Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai reports: A company that sells spyware to consumers specifically and openly marketing its product to domestic abusers got hacked. The hacker, who only goes by the initials L.M., told Motherboard in February that he gained access to the servers of TheTruthSpy, a company that sells an Android and iOS spy app to consumers,….
Month: August 2018
Fiserv Flaw Exposed Customer Data at Hundreds of Banks
Brian Krebs reports: Fiserv, Inc., a major provider of technology services to financial institutions, just fixed a glaring weakness in its Web platform that exposed personal and financial details of countless customers across hundreds of bank Web sites, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Brookfield, Wisc.-based Fiserv [NASDAQ:FISV] is a Fortune 500 company with 24,000 employees and $5.7…
It was all going so well until….. it wasn’t.
So the server you use to share files with clients got infected with ransomware and you paid the attackers to get the decryption key and recover seems to be going pretty well – you’re able to decrypt the data without any impact on the services you provide to clients…. and then, three days later, you…
Leaked data from Chinese hotel chain may affect 130 million customers
Nicole Jao reports: Personal data and booking information from 13 hotels operated by Huazhu Hotels Group (华住酒店集团) has reportedly been leaked in what could be the largest data breach in China in five years, according to Chinese cybersecurity media FreeBuf (in Chinese). This morning, a post on a Chinese dark web forum titled “Huazhu-owned hotels…
Fortnite fury over how Google handled its security hole
Graham Cluley writes: It feels like only yesterday that we were all talking about how Epic Games was putting Android users at risk by refusing to put its hit game Fortnite into the Google Play store, and instead recommending players disable a security setting to install it. It wasn’t yesterday though. It was about three…
Hacked: User Data Leaked From Brazilian Crypto Arbitrage Platform, Funds Reportedly Safe
Omar Faridi reports: Brazilian ‘arbitrage’ firm Atlas has reportedly been hacked and the email addresses belonging to its over 264,000 users have been leaked. The company’s users’ phone numbers and the amount of cryptocurrency they have deposited on the platform have also now been shared publicly by the hacker(s). According to a Youtube video posted…