Cyber Crime
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913 including a juvenile charged over July 15th Twitter hack
The Twitter hack allowed hackers to rake in over £80,000/$100,000. The United States government has charged three individuals over their alleged roles in...
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85Hackers used phone phishing on Twitter employee to access internal tools
A Twitter employee was tricked into phone phishing allowing hackers to access the company’s internal support tool and hack into verified accounts....
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81Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak sues YouTube over Bitcoin scams on his name
Steve Wozniak has accused YouTube and Google of facilitating Bitcoin giveaway scams by not taking any action against them. Apple co-founder Steve...
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80Teens arrested after paying Bitcoin to watch livestream abuse & murder
The tale of dark web’s disturbing Red Room has been revealed by Italian authorities. There’s a strong connection between child abuse and...
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13Cloud hosting firm Blackbaud pays ransom after thwarting ransomware attack
Blackbaud claims it paid a ransom to protect customer data. A leading non-profit fundraising and financial technology supplier Blackbaud managed to stop...
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74Bill & Melinda Gates foundation impersonated in Bitcoin phishing scam
The importance of such Bitcoin phishing scams has increased due to the massive Twitter accounts hack spree on July 15th, 2020. A...
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2.3K40GB of leaked videos expose how Iranian hackers hijack email accounts
The trove of videos was identified by IBM’s X-Force researchers but it is unclear whether it will be shared with the public...
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2.2KOnline Jewish service ‘Zoom bombed’ with hate speech & Swastikas
The increase in Zoom bombing was first witnessed in March 2020 amid COVID-19 related lockdown. A hateful intrusion during a Jewish congregation...
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4.6KCrypto scam: Twitter’s internal tool was used in hijacking verified accounts
Twitter has acknowledged that hackers used its internal tool for the hack leading to a crypto scam that tricked hundreds worldwide. Yesterday,...
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25Details of 142 million MGM hotel guests selling for US$2,900
It appears that the July 2019 breach at MGM Resorts affected far more people than initially thought
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3.8K142 million MGM customers’ data sold on dark web marketplace
MGM database was among the list of databases stolen by NightLion hacker after breaching breach monitoring site DataViper. In February 2020, Hackread.com...
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4.3KMan convicted for identity theft & fraud against US Military, veterans
Californian man has been sentenced to 46 months (3.8 years) for his role in a successful scam involving over a million-dollar scam....
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4.2KHacker steals databases from breach monitoring site; sells them online
DataViper, a breach monitoring site is owned by cybersecurity researcher Vinny Troia who vows to expose real-life identities of prominent dark web...
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23Billions of stolen passwords for sale on the dark web
While logins to music and video streaming services sell for less than ten dollars each, domain admin access is being offered for...
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1.5K15 billion credentials from 100,000 data breaches sold on dark web
The report was compiled after gathering advertisements from different dark web marketplaces in the last 2.5 years. It is a fact that...
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4.1KFeds indict Fxmsp hacker who breached anti-virus firms to sell data
The Fxmsp hacker is a Kazakhstani citizen who hacked anti-virus firms like Trend Micro, Symantec, and McAfee. In May 2019, we reported...
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2.8KFBI arrests Famous Instagrammer Ray Hushpuppi over $125m BEC scam
One of Ray Hushpuppi’s targets was the English Premier League soccer club from which he tried to steal £100m (approximately $125 million)....
