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Security Bytes – August 2013

By

Pranav (sh3rl0ck@null.co.in)

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Godzilla Strikes !!!

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• Pakistan Army and Facebook pages compromised by Indian Hacker

Godzilla.

• Uses a CMS vulnerability and got access.

• Then uploaded a malicious PDF magazine in their CMS which later clicked

by the site admin and installed a piece of malware in admin's computer.

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Godzilla Strikes !!!

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Playstation hacker “neuron” got 1 year sentence

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Playstation hacker “neuron” got 1 year sentence

• Raynaldo Rivera a.k.a neuron had been sentences to 1 year in prison 13

months of house arrest and 1000 hours of community services.

• For hacking into Sony Pictures Entertainment.

• Attack on Sony revealed data belonging to 1,38,000 customers.

• Attackers distributed the data over the Internet.

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Pirate Bay Releases its own Browser on its 10th Anniversary

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Pirate Browser

• A custom Firefox Browser that skirts Internet censorship and lets you access the

Pirate Bay from anywhere.

• Uses customised Firefox 23, Tor client and some specialized proxy settings.

• Wont make you anonymous over the internet.

• Just a simple mechanism to maintain access to the entire, uncensored internet.

• No adware, toolbars or other crap.

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MindCracker hit our Railways

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• Pakistani Hacker "MindCracker" from Pakistan Cyber Army hacked

into Indian Eastern Railways website.

• Other members of the Cracking Team were Shadow008, KhantastiC,

Darksnipper, H4x0rL1f3, Invectus

• Immediately Restored by the admin

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MindCracker hit our Railways

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Pak Hacker hacks 100s of Israeli sites

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• Thousands of Israeli websites are hacked by the Pakistani hackers, in

support for the Palestine people.

• Hacker behind the massive attack mentioned his online name as "H4x0r

HuSsY" and the message says " LONG LIVE PALESTINE - PAKISTAN ZINDABAD

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO & FROM TEAM MADLEETS"

• Hacked websites belong to Semi-Government, Personal and Israeli

Corporates.

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Pak Hacker hacks 100s of Israeli sites

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Vulnerability in USB Modems

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• Indian Security Researcher 'Rahul Sasi' found a new Innovative critical flaw in

these USB internet Modems that allows an attacker to execute malicious code

remotely, just via sending a SMS.

• Vulnerability allows to hack computers remotely to gain the meterpreter shell or

full access to victim's PC.

• The vulnerability is in the Dialer Software supplied with the USB Modems.

• Flaw also can be used to DDOS all the USB modems.

• All local Indian vendors of USB Internet Modems are also vulnerable to this attack.

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Vulnerability in USB Modems

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The Hackers Conference 2013

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• Special Session against Internet Censorship in India

• Android into a Spy Bug

• Breaching SSL security in 30 seconds.

• Mobile Security Testing tools.

• Digital Forensics of We Chat like suspicious apps.

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The Hackers Conference 2013

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Google Palestine Hacked & Defaced

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• Hackers from Palestine hacked into Google's Palestine

domain(http://google.ps) and defaced it.

• It appears as the hacker forwarded/redirected the DNS to a new page.

• The virtual names of the hackers behind the hac are : "Cold z3ro -

Haml3t - Sas- Dr@g" from Palestine.

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Google Palestine Hacked & Defaced

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China Hit by Massive DDOS Attack

• China's Internet was taken by a powerful DDOS attack on .cn domain ,blocked Internet access for hours.

• Largest DDOS attack the country ever faced.

• The China Internet Network Information

Center (CINIC) confirmed the attack.

• CINIC is responsible for registering sites in the .cn domain.

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Garage4Hackers Forum Got hacked & Defaced

• Garage4Hackers(G4H) is an open security community for Information Security enthusiasts, gurus and aspirants.

• This hack was done by the hackers group know as "The Belegit Network".

• The hackers have not mention any reason for hacking nor the message to the forum admin. Simply posted a dancing cat on the deface page. This show is that nothing is secure.

• http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fcache.nevkontakte.com%2Fproxy.html#go=http://garage4hackers.com/

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Garage4Hackers Forum Got hacked & Defaced

Sources :

• www.thehackernews.com

• www.ehackingnews.com

• www.news.cnet.com/security/

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