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Reportedly, the Russian government-backed hackers also managed to spy on the emails of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA). Hackers backed by the Russian government hacked into several US government departments including the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and U.S. Treasury and Commerce. NTIA is an agency of the Department of Commerce that […]
Cybersecurity threats, and in particular ransomware attacks, are facts of life and daily occurrences in an increasingly digital economy. The more commercial activity takes place via the internet and using hardware and software that interfaces with the web, the more vulnerable a business is to the depredations of malicious actors. Interestingly, most of the largest […]
According to CISA, it has verified one of the users had their account breached even though they were using “proper multi-factor authentication (MFA).” Last year, it was reported that threat actors have been using legitimate tools to compromise Cloud-based assets. Now, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to alert […]
Microsoft and cybersecurity firm FireEye has identified three new malware used by SolarWinds hackers in their last year’s attack on highly critical private and government cyberinfrastructure in the United States. According to FireEye and Microsoft’s latest analysis, the SolarWinds hack was far more sinister than it initially appeared to be. Reportedly, the companies have […]
According to IT security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia, “If you ever had ordered pizza online from Domino’s India your data is leaked now.” Among other recent hacks that compromised Indian users’ data, a popular pizza outlet in the country, Domino’s India, seems to have undergone a cyber attack as well. According to Rajshekhar Rajaharia, an Indian […]
The data was leaked earlier today on an infamous hacker forum without users’ Facebook accounts passwords. For the last couple of years, a Facebook database containing the personal and contact information of more than 500 million users kept popping up on several hacker forums where threat actors offered the data for $30,000. Hackread.com exclusively reported […]
REvil ransomware gang claims to be negotiating with 3rd-parties to sell the alleged stolen data. The infamous REvil ransomware gang (also known as Sodinokibi) is back in action and this time its alleged victim is Quanta Computer Inc., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. In a post published by the REvil […]
The group behind the ransomware attack is the Babuk Locker gang. The District of Columbia’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), the sole law enforcement agency in the whole district, is the latest victim of a ransomware attack. The high-profile government agency confirmed the news only after the Babuk Locker gang posted about stealing D.C. Police department’s […]
OGUsers was also hacked in May 2019, April 2020, and December 2020. Another day, another data breach hits OGUsers, a cybercrime forum, and marketplace for stolen credentials and financial data. Yes, OGUsers has suffered another data breach in which its entire database has been dumped on a rival hacking forum. It is worth noting that […]
Recently, there has been a data breach from a telemarketing company called CallX which sells marketing services and software to enterprise clients, allowing businesses to track the performance of their media buying and telemarketing marketing operations. The data breach was discovered by vpnMentor’s Research team led by Noam Rotem. According to their report, Over […]
COVID-19 testing service in the State of Utah stored passport scans and other highly personal data on unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. A COVID-19 testing service in Utah ran by Premier Diagnostics exposed sensitive information of more than 50,000 people by storing data on two unsecured Amazon S3 buckets. What data was exposed The information included […]
An Australian software house, Click Studios, recently informed its customers to reset all the passwords that are stored on their password manager, PasswordState, which appears to have been compromised by cybercriminals. The customers were warned through an email that confirmed that PasswordState’s software update feature had been compromised and there were chances of hackers stealing […]
The exposed database was being updated in realtime with new logs while 1.48 million robocall logs were accessed by researchers initially. The WebsitePlanet research team alongside Jeremiah Fowler, an IT security researcher, discovered an insecure database that had no password protection and contained a large number of phone call records as well as VOIP (Voice […]
On April 22nd, 2021, a hacker going by the online handle of Pompompurin leaked a database containing personal and sensitive household data of over 250 million (250,807,711) American citizens and residents. As seen by Hackread.com, the database was leaked on a prominent hacker forum and comprises 263 GB worth of records including 1,255 CSV subfiles […]
Recently, it has been discovered that SMA-WATCH-M2, a smartwatch featuring a GPS tracker manufactured by a Chinese firm named Shenzhen Smart Care Technology has been found vulnerable in terms of data and location data and location security SMA-WATCH-M2 smartwatch Researchers at the IoT laboratory from the AV-TEST Institute revealed that the data of as much […]
Palo Alto Networks, the renowned cyber security firm, has suffered an unusual data breach in which personal details of not just present but former employees also had their data breached. What made things a lot more embarrassing for the Santa Clara, California-based firm is that the data (which included employees’ Social Security Numbers too) has […]
The popular South Korean cryptocurrency exchange UPbit has suffered a massive hack attack in which hackers have stolen 342,000 Ethereum (ETH) which at the time of publishing this article amounts to $51 million. The incident has ignited a series of reactions from industry bigwigs mainly blaming the company’s employees for the unfortunate incident. As noted […]
If you run a small business, it’s a matter of when, not if, your computer system or cyberinfrastructure falls prey to cybercriminals. Every day, thousands of small companies find their systems compromised and data stolen. When large companies are hacked, the media soon report the details. These giant corporations can afford the most advanced cyber […]
Another day, another breach involving Facebook, Twitter, and third-party developers. On Monday, both Facebook and Twitter announced that the data of hundreds of users had been compromised due to a software development kit (SDK) named “One Audience” giving third-party developers access to certain data. The data includes email addresses, usernames and recent tweets of anyone […]
The database was available for anyone to access without a password. Recently on October 16, 2019, a team of two dark web researchers named Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia discovered a database containing a massive trove of personal records of more than 1.2 billion people. While they were looking for exposures through BinaryEdge and Shodan, they stumbled […]
People often make a great effort to protect their credit/debit card details against fraudulent transactions. This has been further helped by banks implementing increased security with the help of two-factor authentication( 2FA). However, there’s this one instance where even 2FA doesn’t save you. Imagine someone replaces a legitimate payment page with a fraudulent one. Once […]