Avengers: Endgame Leaked Online in China

4/26/2019 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Marvel’s latest and perhaps the most anticipated movie ever to be released Avengers: End Game has become an object of controversy lately as hackers and <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime">cybercriminals</a> are trying their best to benefit from the movie’s widespread, intense hype.<br />
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Last week, Marvel fans were requested to not use social media after a video made via mobile phone containing movie spoilers was posted online. Now that the movie has been released in China and just a day is left in its US release, reports are rife that a camera version of the movie has been uploaded on various torrent platforms and piracy sites.<br />
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TorrentFreak reveals that copy of Avengers: End Game has been recorded from a cinema in China and initially it exclusively appeared on Chinese torrent sites. It is interesting because the movie’s sponsors and producers chose to release it in China first and it is yet to be released in the US.<br />
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Reportedly, this decision was taken to address the issue of piracy in the region. The movie has so far raked in $90 million in sales, that’s an impressive start for sure but the inevitable has happened as someone was able to record the movie in the cinema and upload it online.<br />
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According to the analysis from <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/avengers-endgame-leaks-online-in-china-begins-to-spread-190424/">TorrentFreak</a>, their system notified about the appearance of a 1.2 GB cammed version of Avengers: End Game between 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm China local time, that’s merely a few hours after the movie was released in China.<br />
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As soon as the movie was released online, dozens of users located in <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Chinese%20Hackers">China</a> started sharing it on torrent sites. Then came the 2 GB version of the movie and new copies are also emerging at regular intervals. The initial versions were basically different variants of the first torrent shared on Thunder torrent site; it became evident because all the new variants had the same client code starting from 7.10.35.XXX.<br />
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The good news is that the pirated version circulating on torrent sites is of pretty bad quality as the movie continuously flickers, is semi-rotated and there are watermarks of a gambling site visible throughout. TorrentFreak also noted that the pirated version has made it to piracy sites in the UK as well.<br />
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It is worth mentioning that the initial version of the movie’s copy was dubbed in Chinese but later another version with English audio and Chinese subtitles was released online. Moreover, an improved version of the movie has also been released that has been sponsored by a <a href="https://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers">russian</a> betting company 1XBet.<br />
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Avengers: End Game is touted as the final and conclusive chapter of the franchise. So far 22 films have been released since 2008 under the Marvel Cinematic Universe banner. The makers have tried their best to keep the movie’s storyline a secret, so much so that even the journalists weren’t allowed to watch the movie prior to interviewing its star cast. </div>

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Russia Linked hacking group Sofacy APT attacking European Government Agencies

3/19/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Last week the US Government announced sanctions against five Russian entities and 19 individuals, including the FSB, the military intelligence agency GRU.<br />
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Despite the sanctions, <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers">Russian hackers</a> continue to target entities worldwide, including US organizations.<br />
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The Russian spy agencies and the individuals are accused of trying to influence the 2016 presidential election and launching massive <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/02/russian-military-involved-in-notpetya.html">NotPetya </a>ransomware campaign and other attacks on businesses in the energy industry.<br />
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Last year, the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a joint technical alert to warn of attacks on US critical infrastructure powered by Russian threat actors. The US-CERT blamed the APT group tracked as <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/dragonfly">Dragonfly</a>, <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/crouching%20yeti">Crouching Yeti</a>, and <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/energetic%20bear">Energetic Bear</a>.<br />
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Now the US-CERT updated its <a href="https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A">alert </a>by providing further info that and officially linking the above APT groups to the Kremlin.<br />
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The Alert (<a href="https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA18-074A">TA18-074A</a>) warns of “Russian Government Cyber Activity Targeting Energy and Other Critical Infrastructure Sectors,” it label the attackers as “Russian government cyber actors.”<br />
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“This alert provides information on Russian government actions targeting U.S. Government entities as well as organizations in the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors.” reads the alert. </blockquote>
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“It also contains indicators of compromise (IOCs) and technical details on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by Russian government cyber actors on compromised victim networks.” </blockquote>
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According to the DHS, based on the analysis of indicators of compromise, the Dragonfly threat actor is still very active and its attacks are ongoing.<br />
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“DHS and FBI characterize this activity as a multi-stage intrusion campaign by Russian government cyber actors who targeted small commercial facilities’ networks where they staged malware, conducted spear phishing, and gained remote access into energy sector networks.” continues the alert. “After obtaining access, the Russian government cyber actors conducted network reconnaissance, moved laterally, and collected information pertaining to Industrial Control Systems (ICS).”<br />
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The Russian Government has always denied the accusations, in June 2017 Russian President Putin declared that patriotic hackers may have powered attacks against foreign countries and denied the involvement of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Military">Russian cyberspies</a>.<br />
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A few days ago, cyber security experts at Palo Alto Networks uncovered hacking campaigns launched by Sofacy against an unnamed European government agency leveraging an updated variant of the DealersChoice tool.<br />
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“On March 12 and March 14, we observed the Sofacy group carrying out an attack on a European government agency involving an updated variant of DealersChoice.” reads the <a href="https://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2018/03/unit42-sofacy-uses-dealerschoice-target-european-government-agency/">analysis </a>published by PaloAlto Networks.</blockquote>
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“The updated DealersChoice documents used a similar process to obtain a malicious Flash object from a C2 server, but the inner mechanics of the Flash object contained significant differences in comparison to the original samples we analyzed. One of the differences was a particularly clever evasion technique.”<br />
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The attacks uncovered by PaloAlto aimed at a government organization in Europe used a spear phishing email referencing the “Underwater Defence & Security” conference, which will take place in the U.K. later this month.<br />
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While previous versions of DealersChoice loaded a <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares">malicious </a>Flash object as soon as the bait document was opened, the samples analyzed by PaloAlto that were related to the last attacks include the Flash object on page three of the document and it’s only loaded if users scroll down to it.<br />
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“The user may not notice the Flash object on the page, as Word displays it as a tiny black box in the document, as seen in Figure 1. This is an interesting anti-sandbox technique, as it requires human interaction prior to the document exhibiting any malicious activity.” states the analysis.</div>

