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International Police Have Taken Cybercrime Gang Lockbit’s Website
In a collaboration between several major police forces worldwide, the website for ransomware group LockBit has been taken and disrupted the operations of one of the worlds largest cybercrime groups. LockBit Website Taken As reported by cyberscoop.com, the LockBit website has been seized by the UK’s National Crime Agency in…
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Microsoft Denies Claim of Data Breach That Affects 30 Million Accounts
Microsoft has recently denied claims that a hacking group had breached their servers and stolen the credentials of 30 million customer accounts. Microsoft Denies Data Breach Claims As reported by BleepingComputer, a supposed hacktivist group named “Anonymous Sudan” claims to have breached Microsoft’s servers and stolen the credentials for 30…
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Western Digital Hackers Claim Over 10TB of Data From The Company
A few weeks ago Western Digital fell victim to a network breach which as of today still remains unresolved though now the hackers have come forward with claims of what they have achieved. Hackers Claim Stolen Data Western Digital’s breach is still an ongoing matter and recently one of the…
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New Vulnerabilities Found in TPM 2.0 Library
A pair of new vulnerabilities have been found within the TPM 2.0 Library by a cybersecurity company by the name of Quarkslab. These vulnerabilities have the potential to be a threat to billions of devices What Are the Vulnerabilities? These vulnerabilities involve the Trusted Platform Module, TPM for short, which…
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PayPal is Sending Out Data Breach Notifications to Thousands of Users!
Data breaches are, somewhat unfortunately, a relatively common thing now in the online world. When it comes to something like PayPal, however, this clearly raises alarm bells as it not only involves people’s money but also what is arguably one of the most convenient payment methods around. If you are,…
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Capcom Confirms Masses of Compromised Data
A little over a week ago, we reported that unconfirmed information strongly hinted that Capcom had just been just been hit by a huge ransomware attack. Now, at the time, while Capcom had confirmed that something had happened, they were a little reluctant to go into detail. Well, following an…
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Tesla Reports a Bizarre Thwarted Ransomware Attack
While ransomware attacks are a fairly substantial problem for just the average PC user, I think we can all appreciate just how much more devastating this can potentially be for big businesses. For example, back in late 2017, the NHS saw a huge cyber attack that resulted in a lot…
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Intel Rocked by Huge 20GB Data Breach
No company is ever happy when a major data breach occurs. Not only from the point of view of it potentially revealing any plans they have in the pipeline, but also the fact that it may contain information that, in the wrong hands, could prove very devastating. Yesterday afternoon, however,…
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Was America Just Hit With a Huge DDOS Attack?
There are always groups around the world looking to push the limits of online security systems. Unfortunately, in many cases, some of these organizations are government backed allowing them to effectively make it a full-time 24/7 occupation. It seems, however, that overnight America may have been subjected to one of…
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UK Forensics Firm Confirm Paying Cyber-Attack Ransom
Forensics Firm Confirm Ransomware Payment In 2017 we saw a huge rise in the number of ransomware attacks. If you’re not aware of that these are, basically it’s malware that gets onto your system (usually via an e-mail attachment you downloaded) that effectively encrypts all of your documents. The next…
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Hacker Sentenced To Over Two Years in Jail for DDoS Attacks
Hacker Given 27 Months In Prison Now, I don’t profess to be an expert on the prison system, but I imagine that as you enter your cell and your big burly cellmate asks you gruffly ‘what are you in for?’ responding with ‘hacking servers’ isn’t going to win you much…
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Hundreds of Git Code Accounts are Hacked for Ransom
Git Coders Face Ransom If you are a coder working in a team, then the chances are that all your work and data is stored within some form of Git repository. This allows all users to access the ‘source‘ data to ensure (in very basic terms) that everyone working on…
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Hackers Attack ASUS Live Update Planting Malware
Update! Following the article below, Kaspersky Labs have released a tool to help users identify if they have been affected by the malware. You can learn more by visiting the website here! ASUS Live Update If you own ASUS technology, be it on a PC or (more likely) laptop, then…
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US Politician Revealed to be Member of Hacking Group
Beto O’Rourke and the ‘Cult of the Dead Cow’ Over the weekend, Reuters published a profile piece of 2020 US Presidential Candidate Beto O’Rourke. With all the information inside the article, one fact notably stands out among the rest. And that is O’Rourke’s membership to the hacking group ‘Cult of…
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Software Pirates Are Hijacking Apple App Store Programs
App Store Pirates Anyone who owns an iPhone will know that the Apple App Store literally has thousands of programs you can download to your smartphone. While some are free, others come with either an initial price tag of subscription price wall. It seems, however, that a group of software…
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