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Daniel's Hosting, which hosts about 7,600 dark web portals for free, has been hacked and is down. It's unclear when, or if, it will be back up....
Group video chat app Houseparty has offered a $1m bounty to identify what it claims is an organised campaign to falsely depict it as a hackers' backdoor. Announced at 4am UTC on the firm's Twitter account, the million-dollar bounty is being offered to "The first individual to provide proof of such a campaign," with Epic Games, the firm behind Houseparty, alleging this effort is "a paid commercial smear to harm Houseparty."
Marriott Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "Unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed. The size of the latest data exposure has not been disclosed, though Marriott admitted it seemed to have started in January 2020 and was detected "At the end of February."
Marriott Hotels has suffered its second data spillage in as many years after an "Unexpected amount" of guests' data was accessed through two compromised employee logins, the under-fire chain has confirmed. The size of the latest data exposure has not been disclosed, though Marriott admitted it seemed to have started in January 2020 and was detected "At the end of February."
If anyone is using that house party app DELETE IT My friends email account been hacked into by it And managed to get bank account details too and has hacked that. To be honest, we can't tell you that the Houseparty app is bug-free, because we haven't decompiled or analysed it, and even if we had, working out that an app is totally free of vulnerabilities is a close-to-impossible exercise, as are many tasks where you are expected to prove a negative.
The Russia-linked cyber-espionage group known as Pawn Storm has been leveraging hijacked email accounts to send phishing emails to potential victims, Trend Micro's security researchers reveal. For years, Pawn Storm has relied on phishing to gain access to systems of interest, but Trend Micro observed a shift in tactics, techniques, and procedures in May 2019, when the group started using the compromised email accounts of high-profile targets to send credential phishing emails.
Online exchange rate data provider Open Exchange Rates has exposed an undisclosed amount of user data via an Amazon database, according to a notification letter published on Twitter this week. Open Exchange Rates provides foreign exchange data for over 200 currencies worldwide, including digital ones.
On the second day of the Pwn2Own 2020 hacking competition, participants earned a total of $90,000 for exploits targeting Oracle VirtualBox, Adobe Reader and Windows. Amat Cama and Richard Zhu of team Fluoroacetate earned $50,000 for demonstrating that they could hijack a system by exploiting use-after-free vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and the Windows kernel.
Someone has been trojanizing a wide variety of hacking tools to compromise the machines of hackers who want to use the tools for free, Cybereason researcher Amit Serper has revealed. "So far, we have found samples that are either pretending to be various hacking tools or pretending to be installers of the Chrome Internet browser," they noted.
Far from being depressed, Wiley was expressing the forlorn hope that infosec as a field would be less dominated by malicious persons trying to make a fast buck by scamming honest folk and businesses out of their hard-earned money. As Check Point's incident response head honcho, Wiley has full visibility into what the infosec company's operations involve.