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Credit Card numbers worth $3.6 million out on Sale

2/27/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Russian computer hackers operating in Colorado and 15 other states used data-mining <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">viruses </a>to steal thousands of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Credit%20Card" target="_blank">credit card</a> numbers from U.S. residents in 20 states and sold them on the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Darknet" target="_blank">darknet </a>for more than $3.6 million, according to federal court documents.<br />
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As part of the wide-scale criminal operation, so-called “<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Carding" target="_blank">carders</a>” from Russia advertised and sold the numbers to Ukrainian operatives using the <b>Rescator network of websites</b> — named for a Ukranian hacker who specializes in the sale of stolen credit cards.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian thieves</a> instructed clandestine organizations to pay for batches of stolen credit card numbers using <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/02/western-union-money-transfer-hacked.html" target="_blank">Western Union</a> and <b>MoneyGram</b> International, according to documents filed by federal prosecutors in Denver U.S. District Court.<br />
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The documents did not indicate whether anyone has been arrested in connection to the scheme. Agents from the Department of Homeland Security based in Colorado uncovered the operation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado filed forfeiture claims Friday against two Colorado bank accounts, the documents reveal.<br />
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Criminals use software to access hidden websites and blogs on the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Darknet" target="_blank"><b>darknet </b></a>so they can operate <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Anonymous" target="_blank">anonymously</a>. As part of their investigation, Homeland Security agents made undercover purchases of batches of stolen credit cards. <br />
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A web of conspirators in Colorado and 15 other states funneled money back to accounts set up in the Russian Federation.<br />
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<b>MoneyGram </b>officials contacted Homeland Security agents in November of 2014 and notified them of <b>137 wire transfers totaling $170,000</b>. The agents determined in March of 2016 that conspirators wired money to payees in the Ukraine, the documents indicate. In 2015 and 2016, conspirators allegedly sent <b>3,997 wires totaling $3,598,160</b>, records indicate.</div>

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Winter olympics was not Hacked by North Korea but Russian Military

