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Indian Brokerage Firm Upstox Suffers Data Breach Leaking 2.5 Millions Users' Data
Online trading and discount brokerage platform Upstox has become the latest Indian company to suffer a security breach of its systems, resulting in the exposure of sensitive information of approximately 2.5 million users on the dark web. The leaked information includes names, email addresses, dat...
How bitcoin payments unmasked a man who hired a Dark Web contract killer
An Italian citizens apparent attempt to hire a hitman on the Dark Web has been undone by clever analysis of his Bitcoin transactions. The man, who is reported to be an IT worker employed by a major corporation, is alleged to have paid the hitman to assassinate his former girlfriend. What happened...
Ragnarok Ransomware Hits Boggi Milano Menswear
Luxury Italian men’s clothing line Boggi Milano has confirmed what Ragnarok was already bragging about on the Dark Web: The brand was hit with a ransomware attack, according to multiple sources. Ragnarok and Boggi Milano representatives who spoke to Bloomberg agree on the facts; the ransomware...
DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar ,...
DeepDotWeb Admin Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday said that an Israeli national pleaded guilty for his role as an "administrator" of a portal called DeepDotWeb DDW, a "news" website that "served as a gateway to numerous dark web marketplaces." According to the unsealed court documents, Tal Prihar,...
How to Vaccinate Against the Poor Password Policy Pandemic
Data breaches remain a constant threat, and no industry or organization is immune from the risks. From Fortune 500 companies to startups, password-related breaches continue to spread seemingly unchecked. As a result of the volume of data breaches and cybersecurity incidents, hackers now have acce...
MobiKwik Suffers Major Breach — KYC Data of 3.5 Million Users Exposed
Popular Indian mobile payments service MobiKwik on Monday came under fire after 8.2 terabytes TB of data belonging to millions of its users began circulating on the dark web in the aftermath of a major data breach that came to light earlier this month. The leaked data includes sensitive personal...
The Dark Web Is Teeming With Vaccine Listings Right Now
Vendors are cashing in on people desperate to leapfrog the line—or falsely certify that they got the shot...
Black Kingdom Ransomware Hunting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers
More than a week after Microsoft released a one-click mitigation tool to mitigate cyberattacks targeting on-premises Exchange servers, the company disclosed that patches have been applied to 92% of all internet-facing servers affected by the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. The development, a 43%...
SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web
By Deeba Ahmed Between 2016 and 2017, "MillionaireMike" bought names, birth dates, and SSN from the Dark Web to create fake accounts for insider trading. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SpaceX employee admits security fraud, insider trading on dark web...
A SpaceX Engineer's Dark Web Insider Trading Sparks SEC First
“MillionaireMike” allegedly ran a stock tip scam that earned him $27,000 in bitcoin payments...
Dark Web Markets for Stolen Data See Banner Sales
Despite an explosion in the sheer amount of stolen data available on the Dark Web, the value of personal information is holding steady, according to the 2021 Dark Web price index from Privacy Affairs. That leaves these thriving dirty data dealers in a familiar predicament — they need to lock down...
Cyberattackers Target Top Russian Cybercrime Forums
Maza, a place online for fraudsters and extorters to connect to pull off their operations, has been breached by an unknown attacker, in just the latest in a series of attacks targeting elite Russian-language cybercrime forums. Members are worried that their data is being used by researchers and l...
Researchers Unearth Links Between SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt Ransomware
SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research. "While the two ransomware families are operated by distinct different threat actors on...
Tax Season Ushers in Quickbooks Data-Theft Spike
Cybercriminals are ready for tax season with new malware designed to exfiltrate Quickbooks data and post it on the internet, according to a new report from ThreatLocker. Attackers use email to deliver the malware, which the ThreatLocker’s CEO Danny Jenkins told Threatpost is a simple, 15-line pie...
Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks
New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or othe...
Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release V1.20.108 made available yesterday. Brave...
Stolen Jones Day Law Firm Files Posted on Dark Web
The Clop ransomware group has reportedly started posting data on the Dark Web apparently stolen from law firm Jones Day, which represents many of the globe’s most powerful people, including former president Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But the attack had nothing to d...
Clop ransomware gang leaks Jones Day law firm data on dark web
By Deeba Ahmed A group of cybercriminals known for Clop ransomware operations leaked data stolen from the US-based law firm Jones Day on the Dark Web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Clop ransomware gang leaks Jones Day law firm data on dark web...