Bob Mercer reports: A federal judge has sentenced Manaen Dean Matthews to prison for six and a half years for his role in a widespread data-theft scheme that included victims on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Viken of Rapid City said the 35-year-old Brooklyn, New York, man must…
New malware Xwo can swipe all your credentials at once
What Xwo Does Xwo is not your typical ransomware that holds your data hostage nor cryptocurrency miner that takes command of your processing power for its own devices. Instead it scans systems looking for saved credentials and exposed services. Everything it finds, it sends back to the control server. Xwo is not the thief stealing…
Hacker site’s incriminating database published online by rival group
Dan Goodin reports: Hackers from Raidforums recently breached the site of rival hacking forum Cracked.to and spilled data for more than 321,000 of its members. The hackers did so while some of their victims were discussing cracking Fortnite accounts, selling software exploits, and engaging in other potentially illegal activities. In all, the dump posted on…
Sweet Chat: Chinese ‘Tinder’ with 10M users, exposed chats and private photos
Darryl Burke wrote: Sweet Chat, an Android based chatting and photo sharing application with over 10 million users, has been exposing its users chat content, and photos on an unsecured server. By using common MQTT related tools anyone can view real-time, the chats and private photos of all online Sweet Chat users. Review of the…
Epic Games hit with class action suit over Fortnite security breach
James Brightman reports: Fortnite has been a wild ride for Epic Games and has taken the entire industry by storm. Its audience, however, may have gotten more than it bargained for when it learned at the start of the year that a massive security breach potentially exposed credit card data, personal information, and even voice…
SEC Investigating Data Leak at First American Financial Corp.
Brian Krebs has a follow-up to a previously reported vulnerability that exposed almost 900 million mortgage title-related documents: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating a security failure on the Web site of real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. that exposed more than 885 million personal and financial records tied…