Catalin Cimpanu reports: Daniel’s Hosting (DH), the largest free web hosting provider for dark web services, has shut down today after getting hacked for the second time in 16 months, ZDNet has learned. Almost 7,600 dark web portals have been taken offline following the hack, during which an attacker deleted the web hosting portal’s entire database….
Category: Hack
Someone’s wiping out elastic searches and leaving a security firm’s name
Security researcher Bob Diachenko reported a disturbing finding yesterday: someone was wiping out public-facing elastic searches and leaving “NightlionSecurity.com” in their place: Looks like malicious actors now using @vinnytroia‘s company name in another wave of Elasticsearch automated attacks in an attempt to compromise him. https://t.co/6msI0aKLfa pic.twitter.com/Y1DQ1iCzBG — Bob Diachenko (@MayhemDayOne) March 25, 2020 By this…
Hacker selling data of 538 million Weibo users
Catalin Cimpanu reports: The personal details of more than 538 million users of Chinese social network Weibo are currently available for sale online, according to ads seen by ZDNet and corroborating reports from Chinese media. In ads posted on the dark web and other places, a hacker claims to have breached Weibo in mid-2019 and…
TQL faces lawsuit over data breach
Clarissa Hawes reports an update to a previously reported breach: A trucking company has filed a lawsuit against Total Quality Logistics (TQL) over its recent data breach, alleging the company was negligent after hackers attacked its computer systems in February. Owner Charles Newman, whose trucking company is not named in the filing, claims TQL, headquartered…
Ransomware attackers pledge to back off attacking medical entities during pandemic
“We’re all in this together” took on new meaning yesterday when a ransomware gang published a statement saying that they were offering their victims (whom they refer to as “partners”) discounts. And in response to an inquiry by Lawrence Abrams of Bleeping Computer, Maze Team also committed to not attacking medical entities during this pandemic…
Australia data breach: 90,000 staff, students, suppliers impacted at Melbourne Polytechnic
Adam Bannister reports: UPDATED A higher education institution in Victoria, Australia, has disclosed a data breach impacting the personal data of around 90,000 staff, students, and suppliers. In a security alert issued yesterday (March 11), Melbourne Polytechnic said Victoria Police had notified them that an individual who attended the campus in late 2018 had “obtained unauthorised access to…