Bill Toulis reports: The “MalwareHunter” research team has discovered a malicious process that turns the Discord chat app client into a password stealer. The threat actor who is engaging in this campaign is deploying a custom spin of the “AnarchyGrabber” Trojan, which is capable of stealing passwords, disabling two-factor authentication, and even spreading over the…
Hacker Selling 80,000 Users’ Data Stolen From Cryptocurrency Wallets
IANS reports: A hacker who was behind the cyber attack on Ethereum.org is now selling data tied to key cryptocurrency wallets like Keepkey, Trezor, Ledger and online investment platform Bnktothefuture. The hacker has three large databases with information pertaining to at least 80,000 customers. This includes the customer’s email address, name, phone number, residential address…
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools e-mail hacked by Rick-Rollers
Shawn Krest reports: The email system for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools was used to send a prank email to all Chapel Hill-Carrboro students and staff members on Wednesday. The school confirmed the attack in an email Wednesday evening. “Someone hacked our district email account and sent a phony message to all staff and students,” the…
Trump’s Press Secretary Appears to Have Exposed President’s Banking Information
Daniel Politi reports: During a briefing on Friday, Donald Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, wanted to tell a feel-good story of where the president had decided to donate his salary this quarter. So she held up the $100,000 check that she said Trump would donate to the Department of Health and Human Services to “support…
Twitter and WhatsApp could face EU data privacy sanctions
The National reports: Twitter and Facebook’s WhatsApp are in the firing line as Europe’s leading privacy watchdog for US tech giants edges closer to delivering its first major sanctions under the region’s tough data-protection rules. The Irish Data Protection Commission said on May 22 that it finalised a draft decision linked to a data breach…
Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack
Lawrence Abrams reports: Online education site EduCBA has started notifying customers that they are resetting their passwords after suffering a data breach. EduCBA is an online education site based out of India that offers over 2,500 online courses and job oriented learning programs focus on finance, technology, and business to their 500,000 learners. Yesterday, EduCBA began…