More than 200 Android apps masquerading as fitness, photo editing, and puzzle apps have been observed distributing spyware called Facestealer to siphon user credentials and other valuable information. “Similar to Joker, another piece of mobile malware, Facestealer changes its code frequently, thus spawning many variants,” Trend Micro analysts Cifer Fang, Ford Quin, and Zhengyu Dong said in a new report. “Since its discovery, the spyware has continuously beleaguered Google Play.” Facestealer, first documented by Doctor Web in July 2021, refers to a group of fraudulent apps that invade the official app marketplace for Android with the...
The company’s transactional platforms were unavailable for a week following the incident in February. Brazilian e-commerce conglomerate Americanas.com reported a multimillion-dollar loss in sales in its financial results on Friday after a major cyberattack earlier this year. The company lost 923 million Brazilian reais ($183 million) in sales after two attacks that took place between February 19 and 20 and rendered its e-commerce operation unavailable. According to the company, physical stores continued to operate and the logistics arm of the company continued to deliver orders placed after the event....
OpRussia continues, less than a week after my last update Anonymous has hacked other Russian companies and leaked their data via DDoSecrets. The #OpRussia launched by Anonymous on Russia after the criminal invasion of Ukraine continues, the collective claims to have published more than 6 TB of Russian data via DDoSecrets. This is my update on the recent attack and associated data leaks via the DDoSecrets platform: Elektrocentromontazh is the largest the chief power organization of Russia, it designs, tests, builds, installs and maintains electrical equipment in power generation and...
To the surprise of many users, China‘s largest Twitter-esque microblogging website, Sina Weibo, announced on Thursday that it will publish users’ IP addresses and location data in an effort to keep their content honest and nice. In a post whose title translates as “IP Territorial Function Upgrade Announcement,” the company stated it was taking the action to protect users’ rights, and to make the service more pleasant to use. “In order to reduce undesirable behaviors such as impersonating parties, malicious rumors … as well as to ensure the authenticity and transparency...
Multinational companies around the world voluntarily pulled their business out of Russia after president Vladimir Putin launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, but the hacker group Anonymous is determined to give any stragglers a nudge. The hacktivist group recently leaked data, emails and passwords of food giant Nestlé’s customers and warned other companies that continued doing business in Russia that they would be next. “We call on all companies that continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the budget of the Kremlin’s criminal regime: Pull out of Russia!”...
The information of more than half a million individuals was likely compromised after three healthcare services providers in Alabama and Colorado suffered cybersecurity breaches. Patients Hit by Data Breaches The most recent cyberattack – and most impactful – targeted South Denver Cardiology Associates and resulted in the data of more than 287,000 patients being exfiltrated. The Colorado firm identified the attack on January 4 and later discovered that an unknown party had access to certain systems in its network between January 2 and January 5, 2022. Potentially compromised data may have...
Video game developer Ubisoft has confirmed that it suffered a ‘cyber security incident’ that caused disruption to its games, systems, and services. The announcement comes after multiple Ubisoft users had reported issues last week accessing their Ubisoft service. Data extortion group LAPSUS$, who has claimed responsibility for hacking Samsung, NVIDIA, and Mercado Libre thus far, appears to be behind this incident. Ubisoft Breach: Developers Initiate ‘company-wide password reset’ Video game production giant Ubisoft states it experienced a cyber security incident sometime last week. “Last week, Ubisoft experienced a cyber security incident that caused temporary disruption to some...
SpyCloud announced a report that examines trends related to exposed data. Researchers identified 1.7 billion exposed credentials, a 15% increase from 2020, and 13.8 billion recaptured Personally Identifiable Information (PII) records obtained from breaches in 2021. Through its analysis of this data, it was found that despite increasingly sophisticated and targeted cyberattacks, consumers continue to engage in poor cyber practices regarding passwords, including the use of similar passwords for multiple accounts, weak or common passwords and passwords containing easy-to-guess words or phrases connected to pop culture. “Reused passwords have been...
The email addresses and passwords of more than 71,000 NVIDIA employees were likely stolen in a recent cyberattack and are now circulating within underground communities Nvidia Databreach On February 23, hackers managed to compromise NVIDIA’s network and steal not only employee credentials but also proprietary information. The Lapsus$ ransomware gang, which claimed responsibility for the attack and apparently asked the chip maker to pay $1 million for the stolen data, started leaking the compromised information over the weekend, saying the move was retaliation to NVIDIA’s alleged attempt to hack them back....
My team was recently engaged by a client (Hackme) to perform a black-box external penetration test. The objective was simple – see how susceptible the organization is from an external point of view and test the effectiveness of the security controls that are managed enterprise-wide. As such, asides, the company name, we were given “ZERO” information. The following details illustrate how we embarked upon this assessment which resulted in… OSINT 101 We kicked off with some Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) 101 :). There are quite a number of open...
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