DW reports: Federal police say they have shut down the German servers for the darknet hub, which saw its sales skyrocket during the pandemic. Investigators said on Tuesday that they had shut down the German servers for Hydra, a Russian darknet marketplace that was used to sell drugs, forged documents, intercepted data, and other illegal digital services….
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Food Delivery Leak Unmasks Russian Security Agents
Russian tech giant Yandex has blamed one of its employees for the hacking and subsequent leak of data from Yandex Food, a popular food delivery service in Russia. Aric Toler reports: Among the many users affected are serving agents of Russia’s security services and military, who in several cases even ordered food to their places of…
Emma Sleep Company admits checkout Magecart attack
Paul Kunert reports: Emma Sleep Company has confirmed to The Reg that it suffered a Magecart attack which enabled ne’er-do-wells to skim customers’ credit or debit card data from its website. Customers were informed of the breach by the mattress maker via email in the past week, with the business saying it was “subject to a cyber…
An Interview with AgainstTheWest
They are anonymous, but they are not Anonymous. Meet the individuals who are using their skills to take on the West’s enemies. Names can be misleading. When I first read about a group called “AgainstTheWest,” I assumed they were working against the west. But while threat actors from Russia, China, Belarus, and North Korea attack…
Monetary penalties issued to Spanish telecoms over failure to protect consumers from sim swapping
Last year the Spanish DPA tackled sim swapping cases and issued monetary penalties to four telecoms for failure to adequately protect the confidential information of consumers, resulting in loss of service to consumers, but also leaving them victims or potential victims of bank fraud. Four decisions have now been posted on the EDPB website. The…
Vietnamese bank accounts targeted by hackers
An article in VietnamNet has some findings about cybercrime in Vietnam and how work-from-home and COVID-19 have contributed to the increase in certain kinds of crime. Some of the findings reported in the article include: In 2021, the number of phishing cases increased by three times compared with 2020. As many as 2,739 phishing websites…