Author: Occupy The Web

Using MiTM with driftnet to View the Target’s Images In each of our previous MiTM attacks, we have been able to place ourselves between two users and to view their traffic. This traffic can been seen by using such tools as Wireshark and other packet sniffers. As we can see below, Wireshark shows us with […]

Almost two weeks ago, as part of a forensic investigation for our client, we discovered crypto-currency attacks coming from Avast AV. Avast’s attorneys used their clout to force our website offline this past weekend to keep the word from getting out. We had to remove the article to get Hackers-Arise back online or face a […]

Each and every day, the world is turning to and adopting the smartphone platform as the digital device of choice. People are not only using smartphones for voice communication, but also web services, email, SMS, chatting, social networking, photography, payment services, and so on. There are 2.3 billion smartphone subscriptions in the world today, and […]

With each day’s dawning, come new cyber attacks. No one is immune from these attacks; national governments, corporations and individuals are all vulnerable to these attacks and they seem to be accelerating as our world becomes increasingly dependent upon digital means of functioning. In a era where nearly every aspect of our lives has a […]

ARPspoofing and MiTM One of the classic hacks is the Man in the Middle attack. In this attack, the hacker places themselves between the client and the server and thereby has access to all the traffic between the two. In general, when an attacker wants to place themselves between a client and server, they will […]