1295 Bitcoins stolen by hackers by breaking into BIPS

A group of hackers cracked Denmark BIPS accounts and stole 1,295 Bitcoins – more than a million dollars in equal. An incident outraged many of Bitcoins owners; they blamed BIPS’ leadership of carelessness and frivolity.

One of suffers who said he’s lost 90 bitcoins has created an online forum to let others sign up for possible legal action against BIPS.

The website made a statement that “BIPS will temporarily close down the wallet initiative to focus on real-time merchant processing business which does not include storing of Bitcoins”.

BIPS founder and CEO Kris Henrikson explained the situation at bitcointalk.org forums.
“On Nov. 15th BIPS was the target of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, which is now believed to have been the initial preparation for a subsequent attack on Nov. 17th that overloaded our managed switches and disconnected the iSCSI connection to the SAN on BIPS servers”.

“Regrettably, despite several layers of protection, the attack caused vulnerability to the system, which has then enabled the attacker/s to gain access and compromise several wallets.” – he added.

Affected individuals will be contacted – no matter how many Bitcoins were stored in their wallets – and merchants will be contacted too if automatic conversion of Bitcoin was not enabled, – Henrikson reassured Bit users.

It is third big theft for this month. Another $1.4 million concerned an online wallet service known as Inputs.io. And $4 million stolen from Chinese exchange.

FBI used Anonymous to attack foreign government systems, claims jailed hacker Hammond

Sentencing for former LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known as "Sabu" , has again been delayed. Monsegur pleaded guilty to a dozen criminal counts two years prior and stands to face more a maximum sentence of more than 124 years.

Another Lulzsec Hacker Jeremy Hammond has claimed that the FBI used Sabu to coordinate attacks against foreign governments, by Anonymous hackers and Others.

The delays indicate that the FBI is not extracting information from Monsegur and this could mean that the hacker may be helping FBI with other covert operations as Jeremy Hammond claims.

Jeremy Hammond, released a statement on Thursday accusing the US government of asking Monsegur to encourage fellow hacktivists to infiltrate foreign government entities.

“What many do not know is that Sabu was also used by his handlers to facilitate the hacking of the targets of the government’s choosing including numerous websites belonging to foreign governments”, Hammond said.

“What the United States could not accomplish legally, it used Sabu, and by extension, me and my co-defendants, to accomplish illegally”, Hammond added.

"Why was the US using us to infiltrate the private networks of foreign governments? What are they doing with the information we stole? And will anyone in our government ever be held accountable for these crimes?"

Hammond pleaded guilty in May to hacking private intelligence firm Stratfor to expose millions of revelatory emails. The Illinois native faces up to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced, scheduled for 15th November.

Afghan Cyber Army (ACA) hacked multiple Pakistan Government websites

Earlier today that Indian hackers have breached Pakistan Minsitry of Education website- The hack was payback to the Goa government site hack.

Now, another a hacker group from Afghanistan called "Afghan Cyber Army" has break into the multiple Pakistan Government websites and left them defaced.

The hacked website includes District Government of LARKANA(larkana.gov.pk), District Government Hyderabad(hyderabad.gov.pk), SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD(www.benazirabad.gov.pk) and Government of Sindh(www.home.gos.pk).


         One of the Defaced Page

"Hacked By Afghan Cyber Army.  Feel The Power of Afghanistan. We are :Afghan Haxor" The defacement message reads.

"Pray for all the innocent victims of Kabul attack this is a small answer From All Afghans Remember We are the new generation of Afghanistan and we are not stupid"

The group have also reportedly hacked into National Disaster Management Authority (ndma.gov.pk), shpd.gov.pk and have deleted the database. - See more at: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/07/afghan-cyber-army-deface-pakistan.html#sthash.xPoEIpdx.dpuf

earlier today that Indian hackers have breached Pakistan Minsitry of Education website- The hack was payback to the Goa government site hack.

Now, another a hacker group from Afghanistan called "Afghan Cyber ARmy" has break into the multiple Pakistan Government websites and left them defaced.

The hacked website includes District Government of LARKANA(larkana.gov.pk), District Government Hyderabad(hyderabad.gov.pk), SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD(www.benazirabad.gov.pk) and Government of Sindh(www.home.gos.pk).

One of the Defaced Page - E Hacking News Report

"Hacked By Afghan Cyber Army.  Feel The Power of Afghanistan. We are :Afghan Haxor" The defacement message reads.

"Pray for all the innocent victims of Kabul attack this is a small answer From All Afghans Remember We are the new generation of Afghanistan and we are not stupid"

The group have also reportedly hacked into National Disaster Management Authority (ndma.gov.pk), shpd.gov.pk and have deleted the database. - See more at: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/07/afghan-cyber-army-deface-pakistan.html#sthash.xPoEIpdx.dpuf

earlier today that Indian hackers have breached Pakistan Minsitry of Education website- The hack was payback to the Goa government site hack.

Now, another a hacker group from Afghanistan called "Afghan Cyber ARmy" has break into the multiple Pakistan Government websites and left them defaced.

The hacked website includes District Government of LARKANA(larkana.gov.pk), District Government Hyderabad(hyderabad.gov.pk), SHAHEED BENAZIRABAD(www.benazirabad.gov.pk) and Government of Sindh(www.home.gos.pk).

One of the Defaced Page - E Hacking News Report

"Hacked By Afghan Cyber Army.  Feel The Power of Afghanistan. We are :Afghan Haxor" The defacement message reads.

