Dark Web Hitman Paid with BTC to Murder Teen Victim
The 31-year-old man paid $20,000 to a supposed murder-for-hire website on the dark web, which turned out to be a scam. A resident of Haddonfield,…
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Instant Checkmate, TruthFinder Data Breach: 20M Accounts Leaked
Popular background check and verification services Instant Checkmate and TruthFinder have suffered a data breach, which has been confirmed by their parent company, PeopleConnect. TruthFinder…
India’s Largest Truck Brokerage Company Leaking 140GB of Data
The misconfigured server is still exposing the data, and there has been no response from the company since their only contact email address available to…
EV Charging Stations at Risk of DoS Attacks
Threat actors can remotely carry out DDoS and DoS attacks on vulnerable Electric Vehicle (EV) Charge Points (CPs) to cause service outages and access sensitive…
What is an OSINT Tool
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools are an invaluable resource for companies, organizations cybersecurity researchers and students. In this article, we will explore the 15 best…
Malicious Software Outwitting Antivirus for 6 Years
Check Point Research (CPR) recently reported on a live software service, dubbed TrickGate, that has been used by malicious threat actors for over six years.…
Content Delivery Network (CDN) FAQs
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have become increasingly popular among businesses of all sizes in recent years. They offer a host of benefits to businesses, which…
Google Fi User Data Breached Through T-Mobile Hack
According to Google Fi’s email sent to its customers on Monday, a limited amount of their customer data was exposed in T-Mobile’s breach after suspicious…
Amazon Still Selling T95 TV Box with Pre-Installed Malware
A few weeks back, Hackread.com reported about a malware-infected Android TV box available on Amazon: the T95 TV box. The box contained pre-installed malware, which…
GitHub Reports Code-Signing Certificate Theft in Security Breach
Although attackers exfiltrated a set of encrypted code-signing certificates, these were password-protected, so there is no possibility of malicious use. GitHub revealed that on December…
Why Cybersecurity Business Needs a Real-Time Collaboration Tool
When the Cybercrime in a Pandemic World study (PDF) was released in late 2021, the report noted that cybersecurity threats had risen 81% since the…
ChatGPT Clone Apps Collecting Personal Data on iOS, Play Store
On Android devices, one of the apps analyzed by researchers has more than 100,000 downloads, tracks, and shares location data with ByteDance and Amazon, etc.…