2/26/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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We already knew that the opening ceremony of the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2018/02/winter-olympics-website-hacked.html" target="_blank">Winter Olympics</a> in Pyeongchang, South Korea was hit by a cyberattack. Now it appears we know the culprit: Russian military spies.<br />
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<a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Military" target="_blank">Russian military spies</a> hacked hundreds of computers used by Winter Olympics organizers and tried to make it look like the work of North Korea, the Washington Post reported Sunday, quoting US intelligence sources.<br />
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South Korea had previously announced that it was investigating the failure of several Olympic-linked internet sites and broadcast systems just as the opening ceremonies were taking place on February 9.<br />
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The Post reported that Russia's GRU military intelligence agency managed to take control in early February of 300 computers linked to the Olympic organization. As a result, many attendees were unable to print their tickets for the ceremony, leaving empty seats.<br />
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It said the Russians had hacked South Korean computer routers and inserted a form of "malware" that allowed them to gather data and paralyze the network. <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">The Russians</a> used a North Korean internet provider to make it appear the attack originated in North Korea, in what is known as a "false flag" operation, the Post said.<br />
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While American officials quoted in the article were unable to say whether the hackers had activated the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malware</a>, they said the cyber attack against the Games -- from which Russia's team was excluded for doping -- was worrisome. <br />
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Some analysts believe the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">cyber attack</a> was retribution for that ban. Some Russian athletes were allowed to compete, but only under the designation of "Olympic Athletes from Russia." <br />
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The Winter Games saw dramatic gestures aimed at easing the raw tensions dividing the two Koreas, as both countries' athletes marched together during the opening ceremonies, and they fielded a single women's ice hockey team. <br />
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The sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un made several high-profile appearances in the early days of the Games, and a large squad of North Korean cheerleaders drew intense interest.  <br />
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Finally, at the Games' closing ceremony Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean General Kim Yong Chol -- a man considered a "<b>war criminal</b>" by many in the South for his role in two deadly attacks on Southern targets -- exchanged a very public handshake.</div>

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Russian military involved in NotPetya attacks: UK

2/16/2018 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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The UK government has officially accused the Russian government of June's disruptive and hugely costly NotPetya malware attack.</div>
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"The UK Government judges that the Russian government, specifically the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Millitary">Russian military</a>, was responsible for the destructive NotPetya cyber-attack of June 2017," Foreign Office minister for Cyber Security, Tariq Ahmad, said in a statement.</div>
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"The attack showed a continued disregard for Ukrainian sovereignty. Its reckless release disrupted organizations across Europe, costing hundreds of millions of pounds."</div>
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Initially, NotPetya was thought to be <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Ransomeware">ransomware</a>, but security researchers quickly concluded it was more likely to be destructive <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares">malware</a> designed to wipe systems.</div>
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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) today revealed it came to the same conclusion, noting that the malware was only masquerading as ransomware and its main purpose was to disrupt.</div>
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The NCSC said the Russian military was "almost certainly responsible" for the NotPetya attack.</div>
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Shipping container firm Maersk, FedEx's Dutch delivery subsidiary TNT Express, and UK firm Reckitt Benckiser were among global firms that suffered severe disruptions and several hundred million dollars in lost revenue. However, the <b>firms</b>, however, <b>were collateral damage in the ongoing conflict between Ukraine and Russia</b>.</div>
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<b>NotPetya employed the NSA <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Exploits">exploits </a>for Windows known as EternalBlue and EternalRomance</b> as well as credential-dumping tools to spread internally across networks once one machine was infected. The exploits were leaked in April by The Shadow Brokers.</div>
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The malware<b> initially infected organizations via a compromised update from Ukraine</b> accounting software provider MEDoc. Its MEDoc software is one of two accounting packages required for companies doing business in Ukraine and is widely used by Ukraine agencies.</div>
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Maersk, which used MEDoc at its Ukraine offices, recently revealed it was forced to reinstall 45,000 PCs, 4,000 servers and 2,000 applications hit by NotPetya. The company reported losses of $300m due to the incident.</div>
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NCSC notes that Ukraine's financial, energy and government institutions bore the brunt of NotPetya. However, the "indiscriminate design" of the malware caused it to spread to other European and Russian businesses.</div>
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Though it is unusual to officially blame another nation for a cyber attack, the US and Five-Eye partners blamed the WannaCry ransomware attack on North Korea. The idea, in part at least, is to name and shame nation-state attackers for their actions.</div>
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<b>Russia and North Korea have consistently denied responsibility for the NotPetya, WannaCry, and other cyber attacks.</b></div>
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The UK's Ahmad said the Kremlin has positioned Russia in direct opposition to the West.</div>
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"It doesn't have to be that way. We call upon Russia to be the responsible member of the international community it claims to be rather than secretly trying to undermine it," he said.</div>
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"The United Kingdom is identifying, pursuing and responding to malicious cyber activity regardless of where it originates, imposing costs on those who would seek to do us harm."</div>
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Zero-day vulnerability found in Telegram

