Danny Palmer reports: A new combination of two older types of malware, which provides hackers with access to almost everything a user does on an Android smartphone, is up for sale on underground forums for as little as $29.99 – providing even low-level cyber criminals with the ability to steal sensitive personal data. The ‘Rogue’…
DarkSide ransomware decryptor recovers victims’ files for free
Sergiu Gatlan reports: Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for the DarkSide ransomware to allow victims to recover their files without paying a ransom. DarkSide is a human-operated ransomware that has already earned millions in payouts since it started targeting enterprises in August 2020. The operation has seen a spike in activity between October and December 2020…
Parler Is Gone, But Hackers Say They Downloaded Everything First
David Gilbert reports: Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline in the early hours of Monday morning, but not before a hacker found a way to download all data posted by users — including messages, images, videos, and users’ location data — shared during last week’s attack on the Capitol. The data taken from Parler…
Ransom demanded after AKVA group victim of ransomware attack
SalmonBusiness reports: On Monday morning, it was announced that the aquaculture equipment manufacturer on Sunday was hit by an extensive cyber attack. AKVA group CEO Knut Nesse told the newspaper Dagens Næringsliv that the cyber attack was ransomware. This is malicious software that infects computer systems and displays messages demanding a fee to be paid in order for…
Chinese start-up leaked 400GB of scraped data exposing 200+ million Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn users
Jim Wilson of Safety Detectives reports: High-flying and rapidly growing Chinese social media management company Socialarks has suffered a huge data leak leading to the exposure of over 400GB of personal data including several high-profile celebrities and social media influencers. The company’s unsecured ElasticSearch database contained personally identifiable information (PII) from at least 214 million…
From the frying pan into the fire: Thai business angers hackers
DataBreaches.net seems to be the only site willing to report on certain breaches in Thailand these days. First it was the hack of Country Group Securities (CGSEC) by hackers calling themselves ALTDOS. And now this week, this site reported a second attack by the same threat actors that involved MONO Next Public Company. As previously…