Collaborate Disseminate
By Waqas
Europol said that the suspects carried out a number of cybercrimes included phishing, SIM Swapping, and BEC (business email compromise.)
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Factorial, a startup out of Barcelona that has built a platform that lets SMBs run human resources functions with the same kind of tools that typically are used by much bigger companies, is today announcing some funding to bulk up its own position: the company has raised $80 million, funding that it will be using […] Continue reading Spain’s Factorial raises $80M at a $530M valuation on the back of strong traction for its ‘Workday for SMBs’
By Waqas
Reportedly, John McAfee has died of suicide hours after the Spanish High Court authorized his extradition to the United States. According to local Spanish media, Mr. John McAfee, the founder of antivirus company McAfee has died in a prison nea… Continue reading John McAfee has Died in Spanish Prison, Reports
John McAfee, a cybersecurity industry pioneer who would go on to promote various cryptocurrencies and flee international law enforcement, has died in Spain, according to multiple news reports.
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He was known as ‘The Giggles’ in his native Spain, and his legacy is that of a joy-spreading meme. Continue reading Juan Joya Borja, the ‘Spanish Laughing Guy’ Meme, Has Died
A ransomware attack has affected IT systems at a Spanish government agency that manages unemployment benefits, disrupting “hundreds of thousands” of appointments at the agency, a Spanish labor union said Tuesday. The cyberattack on Spain’s State Public Employment Service (SEPE) affected the agency’s offices around the country, forcing employees to use pen and paper to take appointments, according to the Central Independent Trade Union and Civil Servants. The union alleged that the SEPE had aging IT systems that the agency had not upgraded. SEPE plays an integral part in distributing unemployment benefits in a country where the coronavirus pandemic has hammered the economy. The number of jobless people in Spain is now 4 million, its highest rate in five years, according to official data. But SEPE Director Gerardo Gutiérrez said an interview with Spanish broadcaster RNE that the incident had not affected unemployment benefits, and that it has not led […]
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Police in Barcelona have arrested four hackers suspected to be behind a massive criminal scheme which has targeted tens of thousands of victims with malicious links impersonating banks in order to steal victims’ credentials and money. In the raid, which took place March 2, the police collected laptops, cash, documents, and other high-end mobile devices, the Criminal Investigation Division of the Barcelona Metropolitan Police Region said in an announcement. The scammers’ plot included sending bad links through SMS messages to victims, which, if clicked, would direct targets to fake pages imitating banking pages or mobile operators, where the hackers would then steal victims’ credentials and duplicate the victims’ SIM cards to take control of the victims’ phones, according to the release. The attacker-controlled sites were hosted on servers located in the Cayman Islands, according to law enforcement. The hackers would then make fraudulent money transfers with their newfound access and […]
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A mysterious hacking group has been posing as Taiwan’s top infection-disease official in an attempt to steal sensitive data from Taiwanese users, researchers said Monday. The hackers sent meticulously written spearphishing emails to a select group of targets, which may have included Taiwan’s Centers for Disease Control employees, according to ElevenPaths, the cybersecurity unit of Spanish telecommunications firm Telefónica Group, which uncovered the activity. It’s a reminder of the lengths to which hacking groups have gone to impersonate public health authorities and break into computer networks during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the course of a week in early May, the hackers sent emails to certain Taiwanese users urging them to get novel coronavirus tests. Attached to the email was a remote hacking tool capable of stealing login credentials and hijacking webcams. “The type of tools and the targets selected indicate that they are looking for intelligence, mainly governmental,” Miguel Ángel […]
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By Deeba Ahmed
8Belts database was hosted on a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.
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Internet scammers are conducting the kind of business that would probably get them in trouble with the inhabitants of the Continental Hotel. Tens of thousands of internet users in Spain, Mexico and South America have downloaded pirated copies of “John Wick 3” and other movies which come bundled with malicious software, according to a forthcoming Microsoft security warning viewed by CyberScoop. Since April 11, some bootleg movie files on torrent websites have come with a strain of malware that hackers are using to try to exploit a victim’s machine to generate cryptocurrency. The attempted attacks coincide with a 41% increase in traffic to piracy websites in the U.S., and a 62% increase in Spain, since February, according to the British anti-piracy firm Muso. Thousands of users continue to download pirated files of “John Wick 3,” and Spanish-language titles including “Punalies Por La Espalda” and “Contagio,” a Spanish-dubbed version of the […]
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