Cybersecurity News

Washington – The data of 1.6 million citizens were exposed

A serious data breach has revealed that the Washington State Audit Office suffered after a leak of 1.6 million personal information of citizens for employment claims. The vulnerability in the system is found in a secure file transfer service of Accellion, according to the Washington State Audit Office (“SAO”), as

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Europol puts a “lock” in the largest illegal store of dark web

DarkMarket, the largest illegal store on the Dark Web, has “locked” by the police forces of many countries after their coordinated efforts. DarkMarket has more than 500,000 users, 2,400 sellers, and 320,000 transactions worth $ 171 million in cryptocurrencies and, according to Europol, is the largest illegal online store. The

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Dunant: Google’s new submarine cable

Google has launched its new submarine cable system called Dunant, which crosses the Atlantic Ocean between Virginia Beach in the US and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic coast. The new cable system offers record speeds of up to 250 terabits per second (Tbps) across the Atlantic and is 6400km long.

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Beware: New Matryosh DDoS Botnet Targeting Android-Based Devices

Android devices are targeting new malware for the purpose of conducting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The threat was found to reuse the Mirai botnet framework and spread it through exposed Android Debug Bridge (ADB) interfaces to infect Android devices and trap them on its network. The peculiarity of

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10$ Million Profits per Month have Hackers From DeFi

The 40% of all crypto hacks carried out in the first half of 2020 were targeted at Decentralized Financing Protocols (DeFi) and cryptocurrency exchanges, the company said in a report released by research firm Blockchain CipherTrace. DeFi are non-custodial financial products, many of which are new and easy prey for

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