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
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
European authorities have put an end to the most dangerous malware in the world
Law enforcement agencies in eight countries have put a definitive end to the operation of Emotet, the most well-known malware in Windows, as it has counted several victims over the past decade. The malware worked with botnet and ransomware attacks as it collected data via email. “Emotet acted as a
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.
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
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