Cyber Crime
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3.4KFacebook sues developer of data scraping extensions for Chrome
The developer is a Portuguese company that Facebook claims developed malicious Chrome extensions allowing data scraping. Data scraping against Facebook and other...
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1.1KHackers phish 615,000 login credentials by using Facebook ads
Once again, Facebook ads have been misused by cybercriminals in a large-scale phishing scam to steal victims’ login credentials. Facebook seems to...
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3.4KHackers using smart home devices to live streaming swatting attacks
The F.B.I. is warning users to use strong credentials to prevent their smart devices from being used during swatting attacks. The U.S....
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2.1KItaly’s Ho-Mobile database with 2.5m accounts allegedly stolen, sold
What sounds like a nightmare for a company? Waking up to the news that the data of their customers is being sold...
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4.1KTicketmaster hacked a rival and now it’s paying $10m fine for it
Ticketmaster Pays $10m Criminal Fine for Hacking Rival – DoJ states that the company illegally accessed its competitor’s computer systems to ‘choke...
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926British judge says Julian Assange will not be extradited to the US
The United States’ fight to get Wikileaks founder Julian Assange extradited so that he could stand a trial in a US court...
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4.5K21 WeLeakInfo customers arrested for buying breached data
WeLeakInfo was seized last year for selling user records leaked by hackers in hundreds of data breaches. The UK National Crime Agency...
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3.7KFeds seize VPN service used by hackers in cyber attacks
Cybercriminals’ Favorite VPN Service Rendered ‘Inaccessible’ in a Joint Operation Conducted by Europol and the FBI. Operation Nova Safe-Inet is a virtual...
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2.9KUS COVID-19 relief bill to make copyrighted content streaming a felony
The $300/weekly unemployment legislation includes a clause that will make streaming of protected content a punishable crime. The US Congress has passed...
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4.2KGionee subsidiary implanted malware in over 20 million phones
The Chinese smartphone maker reportedly made $4.2 million through manufacturing malware-infected phones. Chinese mobile phones are generally considered unreliable when it comes...
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4.4KFacebook links activities of OceanLotus hackers to IT firm in Vietnam
The social network has barred Vietnamese APT32 (or OceanLotus) and a Bangladeshi group of hackers from using its platforms for their malicious...
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3.5KDark Web’s only Finnish language market Sipulimarket seized
Finnish authorities were able to take down Sipulimarket with support from Polish authorities and Europol. Finnish Customs has managed to seize the...
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5.0KMalware service operators arrested; offered antivirus bypassing tools
The malware encryption service run by a Romanian duo helped hackers embed malicious code in legit software to bypass antivirus tools. In...
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4.3KGoDaddy employees tricked in attack against cryptocurrency firms
Earlier this month, cybercriminals targeted GoDaddy customers to modify the DNS settings of at least two cryptocurrency websites, namely NiceHash and Liquid....
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1.3KSopra Steria records heavy financial loss after Ryuk ransomware attack
As reported in October 2020, Sopra Steria, a renowned French IT services provider, confirmed that its systems were targeted with a ransomware...
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1.9KLeader of biggest online sextortion ring ‘Nth Room’ jailed for 40 years
Cho Ju-Bin was accused of forcing at least 74 females, including 16 minors, into Virtual Enslavement on Nth Room to produce and...
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4.2KAuthorities disrupt massive stolen credit card trading scam on dark web
Dubbed Carding Action 2020; the operation aimed at targeting several dark web marketplaces resulting in saving $48million/€40 million. Europol backed by...
