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Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2021
Colonial Pipeline discloses data breach after May ransomware attack

Colonial Pipeline discloses a data breach of the personal information of thousands of individuals after the ransomware attack that took place in May 2021. Colonial Pipeline has started notifying more than 5000 people that had their personal information compromised after a ransomware attack that took place in May. The Colonial Pipeline facility in Pelham, Alabama […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2021
T-Mobile confirms data breach that exposed customer personal info

T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale. T-Mobile has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information from over 100 million of its US customers. Yesterday the company announced it launched an investigation into a possible data breach after […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 16, 2021
Threat actor claims to be selling data of more than 100 million T-Mobile customers

T-Mobile is investigating a possible data breach after a threat actor published a post on a forum claiming to be selling the personal data of its customers. New problems for T-Mobile, the company is investigating a possible data breach after that a threat actor has published a post on a hacking forum claiming to be […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2021
A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence revealed a secret hacking squad

A job ad published by the UK’s Ministry of Defence has revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed secret SAS mobile hacker team. The existence of a secret SAS mobile hacker squad, named MAB5 and under the control of the Computer Network Operations (CNO) Exploitation, was revealed by a job ad published by the UK’s […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2021
Security Affairs newsletter Round 327

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. Four years after its takedown, AlphaBay marketplace revamped Classified documents from Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 15, 2021
Glowworm Attack allows sound recovery via a device’s power indicator LED

The Glowworm attack leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations. Boffins from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev devised a new attack technique, dubbed the “Glowworm attack,” that leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Four years after its takedown, AlphaBay marketplace revamped

The popular black marketplace AlphaBay is back, four years after law enforcement agencies took down the popular hidden service. The darknet marketplace AlphaBay resurfaced four years after an international operation conducted by law enforcement agencies took down it. AlphaBay was active between 2014 and June 2017, law enforcement seized the marketplace and arrested the administrator Alexandre Cazes (aka “Alpha02/Admin”), […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Classified documents from Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available for sale

Emails allegedly stolen from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs are available for sale in a cybercrime forum, some emails include high-sensitive info. An archive containing 1.6 million emails containing highly sensitive messages allegedly stolen from the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is available for sale on the RaidForums hacking forum. The ad doesn’t include […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 14, 2021
Dumping user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Windows 365

A security expert devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 Cloud PC service using Mimikatz. Benjamin Delpy, the popular security researcher and author of the Mimikatz tool, has devised a method to retrieve a user’s Microsoft Azure credentials in plaintext from Microsoft’s new Windows 365 […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 13, 2021
SynAck ransomware gang releases master decryption keys for old victims

The SynAck ransomware gang released the master decryption keys for their operations and rebranded as a new group dubbed El_Cometa group. Good news for the victims of the SynAck ransomware gang, the group released the master decryption keys to allow victims to decrypt their files for free. The gang has now rebranded as the new […]