EU sanctions hackers from China, Russia, North Korea who're wanted by the FBI

The Council of the European Union has imposed its first-ever sanctions against persons or entities involved in various cyber-attacks targeting European citizens, and its member states. The directive has been issued against six individuals and three entities responsible for or involved in various...

citizensadvice.org.gg Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1209180

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

How an Elaborate North Korean Crypto Heist Fell Apart

Two Chinese citizens have been accused of running an intricate money-laundering scheme—involving more than $100 million in cryptocurrency...

Information leakage vulnerability with the application of the Citizen Cloud App

With the application of the Citizen Cloud APP is a life service platform designed for Shanghai citizens. There is an information leakage vulnerability in the APP, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain the user's corresponding ID card information...

China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout

Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation...

DHS Rolls Back Facial-Recognition Expansion Plan

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has reconsidered a plan to use facial-recognition technology on all U.S. citizens traveling internationally through airports, deciding to roll back the plan after meeting with privacy experts. Last week the DHS said it would expand facial recognition checks...

DHS Plans to Expand Facial Recognition Border Checks

The Department of Homeland Security plans to extend facial recognition checks to all travelers entering and leaving the U.S. – including previously-exempt U.S. citizens. The proposed ruling, outlined in a recent filing that was first reported this week by TechCrunch, signifies a rapid expansion o...

How Iran's Government Shut Off the Internet

After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens...

Hacker Stole Data of Over 70% Bulgarian Citizens from Tax Agency Servers

Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people. According to multiple sources in local Bulgarian media, an unknown hacker earlier...

ViceLeaker Android malware steals call recordings, photos, videos & texts

By Waqas Israeli Citizens are the Primary Target of New Android Mobile Spying Campaign Using ViceLeaker Malware, says Kaspersky. Kaspersky Lab researchers discovered an Android malware campaign active since 2016 and still going strong. Dubbed ViceLeaker; researchers claim that it is the product o...

Person in Latex Mask Impersonated French Minister

Forget deep fakes. Someone wearing a latex mask fooled people on video calls for a period of two years, successfully scamming 80 million euros from rich French citizens...

ViceLeaker Operation: mobile espionage targeting Middle East

In May 2018, we discovered a campaign targeting dozens of mobile Android devices belonging to Israeli citizens. Kaspersky spyware sensors caught the signal of an attack from the device of one of the victims; and a hash of the APK involved Android application was tagged in our sample feed for...

Max Schrems: lawyer, regulator, international man of privacy

Almost one decade ago, disparate efforts began in the European Union to change the way the world thinks about online privacy. One effort focused on legislation, pulling together lawmakers from 28 member-states to discuss, draft, and deploy a sweeping set of provisions that, today, has altered how...

Almost Half A Million Delhi Citizens' Personal Data Exposed Online

Exclusive — A security researcher has identified an unsecured server that was leaking detailed personal details of nearly half a million Indian citizens... thanks to another MongoDB database instance that company left unprotected on the Internet accessible to anyone without password. In a report...

Over 202 Million Chinese Job Seekers' Details Exposed On the Internet

Cybersecurity researcher has discovered online a massive database containing records of more than 202 million Chinese citizens that remained accessible to anyone on the Internet without authentication until last week. The unprotected 854.8 gigabytes of the database was stored in an instance of...

Personal & banking data of 120 million Brazilians leaked online

By Carolina The Cadastro de Pessoas Físicas CPFs is a taxpayer registry identification for Brazilians - In this case, 120 million CPFs were exposed online. The IT security researchers at InfoArmor's Advanced Threat Intelligence team discovered a treasure trove of personal sensitive data belonging...

citizens-bank.com Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-677615 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| citizens-bank.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...

‘Domestic Kitten’ Mobile Spyware Campaign Aims at Iranian Targets

A mobile spyware campaign against mainly Iranian citizens has been spotted – with evidence that the Iranian government might be involved. The operation is dubbed Domestic Kitten by Check Point researchers — “kitten” to follow common APT nomenclature for Iranian groups and “domestic” because they...

The final compliance countdown: Are you ready for GDPR?

On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR will replace the Data Protection Directive as the new standard on data privacy for all organizations that do business with European Union EU citizens.1When GDPR goes into effect, government agencies and organizations that control, maintain, o...

citizensadvicebroxbourne.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-591569 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| citizensadvicebroxbourne.org Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...