Brazilian Hacker Indicted for Demanding $3.2M in Bitcoin After Hacking 300,000 Accounts

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A Brazilian national has been indicted in the United States for allegedly threatening to release data stolen during a hack of a company’s network in March 2020. Junior Barros De Oliveira, a 29-year-old from Curitiba, Brazil, faces four counts of making extortionate threats related to data obtained from protected computers and four counts of issuing […]

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Apple to Compensate Siri Users $20 Per Device in Privacy Violation Settlement

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Apple has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit for $95 million, addressing claims that its Siri voice assistant violated users’ privacy. The news was initially reported by Reuters. The settlement covers U.S.-based current or former owners of Siri-enabled devices who experienced unintentional Siri activations that led to the capture or sharing of private

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Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

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Meta Platforms, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million ($263 million) for a 2018 data breach that exposed the personal data of millions, including 3 million users in the EU. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) imposed the penalty, citing violations of GDPR privacy regulations, marking yet another significant

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Russian Airstrikes Recruit Ukrainian Children for Cyber Operations and Reconnaissance

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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU or SSU) has revealed a new spying operation that is believed to be carried out by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and entails enlisting Ukrainian children for illegal purposes under the pretence of “quest games.” According to law enforcement officials, it arrested two groups of FSB agents after conducting a

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Nigerian National Extradited to the U.S. for BEC Scheme

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Abiola Kayode, 37, of Nigeria, was extradited by the Department of Justice (DoJ) to face charges for allegedly taking part in a business email compromise (BEC) operation that defrauded companies out of over $6 million between January 2015 and September 2016. “Kayode’s co-conspirators posed as the chief executive officer, president, owner, or other executive of

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FBI Cracks Rydox Marketplace, Seizes $225,000 in Cryptocurrency, Stops 7,600 PII Sales

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The illegal marketplace Rydox (“rydox[.]ru” and “rydox[.]cc”), which sold stolen personal data, access devices, and other tools for committing fraud and cybercrime, was shut down, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) stated Thursday. Three Kosovo nationals and service administrators, Shpend Sokoli, Jetmir Kutleshi, and Ardit Kutleshi, have also been taken into custody. It is anticipated

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Iranian Hackers Deploy WezRat Malware to Attack Isreal

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A newly discovered remote access trojan and information stealer that Iranian state-sponsored attackers employ to survey compromised endpoints and carry out malicious orders has been made public by cybersecurity experts. The malware has been identified in the wild since at least September 1, 2023, according to artefacts posted to the VirusTotal website, and the cybersecurity

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Gorilla Botnet Launches Over 300,000 DDoS Attacks Across 100 Countries

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Researchers studying cybersecurity have uncovered a new type of botnet malware known as Gorilla (also known as GorillaBot), which takes its cues from the publicly available source code for the Mirai botnet. According to the cybersecurity company NSFOCUS, which discovered the activities last month, between September 4 and September 27, 2024, the botnet “issued over

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Telegram Agrees to Share Users IP Address & Phone Numbers With Authorities

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In an attempt to curb illicit activity on the network, the well-known messaging service Telegram has announced a significant policy reversal: in response to legitimate legal requests, it will provide users’ phone numbers and IP addresses to authorities. “We’ve made it clear that the IP addresses and phone numbers of those who violate our rules

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