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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) on Monday disclosed it’s working to gather “crucial evidence” and that it’s collaborating with overseas law enforcement authorities following the hack of telecom provider Optus. “Operation Hurricane has been launched to identify the criminals behind the alleged breach and to help shield Australians from identity fraud,” the AFP said in […]
The City of London Police on Friday revealed that it has arrested a 17-year-old teenager from Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking. “On the evening of Thursday 22 September 2022, the City of London Police arrested a 17-year-old in Oxfordshire on suspicion of hacking,” the agency said, adding “he remains in police custody.” The department said […]
American video game publisher Rockstar Games on Monday revealed it was a victim of a “network intrusion” that allowed an unauthorized party to illegally download early footage for the Grand Theft Auto VI. “At this time, we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of […]
Uber, in an update, said there is “no evidence” that users’ private information was compromised in a breach of its internal computer systems that was discovered late Thursday. “We have no evidence that the incident involved access to sensitive user data (like trip history),” the company said. “All of our services including Uber, Uber Eats, […]
Uber’s computer network has been hacked on Thursday, leading the company to take some of its internal communications and engineering systems offline. Reports say, an 18 year old hacker who was working on his cybersecurity skills for several years, sent images of email, cloud storage and code repositories to cybersecurity researchers and The New York […]
Popular short-form social video service TikTok denied reports that it was breached by a hacking group, after it claimed to have gained access to an insecure cloud server. “TikTok prioritizes the privacy and security of our users’ data,” the ByteDance-owned company told The Hacker News. “Our security team investigated these claims and found no evidence […]
Akasa Air, India’s newest commercial airline, exposed the personal data belonging to its customers that the company blamed on a technical configuration error. According to security researcher Ashutosh Barot, the issue is rooted in the account registration process, leading to the exposure of details such as names, gender, email addresses, and phone numbers. The bug […]
Signal, a cross-platform centralized encrypted instant messaging service declares that a data breach at Cloud Communication Company Twilio exposed almost 1,900 Signal users’ phone numbers. Twilio provides phone number verification services for Signal and notably on August 4th, it disclosed that attackers hacked its network. “All users can rest assured that their message history, contact […]
Dutch authorities on Friday announced the arrest of a software developer in Amsterdam who is alleged to be working for Tornado Cash, days after the U.S. sanctioned the decentralized crypto mixing service. The 29-year-old individual is “suspected of involvement in concealing criminal financial flows and facilitating money laundering” through the service, the Dutch Fiscal Information […]
Over 5.4 million Twitter user accounts a threat actor compiled profiles in order to create a list of the accounts. Using this ID, the threat actor then scraped the public information associated with this account to create a threat model. It was recently revealed that Twitter’s platform had a zero-day bug, which has now been […]
Entrust, a big name in digital security, announced recently on its website that it has been attacked by hackers. During this attack, hackers breached their firewalls and stole data from their internal systems through breaches in their network. It is an online trust and identity management company specializing in the deployment and management of online […]
Cleartrip Hacked: An Indian travel company, ‘Cleartrip’ owned by Flipkart, and headquartered in Mumbai suffers a massive data breach. Reports say the attackers have gained access to Cleartrip’s internal systems. The personal information of millions of users is being sold on the dark web. Cleartrip has confirmed this data breach and notified its customers via […]
SHI International Corp., formerly called Software House International, is a privately-owned provider of technology products and services, headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey. On July 4th, SHI was hit by a professional malware attack that indeed caused various disruptions. SHI has been counted among North America’s top 15 largest providers of IT solutions. It has 5,000 […]
Marriott Hotels & Resorts International based in Bethesda, Maryland suffered a data breach. An unnamed hacking group claimed to have stolen approximately 20GB of data including personal and credit card details of guests. According to a Marriott spokesperson, “the company is aware of a threat actor who used social engineering to trick one associate at […]
Your smartphone is your daily companion. The chances are that most of our activities rely on them, from ordering food to booking medical appointments. However, the threat landscape always reminds us how vulnerable smartphones can be. Consider the recent discovery by Oversecured, a security startup. These experts observed the dynamic code loading and its potential […]
A 36-year-old former Amazon employee was convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in the U.S. for her role in the theft of personal data of no fewer than 100 million people in the 2019 Capital One breach. Paige Thompson, who operated under the online alias “erratic” and worked for the tech giant till 2016, […]
An illicit online marketplace known as SSNDOB was taken down in operation led by U.S. law enforcement agencies, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Tuesday. SSNDOB trafficked in personal information such as names, dates of birth, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers of about 24 million individuals in the U.S., generating its operators $19 […]
If one word could sum up the 2021 infosecurity year (well, actually three), it would be these: “supply chain attack”. A software supply chain attack happens when hackers manipulate the code in third-party software components to compromise the ‘downstream’ applications that use them. In 2021, we have seen a dramatic rise in such attacks: high […]
The database containing 10GB worth of user information of three VPN services such as ChatVPN, SuperVPN, and GeckoVPN was leaked in the Telegram Groups. On May 7th, 2022, the data of 21 million users was leaked, exposing the personal details and login credentials of the users. The Data Breach: Telegram uses encryption and offers its […]
India’s computer and emergency response team, CERT-In, on Thursday published new guidelines that require service providers, intermediaries, data centers, and government entities to compulsorily report cybersecurity incidents, including data breaches, within six hours. “Any service provider, intermediary, data center, body corporate and Government organization shall mandatorily report cyber incidents […] to CERT-In within six hours […]
Telecom company T-Mobile on Friday confirmed that it was the victim of a security breach in March after the LAPSUS$ mercenary gang managed to gain access to its networks. The acknowledgment came after investigative journalist Brian Krebs shared internal chats belonging to the core members of the group indicating that LAPSUS$ breached the company several […]