 2020, before both the Pastebin URL and repository were shut down on October 30, 2020. Now according to Juniper, the  second wave of attacks  began on November 10 using payloads from a different GitHub repository, which, among others, contains a Linux crypto-miner ("ls"), a file with a list of passwords for brute-force attempts ("pass"), and a local privilege escalation exploit for x86_64 Linux systems. Th...
Various sites hacked by Fr0664/FCA and users data compromised !

Various sites hacked by Fr0664/FCA and users data compromised !

May 08, 2011
Various sites hacked by Fr0664/FCA and users data compromised ! 1.) igw.edu - Institut fur Gemeindebau unt Weltmission Pwnd by FR0664/FCA May 7th 2011 7425 emails/passwords :  preview : http://pastebin.com/0e5TJCti & full :  https://rapidshare.com/files/461017680/igw.edu.7z 2.) fn-languedocroussillon.com - FRONT NATIONAL - LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON Pwnd by FR0664/FCA May 6th 2011 59 emails/passwords :  http://pastebin.com/9KrNUxHX 3.) alphazone4.com - Your home away from Home Pwnd by Fr0664/FCA May 6th 2011 53 emails/passwords :  http://pastebin.com/Kc3YQz7H 4.)  mindlessgaming.com  - professional esports club Pwnd by Fr0664/FCA May 7th 2011 377 emails/passwords :  http://pastebin.com/v1PPNwv7
Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste - Uncensored

Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste - Uncensored

Apr 20, 2012
Pastebin Censored ! Anonymous launches AnonPaste -  Uncensored Anonymous and the People’s Liberation Front have launched a “totally secure and safe alternative” to Pastebin, the site used by the hacktivist collective to dump data recovered from hacks.  AnonPaste  for people to post uncensored documents and files without compromising their identities. Shared content can be set to expire after 10 minutes, an hour, a day, a month, a year, or never. In addition, the site promises to remain advertising-free and unmoderated, maintain no connection logs, and store only encrypted data. The two groups said AnonPaste offers 256-bit AES encryption at the browser layer. AnonPaste supports a URL shortening feature and allows users to post up to 2MB of text snippets at a time. Users can specify how long they want the text to remain available on the site. AnonPaste , which accepts donations via WePay and BitCoins, was built using the open source ZeroBin software, which doesn...
Siemens and Canon's Databases exploited by Team INTRA

Siemens and Canon's Databases exploited by Team INTRA

Mar 01, 2012
Siemens and Canon 's Databases exploited by Team INTRA Recently a hacker known as " JoinSe7en " from Team INTRA claims to have hacked into subdomains of Canon and Siemens. Apparently, the hacker has found and exploited a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability in Canon's website and a Error based SQL Injection in Siemens. He published a full disclosure on both of the databases on pastebin: Siemens : http://pastebin.com/HBL966wh Canon : http://pastebin.com/fbL0s9aS These pastebin notes include the vulnerable links of respective sites and extracted database info with usernames and passwords of Siemens Users & Canon forum, sites user credentials.
LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Config

LimeRAT Malware Analysis: Extracting the Config

Apr 27, 2023 Malware Analysis / Cyber Threat
Remote Access Trojans (RATs) have taken the third leading position in ANY. RUN's  Q1 2023 report  on the most prevalent malware types, making it highly probable that your organization may face this threat. Though LimeRAT might not be the most well-known RAT family, its versatility is what sets it apart. Capable of carrying out a broad spectrum of malicious activities, it excels not only in data exfiltration, but also in creating DDoS botnets and facilitating crypto mining. Its compact footprint allows it to elude endpoint detection systems, making it a stealthy adversary. Interestingly, LimeRAT shares similarities with njRAT, which ANY.RUN ranks as the third most popular malware family in terms of uploads during Q1 2023. ANY.RUN researchers have recently conducted an in-depth analysis of a LimeRAT sample and successfully extracted its configuration. In this article, we'll provide a brief overview of that analysis. Collected artifacts SHA1 14836dd608efb4a0c552a4f370...
Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

Anonymous Hackers Launch #OpUSA against US Banking and Government Agencies

May 08, 2013
#OpUSA campaign is officially started, the day has come, today May 7 as announced by Anonymous , a coordinated online attack will hit Banking and government websites. The announcement made by popular group of hacktivists is creating great concerns between US security experts in charge of defense the potential targets. The message passed sent by Anonymous to US authorities is eloquent, “ We Will Wipe You Off the Cyber Map ”  A new wave of attacks, presumably distributed-denial-of-service attack , is expected to hit principal US financial institutions exactly as already happened in the last months. The hacktivists participating to OpUSA campaign protest against the policy of the US Government blamed to have committed war crimes in foreign states and in its countries. "A nonymous will make sure that's this May 7 will be a day to remember. On that day anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afg...
Borlas.net 14800 Users logins, phone number & Emails Leaked by Division Crew

Borlas.net 14800 Users logins, phone number & Emails Leaked by Division Crew

Aug 28, 2011
Borlas.net 14800 Users logins, phone number & Emails Leaked by Division Crew  Division Hackers Crew hack the Database of Borlas.net (Free SMS Site) . Hackers leak the usernames, Passwords, emails and phone numbers of 14800 registered users. Leaked database posted on pastenbin : Part 1: http://pastebin.com/FiKMehCj Part 2: http://pastebin.com/fDKi2iJG Part 3: http://pastebin.com/4z6SjB7p
Sony Ericsson Got Hacked by Idahc - Lebanese hacker

Sony Ericsson Got Hacked by Idahc - Lebanese hacker

May 24, 2011
Sony Ericsson  Got Hacked by Idahc - Lebanese hacker  ! Again, DAMN ... Whats Going on with Sony ?.. Idahc , A Lebanese hacker hack The database of ca.eshop.sonyericsson.com with a simple sql injection. Two attacks on Sony in one day. Today's Morning  LulzSec Leak Sony's Japanese websites Database  and Now Sony Ericsson's Eshop Database Hacked. Email, Password and names of 1000's of users are exposed via text file on pastebin. The news is provided by Hacker via email that they have extract the whole database and they leak the data online via their Facebook/Twitter Accounts. The Pastebin link is  http://pastebin.com/4YGAWxQZ  .  Now Its 10th Attack on Sony . Well Sony getting Free of cost Auditing by several hackers ,I think sony should be the most secure brand in future because their security holes out, and Now its Sony's Duty to Fix them as soon as possible.  Even Now every hacker is trying to hack various Sony's sites just to g...
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