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Researchers reveal that campaigns based on “living off the land” tools, conducted by Chafer APT Hacker group with apparent links to the Iranian government released attacks based on several tools built for hacking and spreading backdoors, data exfiltration.[1] Researchers revealed that attacks in the Middle East were by the Chafer […]

Governments in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia targeted by Iranian Chafer ...

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The document that belongs to DigitalOcean was made public – customer emails and account details exposed According to emails,[1] that company started to send out the incident involves a document from 2018 that stored email addresses, account user names, and other details about sales and communication or server usage. DigitalOcean is […]

DigitalOcean discloses breach: document with customer data made public

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Dating app MobiFriends suffers a data breach – personal information of almost 4 million users affected A massive upload of data that belongs to MobiFriends users was found on a high-profile underground hacking forum and is now available to download. The leak was discovered by the RiskBased Security research team, which posted […]

MobiFriends data breach: 3.68 million credentials exposed online

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The unauthorized attacker was able to connect to accounts using SSH access  The incident was discovered when the GoDaddy security team spotted some suspicious activity on some subset servers.[1] According to the reports, the data breach took place on October 19, 2019. Customers got notified via email because the third-party individual […]

GoDaddy breach: unauthorized attacker gained access to hosting accounts

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Adobe released updates that patch critical remote code execution vulnerabilities besides other security flaws Adobe released emergency updates for Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Bridge, and Magento e-commerce platforms.[1] The update includes patches for 35 newly discovered vulnerabilities that were reported as critical.[2] When one of the programs gets affected, multiple arbitrary […]

Adobe Illustrator, Magento, and Bridge get critical security updates

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VictoryGate botnet was primarily used for distributing crypto-mining malware With countless ransomware attacks[1] and COVID-19 phishing scams[2] covering the cybersecurity landscape in recent months, it is always nice to hear some good news. A botnet dubbed VictoryGate was temporarily shut down with the help of security firm ESET. According to the […]

AV maker ESET disrupts VictoryGate botnet

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