Pierluigi Paganini
February 19, 2019
Gnosticplayers hacker is offering in a third round a new set of databases containing millions of hacked accounts from unreported data breaches. Last week, the hacker who goes by online with the moniker Gnosticplayers disclosed the existence of some massive unreported data breaches in two rounds. The experts offered for sale the huge trove of data for […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 16, 2019
A new batch of 127 million records appears in the dark web, this time the huge trove of data appears to be originated from eight companies. A hacker that goes online with the moniker ‘gnosticplayers‘ is offering for sale the data on the Dream Market marketplace asking $14,500 worth of Bitcoin. Early this week, the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 15, 2019
The week closes with the news of another embarrassing data breach, the Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed a hack on Valentine’s Day. The dating app Coffee Meets Bagel confirmed that hackers breached its systems on Valentine’s Day and may have obtained access to users’ account data. The company notified the incident to account holders, the intrusion […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 12, 2019
620 million accounts stolen from 16 hacked websites (Dubsmash, Armor Games, 500px, Whitepages, ShareThis) available for sale on the dark web The Register revealed in exclusive that some 617 million online account details stolen from 16 hacked websites are available for sale on the dark web. The advertising for the sale of the huge trove […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 11, 2019
Google has released a new extension for Chrome dubbed Password Checkup that will alert users if their username/password combinations were leaked online as part of a dump after a data breach. Last week Google released Password Checkup a Chrome extension that warns users about compromised logins every time they will enter login credentials on a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 10, 2019
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal 20% discount Kindle Edition Paper Copy Once again thank you! Can Enterprises execute a GRC Movement? Experts observed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 08, 2019
Australia’s parliament confirmed that is investigating a suspicious security incident that affected its computer network. Australia announced an ongoing investigation on unspecified ‘security incident’ in the federal parliament’s computer network. “Following a security incident on the parliamentary computing network, a number of measures have been implemented to protect the network and its users,” parliamentary authorities […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 04, 2019
Researchers at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have identified the hacker who amassed credentials in Collection #1 archive. Security experts at the threat intel firm Recorded Future, have discovered the hacker who allegedly created and offered for sale the massive collection known as Collection #1. The âCollection #1â archive was discovered by the cyber security […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 02, 2019
The home remodeling and design platform Houzz informed customers that it suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. The popular home design platform Houzz has suffered a data breach that exposed some personal information. Houzz has over 40 million monthly unique users, at the time is not clear how many individuals are affected. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 01, 2019
Another data breach made the headlines, this time the victim is the State Bank of India that left a database containing personal information exposed online. The State Bank of India that left a database containing personal information exposed online. The discovery was made by an anonymous security researcher that has found a server used for […]
