ANCHORAGE – The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 48 internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against six defendants who allegedly oversaw computer attack platforms commonly called “booter” services. The FBI is now in the process of seizing the websites that allowed paying…
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FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
Brian Krebs reports: InfraGard, a program run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. Meanwhile, the hackers responsible are communicating directly…
Iranians Hacked Security Footage of Jerusalem Bombing
Pesach Benson reports: The Israeli Military Censor on Thursday cleared for publication that Iranian hackers managed to obtain security footage of Wednesday’s Jerusalem terror attack and post it online. Further details about the hack remain under a gag order. The footage was posted on the Telegram account of a hacker group called Moses’ Staff on…
Hacker breaks into Zwijndrecht police server (updated)
The Brussels Times reports: A hacker broke into the server of the Zwijndrecht police zone and leaked thousands of license plates, fines and even police reports, VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported on Thursday this evening. […] VTM Nieuws and Het Laatste Nieuws reported that the hacker was able to see all data from…
WhatsApp data leak: 500 million user records for sale; is it really a leak?
Jurgita Lapienytė reports: On November 16, an actor posted an ad on a well-known hacking community forum, claiming they were selling a 2022 database of 487 million WhatsApp user mobile numbers. The dataset allegedly contains WhatsApp user data from 84 countries. Threat actor claims there are over 32 million US user records included. Another huge…
The LinkedIn-HiQ Labs Case and Data Scraping in the US: Some Takeaways
Odia Kagan of Fox Rothschild writes: What does the summary judgment granted to Linkedin in the famous Linkedin-HiQ Labs case teach us about data scraping in the US? Here are some of my thoughts on what the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruling means. Bottom line: Summary judgment was granted to…