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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 […]
Clubhouse has confirmed that it did not suffer a data breach and leaked records are in fact collected through data scraping. In the last couple of weeks, threat actors leaked a trove of scraped LinkedIn and Facebook user records. In LinkedIn’s case, the leaked records contained personal details of more than 1 billion users while […]
Kenneth Currin Schuchman, who is also known as Nexus Zeta from Vancouver, Canada, is the creator of deadly Mirai and Qbot-based botnet, has sentenced to 13 months in prison for hiring and promoting the Mirai and Qbot-based DDoS botnets utilized in DDoS attacks against targets from all over the world. Rather than Mirai, Kenneth Currin […]
Lately, we have observed a sudden rise in cyber attacks against cities and towns around the world including the US, the latest victim of which is the city of Pensacola. The city’s Mayor Grover Robinson has acknowledged that an extensive cyber attack on Friday crippled several City services in Pensacola, Florida including city phones, emails, […]
China is greatly disturbed by the ongoing pro-democracy, anti-Beijing protests in Hong Kong and has been targeting all the digital forums protestors are using to organize protests. One of the favored tactics of the Chinese government is of launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attacks). In September this year, HackRead reported that LIHKG, an online […]
In 2014 Europol, the European law enforcement agency, in collaboration with agencies from 18 EU member states, INTERPOL, the US National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Eurojust initiated a global operation against piracy websites dubbed ‘Operation In Our Sites X‘ (IOSX). It is a joint investigative effort to put an end to the […]
A Russian hacker who created and used Neverquest banking malware to steal money from victims’ bank accounts has finally been sentenced to 4 years in prison by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Stanislav Vitaliyevich Lisov, 34, was arrested by Spanish authorities at Barcelona–El Prat Airport in January 2017 […]
American telecommunications giant T-Mobile Anoununced a data breach on its network, through which attackers gained access to a prepaid customer’s data. T-Mobile US provides wireless voice, messaging, and data services in the United States. The company operates the third largest wireless network in the U.S market with over 84.2 million customers and annual revenues of […]
If you like to watch movies and TV series online then you should know what Disney+ is but for those who don’t, Disney+ is a video-on-demand streaming service owned by Walt Disney. The service was launched last week on November 12th, 2019. However, word on the Internet is that hackers have been selling thousands of […]
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 […]
Recently, there has been a surge in ransomware attacks as we know it, and web hosting service providers are the new eye candy of cybercriminals. Now, the leading web hosting service provider for ASP.net called SmarterASP.NET, is the latest victim of a major ransomware attack. The company has already released a statement confirming the news […]
An animal abuse website or otherwise called a “bestiality” platform (whose name will not be shared here as it is not appropriate) has been hacked and as a result, its database containing personal information of registered users has been stolen. The breach took place on September 25th, 2019 and confirmed by Troy Hunt of HaveIbeenPwned […]
Spain’s largest radio station Cadena SER and IT service provider Everis suffered ransomware attacks which crippled its service. While the protests in Catalonia may be or may not be a bad thing depending on who you ask, everyone in Spain would agree that what happened today is nothing short of unpleasant. Earlier this week, two […]
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 […]
Two grey hat hackers have pleaded guilty to blackmailing Uber, LinkedIn, and other U.S. corporations for money in exchange for promises to delete data of millions of customers they had stolen in late 2016. In a San Jose courthouse in California on Wednesday, Brandon Charles Glover (26) of Florida and Vasile Mereacre (23) of Toronto […]
Cybersecurity researchers at the Singapore-based firm Group-IB have identified data dump containing information about a whopping 1.3 million+ credit and debit cards. The data almost entirely (98%) belongs to Indian banking customers while the rest of the data belongs to banks in Columbia. The data is up for sale on a website on the Dark […]
Under “usual circumstances,” AWS makes headlines for exposing databases of companies using its services. A few days ago (Oct 22, 2019), the world’s large cloud services provider – Amazon Web Services (AWS) – was hit by a series of DDoS attacks (Distributed Denial of Service) resulting in portions of it going offline for several hours. […]
“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 […]
You may call it karma or label it as what goes around comes around; it is reported that the website that thrives by selling stolen credit card data has itself been hacked. And, hackers have removed nearly 26 million records from the site, which is double from its sales so far – The news was […]