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CrowdStrike and Google take down botnet used by hackers to target open source software developers
CrowdStrike, in partnership with Google and Shadowserver, a non-profit organization that scans and monitors the internet for cyberattacks, took down a botnet used by cybercriminals to…
UK Visa Portal Revealed Thousands of Applicants’ Passports and Selfies — Then Invited Lawyers to Ask Us
A website called the UK Visa Portal has publicly exposed thousands of passports and selfies of applicants who paid the site to obtain UK immigrant visas,…
UK Visa portal leaked thousands of applicant passports and selfies online – and hasn’t fixed the leak
A website called the UK Visa Portal is publicly disclosing the passports and selfies of applicants who registered and paid for the website to obtain a…
For months, fraudsters have been exploiting a loophole that allows them to send spam emails from an internal Microsoft email address commonly used to send legitimate…
An international coalition of law enforcement agencies announced Thursday that they have taken down a popular virtual private network service used by cybercriminals and arrested its…
GitHub, the popular developer platform owned by Microsoft, confirmed that it had been breached and attackers had stolen data from around 3,800 internal code repositories. The…
President Trump’s eponymous cell phone carrier and smartphone maker, Trump Mobile, is leaking customer data, including postal addresses and email addresses, according to reports. On Tuesday,…
The US cybersecurity agency CISA may have escaped a major security breach, thanks to a bona fide security researcher who identified publicly exposed credentials that allowed…
Open source tools maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code and refuses to pay ransom
Grafana Labs, the maker of the popular open-source web visualization software of the same name, confirmed it had been hacked but refused to pay the hackers…
NYC Health + Hospitals says hackers stole medical data and fingerprints during breach affecting at least 1.8 million people
New York public health provider NYC Health + Hospitals says data breach for months that allowed hackers to steal personal data, medical records and fingerprint scans…