Mark Zuckerberg, Facebok CEO's Twitter, Pinterest accounts Hacked!...

A group from Saudi Arabia, going by the name OurMine, has claimed responsibility for the hack.

Thanks to the LinkedIn data breach!
The hackers tweeted that they found Zuck's account credentials in the recent LinkedIn data breach, from which they took his SHA1-hashed password string and then broke it and tried on several social media accounts.

OurMine, which has more than 40,000 Twitter followers, then successfully broke into Zuck's Twitter (@finkd) and Pinterest profile and defaced its banners with its logo as well as tweeted out some offensive posts.

Mr. Zuckerberg has not sent a tweet from the account since 2012.

Now, what’s more surprising?

Zuckerberg's LinkedIn password was "dadada", which he also used for his other online accounts, the group tweeted.

"No Facebook systems or accounts were accessed," a Facebook spokesperson said. "The affected accounts have been re-secured."

More than 167 Million members' email and password combinations were hacked during a 2012 LinkedIn data breach and had just been posted online. The passwords were encrypted with the SHA1 algorithm with "no salt" that made it easier for hackers to crack them.
I suggest you change your password immediately, especially if you use the same password for other websites.
source: thehackernews

CYPTOWALL RANSOMWARE GENERATED $325 MILLION IN REVENUE

 

hackers primarily (literally) gain access to a user's computer system using a ransomware malware, which encrypts all files with a strong cryptographic algorithm, and demand a ransom money to be paid in Bitcoin, in most cases between $200 and $10,000.

A (pdf)  Report published by Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA), an industry group formed last year to study emerging threats, researchers have discovered:

• 406,887 CryptoWall infection attempts
• Total of 4,046 malware samples
• 839 command-and-control server URLs to send commands and receive data
• 5 second-tier IP addresses
• 49 different CryptoWall distribution campaigns
• Out of 49, a single campaign, dubbed as "crypt100", infected as many as 15,000 computers worldwide
• cybercriminals behind the ransomware are likely to a singular group due to several similarities
• Same hacker group generated more than $18 Million in the past year alone from previous versions of CryptoWall.

In summary, this single cybercriminal ring has generated as much as $325 million from the money paid by hundreds of thousands of CryptoWall 3.0 victims around the world to get their encrypted files unlocked.