"Pray for all the innocent victims of Kabul attack this is a small answer From All Afghans Remember We are the new generation of Afghanistan and we are not stupid"

The group have also reportedly hacked into National Disaster Management Authority (ndma.gov.pk), shpd.gov.pk and have deleted the database. - See more at: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/07/afghan-cyber-army-deface-pakistan.html#sthash.xPoEIpdx.dpuf

Cybercriminals capture Images of people watching porn to trick them to pay ransom

A New Ransomware that poses as Australian Federal Police attempts to turn on the webcams of people watching porn and captures images of them.

Once the image of the user is captured, the malware locks the desktop and shows a warning message saying that "they have breached federal laws relating to child pornography, copyright or privacy".

The warning message includes the image of the victim. This will certainly horrify the victims.

According to WAToday report, the victims are then told to pay a ransom of $100 to $199 within 72 hours. The malware claims that if they failed to, the data in their disk will be wiped.

''We've taken some very interesting calls; some people are very open, while others swear they have been hacked while using Facebook" The WAToday quoted AFP as saying.

Biggest bank robbery in history, Hackers stole $45 million

In one of the biggest bank robberies in history, a global network of hackers seems to have stolen 45 million dollars (34 million euros) in two banks from the Middle East after they violated the security of a business’ credit card processing and withdrawal of money at ATMs in 27 countries, prosecutors said Thursday in the United States.
The Department of Justice charged eight men who allegedly formed a cell of the organization based in New York, and said that seven of them had been arrested. The eighth, supposedly the leader of the cell, was killed in Dominican Republic on April 27.
It is believed that the leaders of the network are outside the United States, but prosecutors declined to elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation. What is clear is the wide range and speed of the crimes: in one of the attacks, in only 10 hours, $ 40 million were withdrawn from ATMs in 24 countries in 36,000 transactions.
“Instead of guns and masks, this organization used computers and Internet cybercrime,” said Loretta Lunch, the Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in a press conference. “Moving as fast as the data on the Internet, the organization made its way from the computer systems of corporations to the streets of New York,” she added.
The case demonstrates the great threat that cybercrime poses worldwide. It also shows how criminal gangs have become increasingly international and sophisticated, especially those who use the Internet.
Prosecutors highlighted the “surgeon precision” used by the hackers and the global nature of its organization, coordination and speed with which the operations were executed in 27 countries. According to the people in charge of the case, the band broke the computers security of two companies that process credit cards, one in India in December 2012 and another in the United States in February.
The companies were not identified. Hackers increased the balance available and the cash withdrawal limit on prepaid Mastercard credit cards issued by Bank of Muscat in Oman and National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah PSC (RAKBANK) UAE.
The hackers then distributed counterfeit credit cards to people in charge of taking cash worldwide, allowing them to take millions of dollars from ATMs in a few hours. In New York, for example, members of the cell were distributed around town in the afternoon of February 19, armed with cards that have a unique account number from Bank of Muscat.
Ten hours later, 2,904 had completed money orders for $ 2.4 million, the final transaction occurred at about 1:26 am prosecutors said. The teams that withdrew money in other countries were busy doing the same, taking about 40 million from the Bank of Muscat, in addition to the $ 5 million that they stole from RAKBANK in December.
In total, 40,500 withdrawals were conducted in 27 countries during the two incidents. Prosecutors said the method of attack is called “unlimited operations” in the digital underworld. It was not possible to contact representatives of the two banks for comment outside regular business hours.
In a statement, MasterCard said it had cooperated with law enforcement agencies during the investigation and stressed that their systems were not involved or engaged in the attacks. In February,  Bank Muscat revealed it would receive a fee of up to $ 39 million because it had been defrauded overseas with 12 prepaid debit cards used for travel.
An investigation is ongoing to determine if there are other cells operating in the country, said Lynch, adding that law enforcement agencies in the United States have worked with their counterparts in Japan, Canada, Germany, Romania, United Arab Emirates, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Italy, Spain, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Latvia, Estonia, Thailand and Malaysia to learn more about the  network that carried out the withdrawals. According to authorities, there were no personal bank accounts involved in the heist.

Cooperative development authority of Philippines website Defaced

The official website belongs to the Cooperative development authority of Philippines has been attacked by a hacker team with the name of Al-Qaeda militant.

The team earlier today sent notification that Website of the Provincial Government of Camiguin, Philippines #Hacked www.camiguin.gov.ph".

They defaced the main webpage of the site with a text "Hacked by Bin Laden hacker".  The hackers also defaced the Official Website of the Provincial Government of Camiguin, Philippines(www.camiguin.gov.ph).

"The reason is that we against the Goverment We do it for Osama Bin Laden :)" The hacker stated as a reason for the attack .

At the time of writing, both sites show Forbidden error message  "You don't have permission to access / on this server.  Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request." It seems like the admin is investigating the issue and trying to patch the vulnerability.

Bharatiya Janta Party website defaced by Anonymous

Anonymous Hacked Bhartiya Janta Party's website a month ago.

They post a set of messages with pictures, reflecting the group’s condemnation of recent events including the government’s approval of 51% FDI in multi-brand retail, diesel price hike, corruption, the cartoon controversy, and the Kudankulam Power Project, among others.

The group also posted a YouTube video with a message from anonymous :

Last month, Anonymous Operation India (AnonOps India), had defaced the online magazine of the Indian Youth Congress Yuvadesh.com, in support of India Against Corruption and protests against alleged internet censorship by the Indian government.