January 29, 2024
Via: Security AffairsUkraine’s security service, the SBU, announced that it has identified and detained an alleged member of the pro-Russia hacker group known as the Cyber Army of Russia. The news was first reported by The Record Media. The hacktivists group is […]
January 26, 2024
Via: Security AffairsThe Russian national Vladimir Dunaev (40) has been sentenced in the US to 64 months in prison for his role in the development and distribution of the TrickBot malware. Vladimir Dunaev was extradited to the U.S. in October 2021. Dunaev, […]
Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware
January 2, 2024
Via: Security AffairsHudson Researchers reported that on December 20th, a hacker using the moniker ‘irleaks’ announced the availability for sale of over 160,000,000 records allegedly stolen from 23 leading insurance companies in Iran. The hacker claims that stolen data includes first name, […]
December 26, 2023
Via: DataBreach TodayA Russian man accused by the United States of trafficking in a hacked database of online credentials will apparently evade American courts after the Russian government said it had succeeded in extraditing him. Russian prosecutors said authorities in Kazakhstan will […]
December 7, 2023
Via: SecureWorldNew revelations have shed light on the extensive fallout of the 23andMe data breach, which has exposed the personal information of a staggering 6.9 million users. This significant update comes almost two months after the genetic testing company initially reported […]
May 22, 2023
Via: The Hacker NewsA U.K. national responsible for his role as the administrator of the now-defunct iSpoof online phone number spoofing service has been sentenced to 13 years and 4 months in prison. Tejay Fletcher, 35, of Western Gateway, London, was awarded the […]
May 17, 2023
Via: Security AffairsThe US Justice Department charged Russian national Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (30), aka Wazawaka, m1x, Boriselcin, and Uhodiransomwar, for his alleged role in multiple ransomware attacks. The DoJ unsealed two indictments charging the man with using three different ransomware families in […]
April 12, 2023
Via: SecurityWeekGoogle-owned Mandiant is investigating the breach and 3CX has released some information from the security firm’s initial analysis. “Based on the Mandiant investigation into the 3CX intrusion and supply chain attack thus far, they attribute the activity to a cluster […]
April 3, 2023
Via: SecurityWeekAccording to data collected by Fortinet, based on the number of devices connecting to attacker-controlled infrastructure, the highest percentage of victims is in Italy, followed by Germany, Austria, the United States, South Africa, Australia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada and the […]
March 10, 2023
Via: Security WeekA hacker announced on a popular cybercrime forum on Thursday that they were “leaking data of a cybersecurity company called Acronis”, claiming that they hacked the company because they were bored and wanted to humiliate them. The hacker is the […]
December 27, 2022
Via: TechRadarJust when you thought the various controversies surrounding Twitter were winding down, a hacker claims to be selling the data of 400 million users. The data is said to have been captured in 2021, and was obtained using an API […]
Hacker, Threats & Malware, Vulnerabilities
November 10, 2022
Via: The Hacker NewsGoogle has resolved a high-severity security issue affecting all Pixel smartphones that could be trivially exploited to unlock the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20465 and reported by security researcher David Schütz in June 2022, was remediated as part of […]
November 1, 2022
Via: Security WeekOnly few details have been shared by the retailer as the investigation is ongoing. The company explained that it became aware of unauthorized access to some data after an employee was targeted in a ‘phishing scam’ in October. The hacker […]
September 16, 2022
Via: The Hacker NewsRide hailing giant Uber disclosed Thursday it’s responding to a cybersecurity incident involving a breach of its network and that it’s in touch with law enforcement authorities. The New York Times first reported the incident. The company pointed to its […]
Data loss, Hacker, Threats & Malware
August 15, 2022
Via: TechRadarA hacker claims to have breached Shanghai’s Covid app and stolen the personal user data found there According to a Reuters report, a cybercriminal going by the name XJP took to the hacker forum Breach Forums, to advertise a database […]
August 11, 2022
Via: Help Net SecurityU.S. networking giant Cisco Systems has been hacked, the company confirmed on Wednesday, after Yanluowang ransomware operators claimed the attack on their leak site. But according to Cisco’s Talos threat intelligence team, the breach resulted in the exfiltraton of inconsequential […]
July 5, 2022
Via: Security WeekA sample of 750,000 entries posted online by the hacker showed citizens’ names, mobile phone numbers, national ID numbers, addresses, birthdays and police reports they had filed. AFP and cybersecurity experts have verified some of the citizen data in the […]
June 21, 2022
Via: Naked SecurityRemember the Capital One breach? We did, though we felt sure it had happened a long time ago. Indeed, when we checked, it had: the story first broke almost three years ago, back in July 2019. At the time, the […]
May 18, 2022
Via: Help Net SecurityCompanies and other organizations should be careful when employing IT freelancers, lest they end up hiring North Korean hackers. The advice comes from the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, […]
January 14, 2022
Via: The Hacker NewsA man from the U.K. city of Nottingham has been sentenced to more than two years in prison for illegally breaking into the phones and computers of a number of victims, including women and children, to spy on them and […]