November 2022

French Electricity Provider Fined for Using Weak MD5 Algorithm to Store User Passwords

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The French data protection authority penalized Électricité de France €600,000 on Tuesday for failing to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union. The electric utility was accused of violating European law by retaining the passwords for more than 25,800 accounts and hashing them using the MD5 technique as recently as […]

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This Malicious App used Infected Devices to Create Phony Accounts across Multiple Platforms.

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The Google Play Store has been uncovered to be home to a malicious Android SMS software that secretly harvests text messages with the intention of opening accounts on numerous websites and services, including Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp. Over 100,000 people downloaded the Symoo app (com.vanjan.sms), which served as a relay for messages to be sent

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This Malware Steals Password & Crypto Using Browser Extensions

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It has been discovered that a well-known Windows information stealer by the name of ViperSoftX is used to spread a malicious extension for web browsers based on the Chromium operating system. Due to its standalone features that allow it to track website visits, steal login information and clipboard contents, and even swap cryptocurrency addresses via an

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Russian Server Revives Robin Banks’ Phishing Service for Cybercriminals

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The assault infrastructure of Robin Banks, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform, has been moved to DDoS-Guard, a Russian provider of secure hosting services. After “Cloudflare disassociated Robin Banks phishing infrastructure from its services, causing a multi-day disruption to operations,” according to a report from cybersecurity firm IronNet, the transfer was made. Since Cloudflare decided to blacklist

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U.S. Seizes Over 50K Bitcoin Worth $3.3 Billion Linked to Silk Road Dark Web

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In November 2021, 50,676 Bitcoin that had been taken in the 2012 attack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web bazaar were seized, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), which announced the seizure on Monday. When it was uncovered last year, the bitcoin, which was acquired in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion,

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Dropbox Gets Hacked

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File hosting service Dropbox on Tuesday disclosed that it was the victim of a phishing campaign that allowed unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. “These repositories included our own copies of third-party libraries slightly modified for use by Dropbox, internal prototypes, and some tools and

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