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Research conducted by Kaspersky showed that the zero-day flaw was based on the <a href="https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/202e/index.htm" target="_blank">RLO </a>(right-to-left override) Unicode method, which is generally used for coding languages written from right to left, such as Arabic and Hebrew. However, it can also be used by hackers to dupe unknowing recipients into downloading malware, for example disguised as images.<br />
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Kaspersky analysts identified “several scenarios of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Zero-Day" target="_blank">zero-day</a> exploitation in the wild by threat actors.” The threats identified were two-fold. First, the exploit was used to deliver mining software, allowing hackers to use the victim’s machine to mine <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/CryptoCurrency" target="_blank">cryptocurrency </a>including “Monero, Zcash, Fantomcoin and others.”<br />
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Second, a backdoor was installed allowing <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Cyber%20Crime" target="_blank">cybercriminals </a>to gain remote access to the victim’s computer after which it started to “operate in a silent mode,” allowing “the threat actor to remain unnoticed in the network and execute different commands, including the further installation of spyware tools.”<br />
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Kaspersky says its analysis suggests the cybercriminals are of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian </a>origin, and the company has offered some tips to protect your PC against attack.  These include not downloading and opening unknown files from untrusted sources, avoiding sharing sensitive personal information in messenger apps and making sure to have reliable antivirus software installed on your machine.<br />
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It appears that only Russian cybercriminals were aware of this <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerability</a>, with all the exploitation cases that we detected occurring in Russia. Also, while conducting a detailed research of these attacks we discovered a lot of artifacts that pointed to involvement by Russian cybercriminals.</div>

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Russian Intelligence and Spy Company SearchInform Hacked, Data Leaked

3/13/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Today Russian hacktivist <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg" target="_blank">@Rucyborg</a> has announced a leak of data from Searchinform and sent a message out to its director.<br />
The leak was <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg/status/443468396068610050" target="_blank">announced</a> a couple of hours ago via twitter and posted to <a href="http://cyberguerrilla.org/" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla.org</a> with a message which states that the hackers have had access to <a href="http://searchinform.ru/" target="_blank">searchinform.ru</a> since as far back as 2012 and that they have infected  download links. The leak was uploaded to <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18L8Z/dICvHg/sinformru.rar" target="_blank">bayfiles</a> and is part 2 of an <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/2014/03/cyber-attacks-on-ukraine.html" target="_blank">on going assault on Russia</a> in relation to the recent drama that putin has been creating.<br />
<a href="http://searchinform.com/about/full-text-search-company.html" target="_blank">Searchinform</a> is one of them sneaky company’s with an even more sneaky product which allows snooping on others, while in this day and age is not so surprising but the extent which they do go to is pretty extensive and really does pose a huge security risk to one if the wrong person was to be using it. They offer work time monitors, full-on network sniffers designed at modern day communications over social medias, microphone sniffers for recording employees and a <a href="http://searchinform.com/main/full-text-search-information-security-product.html" target="_blank">whole range of other products</a>.<br />
Data leaked is in a 382MB compressed file that contains well over 3000 files which include instructions and usage information, also it appears to have copies of searchinform for clients and basic new client setup information. In normal fashion there has been a <a href="http://searchinform.com/main/full-text-search-information-security-product.html" target="_blank">imgur gallery</a> created with a preview of the contents of this leak which can be found below, i have also added a couple of screen shots of the contents of the uncompressed leak data.<br />
The message on  <a href="http://cyberguerrilla.org/" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla.org</a> also has a direct message for the CEO of SearchInform.<br />
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Our message to SearchInform.ru – director Ozhegov – you are a bunch of FSB bastadz – leaking information to all the counterparts and outsiders – you provide so called CONTUR of Security to main russian corps – and keep control of all the clients for the SORM needs – nonight – the stars – revolt- and this is your downfall.<br />
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Russia attacks Ukraine with cyber weapon, Snake

