Bradley Barth reports: A malicious actor known as Shiny Hunters has emerged as a serious dark web player following a spate of high-profile breaches, and now the hacker or hackers is claiming to have stolen data from Microsoft’s private GitHub repositories and is threatening to release the code for free. According to researchers from ZeroFOX Alpha Team,…
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Russian Hackers Accessed Emails From Merkel’s Constituency Office: Der Spiegel
Reuters reports: Russia’s GRU military intelligence service appears to have got hold of many emails from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s constituency office in a 2015 hack attack on Germany’s parliament, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, without citing its sources. Read more on Reuters.
Jump in vulnerable RDP ports is leaving networks open to hacking and cyberattacks
The sudden explosion of employees working from home (WFH) during the pandemic has increased the risk of cyberattacks. Among the factors contributing to that increased risk: people may use their own less secure personal devices which may also be shared with other members of their household, and they may need to be connecting to the…
Hacker group selling databases with millions of user credentials busted in Poland and Switzerland
Polish and Swiss law enforcement authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, dismantled InfinityBlack, a hacking group involved in distributing stolen user credentials, creating and distributing malware and hacking tools, and fraud. On 29 April 2020, the Polish National Police (Policja) searched six locations in five Polish regions and arrested five individuals believed to be members…
Class-action lawsuit dismissed against Laurentian University hacker
Sudbury.com reports: A class-action lawsuit has been dismissed against a former Laurentian University student who pleaded guilty in 2019 to mischief charges after he hacked into the school’s computer system. LU computer science grad Spencer Brydges and the university were named in a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of certain Laurentian students and staff members….
(Updated) Hacker sells 22 million Unacademy user records after data breach; Unacademy confirms 11 million compromised
Lawrence Abrams reports: Online learning platform Unacademy has suffered a data breach after a hacker gained access to their database and started selling the account information for close to 22 million users. Unacademy is one of India’s largest online learning platforms boasting 14K teachers, over a million video lessons, and over 20 million registered users (learners)….