Billions 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 US$120,000
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While logins to music and video streaming services sell for less than ten dollars each, domain admin access is being offered for US$120,000
The cybercriminal behind the ransom raids on almost 23,000 databases threatens to leak the data and alert GDPR regulators
An obscure Indian company operated a scheme targeting non-profits, banks, politicians and journalists all over the world, a report says
A hack-and-extort campaign takes aim at poorly secured databases replete with customer information that can be exploited for further attacks
Technology is currently evolving with such a fast speed that yearly predictions of trends might appear outdated even before they go live as an article or a published blog post. As the technology advances, it enables even quicker change as well as progress, thus causing a speeding up of the pace of change, until finally, […]
Eleven companies, ranging from online marketplaces to news websites, have had their user databases poached
In the current cybersecurity landscape, the threats facing enterprises have evolved; and now highlight a growing level of sophistication in the methods employed by cybercriminals- as is often made evident by the prevalence and serious nature of the data breaches launched by hackers. Needless to say, when we take into account hacks such as the […]
On the upside, the Bureau recovered more than US$300 million in funds lost to online scams last year
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A subscription to the trove of personal details could be had for as little as $2
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It’s not a stretch to surmise that the incident was enabled by poor security settings
IM-RAT, which could be had for as little as US$25, was bought by nearly 15,000 people
Hundreds of botnets operate internationally to achieve various malicious objectives. One such botnet named Stantinko which has been operating since 2012 in countries such as Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan controls over half a million computers globally. In its latest update, it has added a new capability of cryptomining making use of the highly anonymized […]
LINE Corporation, Japan-based communication, today announced the launch of a public bug bounty program on the HackerOne site for pentest and HackerOne bug bounty. Started in 2011, LINE became one of the world’s largest social platforms with hundreds of millions of users worldwide. After the private bug bounty program was started on HackerOne in July […]
Yesterday, federal authorities in the United States charged 14 people for conning Apple of $6 million. Believed to be members of an international criminal organization, the group was led by three brothers who imported over 10,000 counterfeit iPhones and iPads from China and then went on to exchange them for real devices in Apple stores based […]
Extradition has always been a sour topic, particularly amongst countries that are not the best of friends. Such a recent split was seen when a 29 years old Russian hacker named Aleksei Burkov was extradited to the USA by Israel for allegedly engaging in acts that led to over $20 million in credit card fraud. […]
Movie2free.com was home to over 3000 pirated movies and made monthly revenue of 5 million Baht through gambling ads. The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) in Thailand has shut down Movie2free.com, a popular pirated movie website. The “end times” for the website arrived after receiving a complaint from the Motion Picture Association (MPA) in the […]
The company has filed a damage report with investigative authorities in the US and Hong Kong. The leading financial media organization in Japan and owner of the Financial Times Nikkei has admitted that it suffered an embarrassing Business Email Compromise (BEC) or commonly known as BEC attack. What is Business Email Compromise (BEC)? BEC is […]
The fake version was targeting users for years. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, anonymity-retaining browsers like Tor and underground platforms like the Dark Web have offered users a great opportunity to carry out their nefarious deeds online without getting caught. However, tables have turned now as hackers and spammers aren’t sparing Dark Web users. Reportedly, a malicious […]
“This hidden site has been seized,” says the marketplace’s homepage. The Dark Web’s largest and most profitable child pornography website dubbed “Welcome to Video” has been seized and its operator charged by a federal grand jury in the United States. According to the Department of Justice’s (DoJ) press release, the site hosted 8 terabytes of […]