US insurance company has customer data leaked on forum
We recently discovered a 500GB database purportedly belonging to USG Insurance Services being leaked online for free on a popular Russian hacking forum. The cybercriminal leaking the data claims...
FBI Seizes ‘SSNDOB’ ID Theft Service for Selling Personal Info of 24 Million People
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
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...
Colombian Real Estate Agency Leak Exposes Records of Over 100,000 Buyers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
More than one terabyte of data containing 5.5 million files has been left exposed, leaking personal information of over 100,000 customers of a Colombian real estate firm,...
OpenAI Reveals Redis Bug Behind ChatGPT User Data Exposure Incident
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Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Data Security
OpenAI on Friday disclosed that a bug in the Redis open source library was responsible for the exposure of other users'...
Telstra Telecom Suffers Data Breach Potentially Exposing Employee Information
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Australia's largest telecommunications company Telstra disclosed that it was the victim of a data breach through a third-party, nearly two weeks after Optus reported a breach of...
Linux Variants of Bifrost Trojan Evade Detection via Typosquatting
A 20-year-old Trojan resurfaced recently with new variants that target Linux and impersonate a trusted hosted domain to evade detection.Researchers from Palo Alto Networks spotted a new Linux variant...
Leaked NSO Group Data Hints at Widespread Pegasus Spyware Infections
The secretive Israeli firm was allegedly storing 50,000+ mobile phone numbers for activists, journalists, business executives and politicians — possible targets of iPhone and Android hacking.
Israeli-based NSO Group is...
Qakbot Takedown Aftermath: Mitigations and Protecting Against Future Threats
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Dec 01, 2023The Hacker NewsMalware / Cyber Threat
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI recently collaborated in a multinational operation to dismantle the notorious Qakbot malware...
Cybersecurity Firm FireEye Got Hacked; Red-Team Pentest Tools Stolen
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
FireEye, one of the largest cybersecurity firms in the world, said on Tuesday it became a victim of a state-sponsored attack by a "highly sophisticated threat actor"...
Remote Encryption Attacks Surge: How One Vulnerable Device Can Spell Disaster
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Dec 20, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Data Breach
Ransomware groups are increasingly switching to remote encryption in their attacks, marking a new escalation in tactics adopted by financially motivated actors...
