Author Archives: Habiba Rashid

Meta Fined €265 million in Facebook Data Scraping Case in the EU

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By Habiba Rashid
The incident led to the publication of data on Irish police, sitting judges, prison officers, social workers, journalists, and others, leading to a spike in scam calls and texts in Ireland.
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Hacker Leaks 5.3M Twitter Accounts as Claims of Larger Breach Surface

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By Habiba Rashid
A hacker has leaked 5.3 million Twitter account details on a cybercrime forum while another researcher, Chad Loder, claims there is another Twitter breach involving “perhaps over 100 million accounts.”
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Iran’s Fars News Agency website hacked as part of anti-govt protests

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By Habiba Rashid
The hackers from Black Reward Team are also claiming to have deleted nearly 250 terabytes of data from the website from its servers and computers.
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Moses Staff Hackers Publish Footage of Jerusalem Explosion

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By Habiba Rashid
According to claims made by Moses Staff hackers, they hacked a major Israeli security firm to access and leak the footage.
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Watch Out Gamers: Hackers Exploiting MSI Afterburner to Deliver Coin Miner

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By Habiba Rashid
So far, researchers have identified approximately 50 phishing websites, all targeting MSI Afterburner to deliver malware. 
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Killnet Hits European Parliament Website with DDoS Attack

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By Habiba Rashid
The DDoS attack took place moments after the European Parliament voted to declare the Russian government a state sponsor of terrorism.
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Retired Software Exploited To Target Power Grids, Microsoft

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By Habiba Rashid
Boa was discontinued in 2005 but remained popular and is now becoming a crisis because of the complex nature of how it was built into the IoT device supply chain.
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