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AlphaBay marketplace was originally seized in 2017 but now someone claiming to be DeSnake, the original AlphaBay co-founder has announced bringing the marketplace back to business. There’s little doubt that law enforcement agencies worldwide have got hold of cybercriminal marketplaces, and their business has almost gone defunct. But, seems like that won’t be the case […]
Accenture maintains that no client data was impacted but the cybersecurity fraternity believes the company is downplaying the ransomware attack. The infamous LockBit ransomware gang launched a ransomware attack against global IT giant Accenture. However, Accenture claims that the attack didn’t cause any damage to the client’s data or its systems. But, Hackread.com can confirm […]
The member who goes by the username of “m1Geelka” expressed resentment on the notion that recruited hackers are not paid reasonably by the Conti ransomware gang. Over the past decade, we have seen a range of ransomware attacks. But very rarely do we get a glimpse into their insider working on how these groups coordinate […]
Phishing is getting smarter. A type of social engineering attack in which the attacker uses fraudulent messages that are designed to fool the would-be victim into sharing sensitive information or clicking a particular link, phishing has long been part of life on the internet. The term was first coined a quarter-century ago, using a purposeful […]
Currently, the official website of the REvil group along with its chat and payment gateways are offline. A few days ago, we saw how the REvil group, believed to be located in Russia conducted one of the largest cyberattacks against Kaseya, a software company located in the U.S. The group demanded a record-breaking $70 million […]
Ukrainian authorities have seized the illegal cryptomining farm and recovered 3,800 PlayStation 4 gaming consoles and GPUs. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has shut down an illegal cryptomining farm, which was operating at an extensive scale. According to the official report, the miners were performing their malicious activities from a utility room at a […]
Oregon Native Talon White was Charged for Offering Illegal Streaming of Copy-right Protected Content. Infamous Poker player Talon White has received 12 months of a prison sentence after being involved in the illegal streaming of thousands of copyright-protected TV shows and movies through his numerous subscription-based websites. SEE: Best legal, free online streaming sites for […]
A 21-year-old US citizen named John Binns has claimed responsibility for the T-Mobile data breach and labeled the carrier’s “security is awful.” Earlier this month, T-Mobile suffered a data breach in which a hacker claimed to steal the personal data of 100 million customers. Although the company acknowledged the breach yet claimed that the incident […]
The accused is a Greek national who used AlphaBay marketplace with the alias “The Bull” on the dark web for insider trading information. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a 30-year-old Greek national, Apostolos Trovias, for securities fraud and money laundering. The SEC states that Trovias, who used the screen name The Bull, is an […]
“Dr. Hex” is accused of defacing websites, carrying out phishing attacks and malware campaigns. An alleged malicious hacker and a cybercriminal who goes by the alias “Dr. Hex” has been arrested in Morocco after a two-year-long investigation. Dubbed Op Lyrebird; authorities involved in the Operation included Moroccan police, International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, and […]
The alleged AT&T database is being sold for starting price of $200,000. ShinyHunters, the notorious hacker is claiming to have access to the AT&T database containing personal and sensitive records of more than 70 million customers. For your information, AT&T Inc. is the largest provider of mobile telephone services in the U.S. and also the […]
The targeted company Poly Network claims that hackers exploited a vulnerability between contract calls where a contract can change/modify the keeper of a contract and execute transactions. One of the industry’s leading decentralized finance platforms (DeFi) Poly Network has become a victim of a cyberheist in which hackers managed to steal $611 million worth of […]
The Revil ransomware group has released a notice stating that more than 1 million systems have been infected – far more than initially believed. A couple of days ago, we reported on how the infamous REvil ransomware had targeted over 40 Managed Service Providers (MSPs) compromising more than 1000 businesses in the process. In the […]
US, Canada, and European authorities took part in the operation which ended up seizing cybercriminals’ access to and infrastructure of DoubleVPN. A collaborative effort between Europe, Canada, and US law enforcement authorities has served a big blow to threat actors. According to a press release from Europol, they have seized the web domains, customer logs, […]
The suspect, Mihai Ionut Paunescu, was already arrested by the Romanian authorities in December 2012 but managed to avoid extradition to the United States. Colombian authorities have arrested Mihai Ionut Paunescu, a Romanian man who was charged more than eight years ago by the United States with involvement in developing the Gozi virus. Gozi is […]
Revil ransomware gang is claiming to have downloaded databases and other important data belonging to the MasMovil group. Spain’s 4th largest telecom operator MasMovil Ibercom or MasMovil is the latest victim of the infamous Revil ransomware gang (aka Sodinokibi) On its official blog accessible via Tor browser, as seen by Hackread.com, the ransomware operator claims […]
Kaseya was informed about the vulnerabilities back in April 2021 but it failed to address the issue in time. The remote management and monitoring solutions provider, Kaseya VSA, has released patches for three critical vulnerabilities exploited by the REvil ransomware gang to launch a devastating ransomware attack earlier in July 2021. In April 2021, the […]
The original DarkSide ransomware gang had quit its operation last month after the attack on Colonial Pipeline. In May 2021, the DarkSide ransomware group targeted Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel pipeline in the United States. The attack was so severe that it shut down 5,500 miles of pipeline along the East Coast. As a repercussion, […]
Apple has developed a system dubbed neuralMatch to locate child sexual abuse material/CSAM, and for now, it will scan iPhones of users in the United States. The perks of the internet are quite obvious and known to all but as they say “with every blessing comes a curse.” Similarly, the digital boom has brought along […]
REvil, the infamous ransomware cartel behind some of the biggest cyberattacks targeting JBS and Kaseya, has mysteriously disappeared from the dark web, leading to speculations that the criminal enterprise may have been taken down. Multiple darknet and clearnet sites maintained by the Russia-linked cybercrime syndicate, including the data leak, extortion, and payment portals, remained inaccessible, […]
This year, Cl0p ransomware operators have regularly appeared in the news. The group has been striking businesses worldwide espicially to extort money from businesses based in the United States. In the latest, the Ukrainian police has confirmed carring out an operation against hackers affiliated with Cl0p ransomware. The operation was a joint collaboration with law […]