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Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk
Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk
When a hacker called the company that his gang claimed to breach, he felt the same way that most of us feel when calling the front desk: frustrated. The phone call between the hacker, who claims to represent the ransomware gang DragonForce, and the victim company employee was posted by the ransomware gang on its dark web site in an apparent attempt to put pressure on the company to pay a ransom demand. In reality, the call recording just shows a somewhat hilarious and failed attempt to extort and intimidate a company’s rank-and-file employees.
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Ransomware gang’s new extortion trick? Calling the front desk
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident
Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident
Streaming giant Roku has confirmed a second security incident in as many months, with hackers this time able to compromise more than half a million Roku user accounts. In a statement Friday, the company said about 576,000 user accounts were accessed using a technique known as credential stuffing, where malicious hackers use usernames and passwords stolen from other data breaches and reuse the logins on other sites.
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Roku says 576,000 user accounts hacked after second security incident
Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet. Security researchers Can Yoleri, Murat Özfidan and Egemen Koçhisarlı with SOCRadar, a cybersecurity company that helps organizations find security weaknesses, discovered an open and public storage server hosted on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service that was storing internal information relating to Microsoft’s Bing search engine. The Azure storage server housed code, scripts and configuration files containing passwords, keys and credentials used by the Microsoft employees for accessing other internal databases and systems.
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Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
Amnesty confirms Apple warning: Indian journalists’ iPhones infected with Pegasus spyware
Amnesty confirms Apple warning: Indian journalists’ iPhones infected with Pegasus spyware
Apple's warnings in late October that Indian journalists and opposition figures may have been targeted by state-sponsored attacks prompted a forceful Behind closed doors, senior officials from Modi's administration demanded that Apple soften the political impact of the state-sponsored warnings, according to Washington Post.
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Amnesty confirms Apple warning: Indian journalists’ iPhones infected with Pegasus spyware
This $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password
This $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password
Attendees at Def Con, one of the world’s largest hacking conferences, are used to weird shenanigans, such as a seemingly innocuous wall of computer screens that display people’s passwords sniffed over the conference Wi-Fi network. But at this year’s event, even conference veterans were confused and concerned when their iPhones started showing pop-up messages prompting them to connect their Apple ID or share a password with a nearby Apple TV.
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This $70 device can spoof an Apple device and trick you into sharing your password