Swati Khandelwal reports: A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127 million records originating from 8 other sites for sale on the dark web. Last week, The Hacker News received an email from a Pakistani hacker who…
Category: Business Sector
Artsy Alerts Users of Data-Security Breach; Report Claims Hacked Information for Sale
Alex Greenberg reports: In an email sent to its users on Wednesday evening, the chief technology officer of Artsy—an online platform that offers views into the art world as well as works for sale for prices between “$100 to over $1,000,000,” as its website states—alerted users to “a data security incident that may have impacted…
Chinese company leaves Muslim-tracking facial recognition database exposed online
Catalin Cimpanu reports: One of the facial recognition databases that the Chinese government is using to track the Uyghur Muslim population in the Xinjiang region has been left open on the internet for months, a Dutch security researcher told ZDNet. The database belongs to a Chinese company named SenseNets, which according to its website provides…
Coffee Meets Bagel notifies users of breach
One of a number of newly disclosed breaches reported by The Register this week was one involving 6 million users of a dating web site, Coffee Meets Bagel. The Register reported that 6,174,513 accounts were listed for sale for 0.13 BTC ($468) total on a dark web marketplace. DataBreaches.net’s investigation revealed that the market was…
GandCrab ransomware gang infects customers of remote IT support firms
Catalin Cimpanu reports: Hackers have used a two-year-old vulnerability in a software package used by remote IT support firms to gain a foothold on vulnerable networks and deploy the GandCrab ransomware on those companies’ customer workstations. At least one company has been hit already, according to a report on Reddit, confirmed by cyber-security firm Huntress…
AU: Phishers compromise Optus email accounts
Juha Saarinen reports: Beware malware-laden missives. Email filtering company Mailguard is warning about an active phishing campaign emanating from compromised email accounts hosted on Optus’ optusnet.com.au domain. The messages purport to be advice recipients of remittance advices, invoices and insurance documents that are available for download. Should users click on the links to the documents…