Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2020

The City of Torrance of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, California, is the last victim of the DoppelPaymer Ransomware, hackers also stole its data. On Sunday, the computer systems in the city of Torrance suffered a cyber attack that interrupted access to email accounts and server functions. ” reported Bleeping Computer.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2020

The company already sent a data breach notification to the impacted individuals. ” reads the data breach notification. ” reads the data breach notification. On June 15, the gang leaked 10.3GB of accounting and financial information as proof of the hack. Source: BleepingComputer.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 8, 2024

As detailed in my 2014 book, Spam Nation , Spamdot was home to crooks controlling some of the world’s nastiest botnets, global malware contagions that went by exotic names like Rustock , Cutwail , Mega-D , Festi , Waledac , and Grum. bank accounts. This post is an attempt to remedy that omission. .

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Hostinger disclosed a data breach that affects 14 Million customers. Binance says that leaked KYC Data are from third-party vendor. Imperva data Breach: WAF customers data exposed. White hat hacker demonstrated how to hack a million Instagram accounts. Remove it now from your phone!

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

“As part of this attack, the operators behind the Sodinokibi ransomware told BleepingComputer that they had encrypted the company’s entire network, deleted backup files, and copied more than 5GB of personal data. This data allegedly contained “DOB SSN CC and other” ” reported BleepingComputer.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites available for sale on the dark web. Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups. Coffee Meets Bagel dating app confirms data breach. Astaroth Trojan relies on legitimate os and antivirus processes to steal data. Malicious PDF Analysis.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In this article we will take a look at major cybersecurity risks and best practices how to reduce or avoid corporate data leakage. Details included names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth and encrypted passwords, all of which could be used to access other accounts belonging to these users.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2019

We first read about an embarrassing incident involving the social network giant that asked some newly-registered users to provide the passwords to their email accounts to confirm their identity … this is absurd. News of the day is related to a data leak suffered by the company. SecurityAffairs – Facebook, data leak).

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Every Brazilian national has assigned a taxpayer identification number that allows him to perform ordinary operations, such as opening a bank account, paying taxes, or getting a loan. Experts believe that directory was used to store database backups. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Once again thank you! Pierluigi Paganini.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As you can see in the chart below from Statista, data breaches rose more than tenfold between 2005 and 2017. The data indicates that attackers are going after larger data sets, rather than relying on getting their data from a larger number of smaller attacks. Consider the URL below: [link] DROP TABLE users.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In addition, the database included the Apple iCloud username and authentication token of mobile devices running mSpy, and what appear to be references to iCloud backup files. “All our customers’ accounts are securely encrypted and the data is being wiped out once in a short period of time. In September 2014, U.S.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

Behind the majority of these attacks: the ransomware gang known as Vice Society , a Russian-based group linked to multiple K–12 data breaches, including LA Unified, the second-largest school district in the nation.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 27, 2020

IBM’s “ 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report ” details the costs that come from a data breach as a result of various cybersecurity risks. million Healthcare organizations for the 9th year in a row had the highest costs associated with data breaches – $6.45 Yes, they are. percent in 2019.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 21, 2020

This comes as no surprise to regular followers, nor should it come as a surprise that I maintain an Untappd account, logging my beer experiences as I (used to ??) Someone had registered a new Netflix account with my email / password associated with my BeerAdvocate account. I love beer. You'll never believe what happened next.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 2, 2018

San Francisco, CA, December 03, 2018 – Spinbackup, a leading global cloud backup and cloud cybersecurity solutions provider for SaaS applications, announced today the general availability of Office 365 Backup & Recovery to a secure cloud storage on AWS and GCP with multiple storage locations.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. banks are stiffing account takeover victims. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018. If these passwords have been reused for corporate accounts, this may leave organizations at risk to account takeovers.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

In order to improve the security of its users, the popular software code hosting service GitHub is now alerting account holders whenever it detects that a password has been exposed by data breaches on other services. “Common password advice is to use a long and unique password for each website you have an account with.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When looking at such high-profile events as the Sony Pictures hack in 2014 or the Equifax breach last year that exposed the personally identifiable information of millions of U.S. The burden of responsibility is with the business to protect sensitive data. It only takes one cybersecurity event to devastate an organization.

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Spinone

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Google Team Drives Backup Spinbackup was the world’s first vendor to introduce backup and recovery features for Google Team Drives. Our key focus is the incident response plan that provides automated data recovery in case of ransomware and automated account suspension in case of compromised accounts.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 8, 2020

I've written before about how I verify breaches and it didn't take long to be pretty confident that per the subject line of the email above, Surebet247 (a Nigerian gambling website) had suffered a data breach. Suddenly, he had their attention. And they weren't happy.

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