Pierluigi Paganini
July 18, 2021
Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed “Security Checkup” to help users to recover their accounts that have been compromised. Good news for the owners of Instagram accounts that may have been compromised, the company launched a new feature named ‘Security Checkup‘ feature that aims to keep accounts safe and help users to recover them. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 13, 2021
NetBlocks reported partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to protest the government. Security experts from NetBlocks are observing partial disruption to social media and messaging platforms in Cuba from 12 July 2021 shortly after Cubans went to the streets to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
July 01, 2021
About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online, it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. Hours ago, a 68MB JSON database containing LinkedIn data recently collected from 88,000 US business owners was shared on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 29, 2021
A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, the leak reportedly exposes the data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users. A new massive LinkedIn breach made the headlines, a database containing data of 700M users, more than 92% of the total 756M users, is available for sale on forums on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 10, 2021
WhatsApp will not deactivate the accounts of users who don’t accept the new privacy policy update that requires sharing data with other companies owned by Facebook. WhatsApp on Friday announced that it will not deactivate accounts of users who don’t accept its new privacy policy that will be rolled out on May 15. The company will only […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 20, 2021
Researchers from security firm Group-IB have detected a large-scale scam campaign targeting Facebook Messenger users all over the world. Group-IB has detected a large-scale scam campaign targeting Facebook Messenger users all over the world. Group-IB Digital Risk Protection (DRP) analysts have found evidence proving that users in over 80 countries in Europe, Asia, the MEA region, North […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 06, 2021
Security researcher implemented a service to verify if your mobile number is included in the recent Facebook data leak. Security researcher Yaser Alosefer developed a new tool to help users to determine if their mobile numbers are included within the recent Facebook data leak that impacted 553 million users of the social networking giant. The […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 05, 2021
You can check if your personal information is included in the Facebook data leak by querying the data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned. The news of the availability on a hacking forum of the personal information for 533,313,128 Facebook users made the headlines. The availability of the data was first reported by Alon Gal, […]
Pierluigi Paganini
April 03, 2021
On April 3, a user has leaked the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users in a hacking forum for free online. Bad news for Facebook, a user in a hacking forum has published the phone numbers and personal data of 533 million Facebook users. The availability of the data was first […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 28, 2021
A critical flaw in the official Facebook for WordPress plugin could be abused exploited for remote code execution attacks. Researchers at Wordfence have discovered two vulnerabilities in the Facebook for WordPress plugin, which has more than 500,000 active installations. The plugin allows administrators to capture the actions people take while interacting with their page, such […]
