DHNet reports (translation): Last weekend, the city of Seraing reported that its services were temporarily inaccessible to the public and for a reason beyond its control. Indeed, since the computer network of the city of Seraing was the victim of a malicious attack! A complaint has been filed. As specified to the city of Seraing,…
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New Russian Crypto Law – A Government Tool to Take Control Over the DarkWeb Market?
Anastasia Sentsova and Yelisey Boguslavskiy write: On January 1, 2021, the Russian authorities introduced a new law regulating cryptocurrencies. This law may be a manifestation of the Russian government’s desire to seek control over the DarkWeb markets and its ransomware sector that became extremely prolific over the past two years. The criminal business that runs…
Database Seller Strikes Again: Personal Data of 10 Million Malaysian Voters Could Be On The Line
Chief Chapree reports: Following the databases that were said to contain information about E-Pay Malaysia and Ifmal customers, there is a new listing that claimed to have 10 million Malaysian voters in its database. The listing took place last weekend on the same marketplace forum that featured the two previous databases. First reported by OMG Hackers, it was put…
Brazilian authorities start probe as 102 million consumers are exposed in new leak
Angelica Mari reports that Brazil’s data protection authority is opening an investigation into reports of a data security incident impacting 102 million mobile numbers, allegedly from two mobile operators — Vivo and Claro. The companies deny, however, that the data that are up for sale on the dark web are from them. This is the…
WeChat Data Leak Leads To Arrest Of Tencent Executive Zhang Feng
Cullen Paradis reports: Zhang Feng, an executive at China’s most valuable public company Tencent Holdings, has been detained by authorities in connection to a data leak and corruption scandal. According to the Wall Street Journal, Zhang is accused of sending user data from the messaging app juggernaut WeChat to Sun Lijun, the former vice public security minister now…
Made in India Koo app denies claims of data leak, talks about Chinese connection
Sneha Saha reports: Koo app or the so-called Indian alternative of Twitter is gaining wide popularity in the country as the battle between the Indian government and the microblogging site continues. The social media app has been downloaded by over three million Android users already, which is a big number for a Made in India…