hacking

Grubhub says hack on third-party exposed information on campus customers

The delivery service Grubhub said a hacker stole personal data and partial payment card information from customers through a third-party contractor. In a statement published on Monday evening, the company said it recently identified a security incident that “originated with an account belonging to a third-party service provider that provided support services to Grubhub.” The […]

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New LightSpy Spyware Version Targets iPhones with Increased Surveillance Tactics

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an improved version of an Apple iOS spyware called LightSpy that not only expands on its functionality, but also incorporates destructive capabilities to prevent the compromised device from booting up. “While the iOS implant delivery method closely mirrors that of the macOS version, the post-exploitation and privilege escalation stages differ significantly

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INTERPOL Arrests 8 in Major Phishing and Romance Fraud Crackdown in West Africa

INTERPOL has announced the arrest of eight individuals in Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria as part of a crackdown on phishing scams and romance cyber fraud. Dubbed Operation Contender 2.0, the initiative is designed to tackle cyber-enabled crimes in West Africa, the agency said. One such threat involved a large-scale phishing scam targeting Swiss citizens that resulted in

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Ticketmaster Data Breach May Affect More Than 500 Million Customers. What to Know

Ticketmaster, a subsidiary of Live Nation, suffered a data breach, which may impact millions of customers. Live Nation confirmed in a regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that its subsidiary Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. The filing stated that on May 20, the company noticed “unauthorized activity” within a database

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The Post Millennial hack leaked data impacting 26 million people

Have I Been Pwned has added the information for 26,818,266 people whose data was leaked in a recent hack of The Post Millennial conservative news website. The Post Millennial is a conservative Canadian online news magazine belonging to the Human Events Media Group, which also operates the American ‘Human Events’ news platform. Earlier this month, both news platforms were hacked,

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Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November

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New ransomware encrypts files, then steals your Discord account

The new ‘AXLocker’ ransomware family is not only encrypting victims’ files and demanding a ransom payment but also stealing the Discord accounts of infected users. When a user logs into Discord with their credentials, the platform sends back a user authentication token saved on the computer. This token can then be used to log in

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WiFi routers

Nine WiFi routers used by millions were vulnerable to 226 flaws

Security researchers analyzed nine popular WiFi routers and found a total of 226 potential vulnerabilities in them, even when running the latest firmware. The tested routers are made by Asus, AVM, D-Link, Netgear, Edimax, TP-Link, Synology, and Linksys, and are used by millions of people. The front-runners in terms of the number of vulnerabilities are

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Hackers deploy Linux malware, web skimmer on e-commerce servers

Security researchers discovered that attackers are also deploying a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after injecting a credit card skimmer into online shops’ websites. The PHP-coded web skimmer (a script designed to steal and exfiltrate customers’ payment and personal info) is added and camouflaged as a .JPG image file in the /app/design/frontend/ folder. The

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