3/09/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Dozens of computer networks in Ukraine have been infected by an aggressive new cyber weapon called <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Snake" target="_blank">Snake</a>, according to expert analysis.<br />
 The cyber weapon has been increasingly used since the start of this year, even before protests that led to the overthrow of president Viktor Yanukovych, British-based <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BAE Systems</a> said in a report published Friday.<br />
 The complex composition of <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Snake" target="_blank">Snake</a> bears similarities with <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Stuxnet" target="_blank">Stuxnet</a>, the <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Malwares" target="_blank">malware</a> that disrupted Iran's nuclear facilities in 2010.<br />
Snake—also known as Ouroboros after the serpent in Greek mythology—gives remote attackers "full remote access to the compromised system", BAE said.<br />
Because it can stay inactive for a number of days, it is extremely hard to detect.
Although its origins are unclear, its developers appear to operate it in the same timezone as Moscow—GMT plus four hours—and some <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Russian%20Hackers" target="_blank">Russian</a> text is embedded into the code, BAE says.
BAE has identified 14 cases of Snake in Ukraine since the start of 2014, compared to eight cases in the whole of 2013. In all there have been 32 reported cases in <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Ukraine" target="_blank">Ukraine</a> since 2010, out of 56 worldwide.<br />
 Nigel Inkster, who until 2006 was the head of operations and intelligence at Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency, said Russia was most likely behind the cyber-attacks on Ukraine.<br />
"If you look at it in probabilistic terms... then the list of suspects boils down to one, he told the Financial Times.
"Until recently the Russians have kept a low profile, but there's no doubt in my mind that they can do the full scope of cyber attacks, from denial of service to the very, very sophisticated."</div>

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Russian Defence Hacked, 500+MB Data Leaked

3/06/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Today Russian hacktivist <a href="https://twitter.com/Rucyborg" target="_blank">Rucyborg</a> has announced a big leak of files from Russian Defence Export ROSOBORONEXPORT (<a href="http://www.roe.ru/" target="_blank">http://www.roe.ru/</a>).<br />
The leak was announced just a short time ago from twitter and has been posted to <a href="https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/?p=17581" target="_blank">cyberguerrilla</a>. The leaked files are just the first part of a few to come from the Russian government.<br />
The attacks have been carried out due to the recent drama Putin is causing and the Russian hackers have stated they do not want any war all they want to do is expose Putin and his government for what they are.<br />
they have also stated that leaks from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi" target="_blank">Sukhoi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oboronprom" target="_blank">Oboronprom</a>, <a href="http://eng.gazflot.ru/" target="_blank">Gazflot</a>, <a href="http://eng.gazflot.ru/" target="_blank">Rusal</a> and others.<br />
The leaked data has been uploaded to <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18nWT/NHiWky/rusarms.rar" target="_blank">bayfiles</a> as a 488MB rar file and a <a href="http://bayfiles.net/file/18nWT/NHiWky/rusarms.rar">preview</a> of the leaked documents has also been provided.<br />
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Today Russian hacktivist Rucyborg has announced a big leak of files from Russian Defence Export ROSOBORONEXPORT ( http://www.roe.ru/ )...

Bitcoin Bank Hacked, Theft of $6,20,000

3/04/2014 The Hackers Chronicle 0

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Flexcoin, famous for making <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Bitcoin" target="_blank">bitcoin</a> banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after hackers stole 896 bitcoins (nearly $620,000) from its vault on Sunday. And the most unsettling thing? That wasn't even the only bitcoin heist last weekend.<br />
To <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Flexcoin" target="_blank">Flexcoin's</a> credit, it wasn't completely cleaned out by hackers. Hackers did clean out Flexcoin's hot wallet, but an undisclosed number of bitcoins in cold storage were untouched. "Cold storage" simply means that the bitcoins were kept in computers <a href="https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Cold_storage" target="_blank">not connected to the internet</a>, an extra level of security for which customers pay an extra 0.5 percent. Flexcoin will give those bitcoins back to customers. Those whose bitcoins were stolen are, well, they're shit out of luck because bitcoins aren't insured like good ol' greenbacks are in most banks.<br />
If this sounds like a familiar story, that's because it is. On Tuesday, another bitcoin firm called <a href="https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=499580" target="_blank">Polonix</a> also admitted that hackers broke in and stole 12.5 percent of its reserves, though it plans on replenishing the lost 'coin itself. And who could forget the infamous implosion of Mt.Gox, the Japan-based bitcoin exchange that filed for bankruptcy last week and announced that $424 million worth of cryptocurrency was lost and gone forever. Those just a couple of the major heists and boondoggles on a growing list of heists and boondoggles.<br />
But what do you expect. The burgeoning bitcoin industry is famously unstable and <a href="http://www.hackerschronicle.com/search/label/Vulnerability" target="_blank">vulnerable</a>. Sure, it's an exciting idea for the sake of liberty and anarchy and whatever! It's just not the safest way to store your money right now, is all.</div>

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Flexcoin, famous for making bitcoin banking as easy as regular banking, is no more. The company shut its doors on Tuesday morning after...