Hacker Stole Data of Over 70% Bulgarian Citizens from Tax Agency Servers

Eastern European country Bulgaria has suffered the biggest data breach in its history that compromised personal and financial information of 5 million adult citizens out of its total population of 7 million people.

According to multiple sources in loc… Continue reading Hacker Stole Data of Over 70% Bulgarian Citizens from Tax Agency Servers

Critical Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress WooCommerce Extension

If you own an eCommerce website built on WordPress and powered by WooCommerce plugin, then beware of a new, unpatched vulnerability that has been made public and could allow attackers to compromise your online store.

A WordPress security company—calle… Continue reading Critical Unpatched Flaw Disclosed in WordPress WooCommerce Extension

Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites, Puts 127 Million New Records Up for Sale

A hacker who was selling details of nearly 620 million online accounts stolen from 16 popular websites has now put up a second batch of 127 million records originating from 8 other sites for sale on the dark web.

Last week, The Hacker News received an… Continue reading Hacker Breaches Dozens of Sites, Puts 127 Million New Records Up for Sale

Hey, Music Lovers! Last.Fm Hack Leaks 43 Million Account Passwords

Another Day, Another Data Breach!

If you love to listen to music online and have an account on Last.fm website, your account details may have compromised in a data breach that leaked more than 43 Million user personal data online.

Last.fm was hacked … Continue reading Hey, Music Lovers! Last.Fm Hack Leaks 43 Million Account Passwords

Hacker Breaks into Political Party’s Video Conference System; Could Spy, too!

A critical flaw in the video conferencing software of the Quebec Liberal Party (PLQ) − a Canadian federalist provincial political party − allowed a user to spy on and hear the strategy discussions of the party at its premises and even access the live video camera feeds.

But luckily, the unknown white hat hacker who discovered the flaw alerted the PLQ staff of the security issue, showing them

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CTB-Locker Ransomware Spreading Rapidly, Infects Thousands of Web Servers

In last few years, we saw an innumerable rise in ransomware threats ranging from Cryptowall to Locky ransomware discovered last week.

Now, another genre of ransomware had been branched out from the family of CTB-Locker Ransomware with an update to infect “Websites”, according to Lawrence Abrams of BleepingComputer.

The newly transformed ransomware dubbed “CTB-Locker for Websites”

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