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Weekly Update 441

Troy Hunt

Processing data breaches (especially big ones), can be extremely laborious. And so it was with the latest stealer logs, a corpus of data that took the better part of a month to process. And, of course, everyone commenting on them is an expert, so there's a heap of opinions out there.

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For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

Krebs on Security

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. In September 2014, U.S. In September 2014, U.S.

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Weekly Update 409

Troy Hunt

This week, the issue that really has me worked up is data breach victim notification or more specifically, lack thereof. Most, but not all; the corporate victims (and yes, companies who suffer data breaches are still victims themselves), rarely set individual victim notification as a priority.

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Stalkerware app pcTattletale announces it is ‘out of business’ after suffering data breach and website defacement

Graham Cluley

US spyware vendor pcTattletale has shut down its operations following a serious data breach that exposed sensitive information about its customers, as well as data stolen from some of their victims. pcTattletale was promoted as "employee and child monitoring software" designed to "protect your business and family."

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 501 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

warn of PRC-linked cyber espionage targeting telecom networks U.S. Hackers stole millions of dollars from Uganda Central Bank International Press Newsletter Cybercrime INTERPOL financial crime operation makes record 5,500 arrests, seizures worth over USD 400 million Hackers Stole $1.49

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Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm.

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Pegasus Project – how governments use Pegasus spyware against journalists

Security Affairs

Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware. Pegasus Project is the name of a large-scale investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets that revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s spyware.

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