Freshly scraped LinkedIn data of 88,000 US business owners shared online
About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems that...
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Hackers hit a televised phone-in between President Putin and citizens at a TV show
A massive cyber attack attempted to disrupt a televised phone-in between Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Rossiya 24 network....
Police seize DoubleVPN data, servers, and domain
A coordinated effort between global law enforcement agencies—led by the Dutch National Police—shut down a VPN service that was advertised...
Babuk ransomware builder leaked following muddled “retirement”
In the last days of April 2021, the operators of Babuk ransomware announced they were going to focus on demanding...
Second colossal LinkedIn “breach” in 3 months, almost all users affected
LinkedIn has reportedly been breached—again—following reports of a massive sale of information scraped from 500M LinkedIn user profiles in the...
Logins and passwords of at least 1.2 million Russians have been leaked online
The credential verification service developed by cybersecurity company BI.ZONE (a subsidiary of Sberbank) has revealed that information about logins and...
Threat Actors Target Aviation Firms Via Spear Phishing Campaign
Fortinet researchers discovered a spear-phishing campaign targeting the aviation industry with malicious download links that distribute the AsyncRAT with a...
Colombian authorities arrested hacker behind the Gozi Virus
Colombian authorities arrested a Romanian hacker who is wanted in the U.S. for distributing the Gozi virus that already infected...
Russian-based DoubleVPN seized by law enforcement
Law enforcement seized the servers and customer logs for DoubleVPN, a double-encryption service widely used by threat actors for malicious...
SolarWinds hackers remained hidden in Denmark’s central bank for months
Russia-linked threat actors compromised Denmark’s central bank (Danmarks Nationalbank) and remained in its systems for months. Russia-linked threat actors infected...
New LinkedIn breach exposes data of 700 Million users
A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, the leak reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, more than 92%...
PoC exploit for CVE-2021-1675 RCE started circulating online
Proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2021-1675 flaw, an attacker could exploit it to compromise Windows systems. Proof-of-concept exploit code for the...
Fired by algorithm: The future’s here and it’s a robot wearing a white collar
Black Mirror meets 1984. Imagine that your employer uses a bot to keep track of your “production level.” And when...
5G Security Vulnerabilities Concern Mobile Operators
As 5G private networks become more widely available in the next years, security may become a major concern for businesses....
Indian Origin Woman Rewarded with Rs 22 Lakh Bounty by Microsoft
Aditi Singh, a 20-year-old Delhi-based ethical hacker, was awarded $30,000 (Rs 22 lakh roughly) for detecting a bug in the...
Data of 700 Million LinkedIn Users Has Been Compromised
A massive breach has purportedly compromised the data of over 700 million LinkedIn users. LinkedIn has a total of 756...
Russia intends to sign agreements with a number of countries in the field of cybersecurity
Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Oleg Khramov named several countries with which Moscow plans to...
Microsoft Admits of Signing a Rootkit Malware
Earlier this month, Microsoft signed a driver called Netfilter that turned out to be a malicious network filter rootkit. Krasten...
Remote dating: How do the apps safeguard our data?
The pandemic and the restrictions that came with it have led to an increase in the popularity of dating apps....
Linux version of REvil ransomware targets ESXi VM
The REvil ransomware operators added a Linux encryptor to their arsenal to encrypt Vmware ESXi virtual machines. The REvil ransomware...
Experts developed a free decryptor for the Lorenz ransomware
Researchers analyzed a recently discovered threat, the Lorenz ransomware, and developed a free decryptor for the victims of this new...
GitHub paid out over $500K through its bug bounty program for 203 flaws in 2020
Code repository hosting service GitHub announced that it has paid out more than $1.5 million through its bug bounty program since...
Binance receives the ban hammer from UK’s FCA
Binance, the world’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency exchange network, has had a rough few days. First, Japan’s financial regulator,...
What is the WireGuard VPN protocol?
In layman’s terms, a VPN uses encryption to create a private online connection between a device and a VPN server....
