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Alleged Data Breach of the United States Department of Defense and National Security Agency Cybercrime

Alleged Data Breach of the United States Department of Defense and National Security Agency

Recently, alarming news has emerged on a well-known underground forum regarding alleged data breaches of the United States Department of...
Pietro Melillo - July 11, 2024
New Ransomware Group “Vanir Group”: Three Victims Immediately in Their Data Leak Site Cybercrime

New Ransomware Group “Vanir Group”: Three Victims Immediately in Their Data Leak Site

A new ransomware group, calling themselves "Vanir Group," has recently made its debut in the cybercrime landscape. This group has...
Pietro Melillo - July 10, 2024
The Threat Actor 888 claims responsibility for a breach at Nokia. Cybercrime

The Threat Actor 888 claims responsibility for a breach at Nokia.

A malicious actor, known by the alias "888," recently claimed responsibility for disclosing sensitive data belonging to Nokia. The attack,...
Pietro Melillo - July 10, 2024
Alleged NATO Data BreachAlleged NATO Data Breach: 643 CSV Files with User Data and Server Details Leaked Cybercrime

Alleged NATO Data BreachAlleged NATO Data Breach: 643 CSV Files with User Data and Server Details Leaked

A threat actor claims to have leaked sensitive data from NATO - TIDE (Think-Tank for Information Decision and Execution Superiority)....
Pietro Melillo - July 8, 2024
Access to UK Accounting System for Sale: 600 Clients and 1TB of Data at Risk Cybercrime

Access to UK Accounting System for Sale: 600 Clients and 1TB of Data at Risk

A malicious actor is allegedly selling access to an RDWeb system in the United Kingdom, belonging to an accounting firm....
Pietro Melillo - July 8, 2024
China: 7.5 Million Tourist Data Stolen! Cybercrime

China: 7.5 Million Tourist Data Stolen!

On the morning of July 6, 2024, a user known as "BlackKing" revealed a significant data breach involving a Chinese...
Pietro Melillo - July 8, 2024
Latvian Government Database Compromised: Over 1.6 Million Government Data Lines! Cybercrime

Latvian Government Database Compromised: Over 1.6 Million Government Data Lines!

A malicious actor has claimed to have leaked a database containing over 1.6 million lines of data from the Latvian...
Pietro Melillo - July 8, 2024
Threat Actors Steal 5.90 GB of Sensitive Data from the Fiscalía General del Estado de Veracruz! Cybercrime

Threat Actors Steal 5.90 GB of Sensitive Data from the Fiscalía General del Estado de Veracruz!

In an era where cybersecurity has become crucial for protecting sensitive data, a recent leak has revealed an alleged security...
Pietro Melillo - July 8, 2024
Dangerous 0day Windows LPE Vulnerability for Sale in the Underground Cybercrime

Dangerous 0day Windows LPE Vulnerability for Sale in the Underground

A malicious actor, under the name "tikila", has posted an advertisement on a hacking forum for the sale of a...
Pietro Melillo - July 7, 2024
Europol Breached: Secret Documents for Sale on the Dark Web Cybercrime

Europol Breached: Secret Documents for Sale on the Dark Web

July 6, 2024: A well-known user of the BreachForums, IntelBroker, has recently announced the sale of a collection of crypto-related...
Pietro Melillo - July 7, 2024
The New RockYou2024 Collection has been published! 10 Billion Credentials Compromised Cybercrime

The New RockYou2024 Collection has been published! 10 Billion Credentials Compromised

Everyone involved with CTF has used the infamous rockyou.txt wordlist at least once, mainly to perform password cracking activities. The file is a...
Alessio Stefan - July 6, 2024
Taylor Swift’s Tour at Risk: Hacker Demands $2 Million from Ticketmaster for 170k Stolen Barcodes Cybercrime

Taylor Swift’s Tour at Risk: Hacker Demands $2 Million from Ticketmaster for 170k Stolen Barcodes

A cyber incident has hit Ticketmaster, with a malicious actor issuing a ransom demand, threatening to release sensitive data unless...
Pietro Melillo - July 5, 2024

Alleged SpaceX Database Breach Published on BreachForums

A recent post on a dark web forum has caught the attention of the international cybersecurity community. A user, identified by the nickname l33tfg, claimed to have published a supposed...

RHC interviews Qilin Ransomware! “Let’s play fair and wait for a worthy opponent on the field”

Qilin (from Chinese :麒麟) is a legendary creature that appears in Chinese mythology and is said to appear with the imminent arrival or demise of a sage or illustrious ruler....

Navigating the future: a dialogue on human resilience and preservation

Participants: NewPlato: A contemporary philosopher seeking to understand the nature of human civilization and its future. NewSocrates: A wise mentor exploring the implications of population growth, technological advancements, and the...

Cryptography at Risk: MIT develops a Quantum Algorithm to crack RSA.

Modern encryption methods, such as RSA, are based on the fact that even the most powerful classical computers are not able to quickly decompose a large number into prime factors....

Arrest of Pavel Durov: Telegram Founder Detained in Paris

On August 24, 2024, French authorities arrested Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, at Le Bourget Airport. Durov, a 39-year-old Franco-Russian citizen, had just arrived from Azerbaijan on...

IntelBroker Takes Control of BreachForums: A New Chapter in Cybercrime Management

IntelBroker Takes Control of BreachForums: A New Chapter in Cybercrime Management IntroductionThe recent acquisition of BreachForums by IntelBroker marks a significant shift in the landscape of cybercrime. This transition of...

Donald Trump’s campaign under attack! Documents and internal communications exfiltrated

After the European elections unfolded, geopolitical attentions shifted to the U.S. election campaign, one of the most dynamic in recent years recently with the Democrats' recent changeover with Harris as...

NSO Group targeted! BlackMeta attacks Spyware maker’s central domain

The Pro-Palestinian group BlackMeta (or DarkMeta) announced on August 1, 2024, on their official telegram channel that they conducted a destructive attack on the NSO group's infrastructure, including the central...

Echelon Stealer: The Open Source Malware

Echelon Stealer is an infostealer malware that was first discovered in 2018 and is still active. Currently shared as an open-source tool on GitHub, Echelon Stealer offers various advanced features...

Ferrari avoids deepfake scam! An executive unmasks the CEO’s fake audio messages

In an incident earlier this month, a Ferrari executive found himself receiving unusual messages that appeared to come from the company's CEO, Benedetto Vigna. The messages came via WhatsApp, owned...

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