Smartphone Discounts Set To Rocket As Market Slumps

By Owais Sultan In the US, there was a drop in sales of 19% as people stayed on their phones for longer. Globally, smartphone sales are down from 488 million units to 429 million units. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smartphone Discounts Set To Rocket As Market Slumps...

Meta Fined €265 million in Facebook Data Scraping Case in the EU

By Habiba Rashid The incident led to the publication of data on Irish police, sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists, and others, leading to a spike in scam calls and texts in Ireland. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Meta Fined €265 million in Facebo...

Step-by-Step Security Guide for WordPress

By Waqas The most prominent CMS today is WordPress which is being used by over 455 million across the globe. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Step-by-Step Security Guide for WordPress...

Blockchain Power Binance Football Fever 2022 to Offer Fans $1 Million in Reward

By Deeba Ahmed FIFA World Cup is about to happen, and football fever has already taken the world hostage. Binance isn’t… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Blockchain Power Binance Football Fever 2022 to Offer Fans $1 Million in Reward...

OldGremlin Ransomware Targeted Over a Dozen Russian Entities in Multi-Million Scheme

A Russian-speaking ransomware group dubbed OldGremlin has been attributed to 16 malicious campaigns aimed at entities operating in the transcontinental Eurasian nation over the course of two and a half years. "The group's victims include companies in sectors such as logistics, industry, insurance...

Friday Squid Blogging: Emotional Support Squid

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has a video--"2 Hours Of Squid To Relax/Study/Work To"--with 2.4 million views. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I havent covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

CVE-2022-36782

Pal Electronics Systems - Pal Gate Authorization Errors. The vulnerability is an authorization problem in PalGate device management android client app. Gates of bulidings and parking lots with a simple button in any smartphone. The API was found after a decompiling and static research using Jadx,...

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in WordPress BackupBuddy Plugin in ~5 Million Attempts

A zero-day flaw in a WordPress plugin called BackupBuddy is being actively exploited, WordPress security company Wordfence has disclosed. "This vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated users to download arbitrary files from the affected site which can include sensitive information," it...

The Lessons to Learn from Nomad Crypto Hack

By Owais Sultan Nomad Crypto incident was reported in August 2022 in which $190 million were stolen in a series of hacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: The Lessons to Learn from Nomad Crypto Hack...

Google Cloud Blocks Record DDoS attack of 46 Million Requests Per Second

Google's cloud division on Thursday disclosed it mitigated a series of HTTPS distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks which peaked at 46 million requests per second RPS, making it the largest such DDoS offensive recorded to date. The attack, which occurred on June 1, 2022, targeting an unnamed...

U.S. Government Offers $10 Million Reward for Information on Conti Ransomware Gang

The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced a $10 million reward for information related to five individuals associated with the Conti ransomware group. The reward offer is also notable for the fact that it marks the first time the face of a Conti associate, known as "Target," has been...

Chinese Adult Site Leaking 14 Million User Details – and It’s Increasing!

By Waqas So far, the platform has leaked more than 14 million user accounts with more than 24 GB worth… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese Adult Site Leaking 14 Million User Details - and Its Increasing!...

Neopets Suffers Second Data Breach as 69 Million Accounts are Stolen

By Waqas Neopets has acknowledged the data breach and currently urging users to change their passwords immediately. Neopets is a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Neopets Suffers Second Data Breach as 69 Million Accounts are Stolen...

Insecure password leads to Mangatoon data breach

The hugely popular Manga comics platform Mangatoon has fallen victim to a data breach. No fewer than 23 million user accounts could be at risk, thanks to a poorly secured database. Worse still, Mangatoon doesnt seem to be responding to messages from the breacher, or people notifying it that the...

Scammer Who Used Info of Riot Games’ Co-Founder to Mine Crypto is Jailed

By Deeba Ahmed The Singaporean identity fraud scammer also tricked Google and Amazon Web Services AWS into providing $5.4 million worth… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammer Who Used Info of Riot Games Co-Founder to Mine Crypto is Jailed...

Hackers Exploit Harmony’s Horizon Blockchain Bridge to Steal $100 Million

By Deeba Ahmed The main bridge of layer-1 blockchain between Binance Chain, Ethereum, and Bitcoin was exploited, but the BTC bridge… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Exploit Harmony’s Horizon Blockchain Bridge to Steal $100 Million...

DuckDuckGo Isn’t as Private as You Think

Plus: A $150 million Twitter fine, a massive leak from a Chinese prison in Xinjiang, and an ISIS plot to assassinate George W. Bush...

GHSA-CXQW-VJCR-GP5G Excessive memory allocation in graph URLs leads to denial of service in Jenkins

Jenkins renders several different graphs for features like agent and label usage statistics, memory usage, or various plugin-provided statistics. Jenkins 2.274 and earlier, LTS 2.263.1 and earlier does not limit the graph size provided as query parameters. This allows attackers to request or to...

GHSA-WG33-X934-3GHH jwcrypto lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism

The Rsa15 class in the RSA 1.5 algorithm implementation in jwa.py in jwcrypto before 0.3.2 lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a Million Message Attack MMA...

jwcrypto lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism

The Rsa15 class in the RSA 1.5 algorithm implementation in jwa.py in jwcrypto before 0.3.2 lacks the Random Filling protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain cleartext data via a Million Message Attack MMA...