Category: ➽News
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World’s largest darknet market “Hydra” is taken down
On April 5, 2022 German authorities have announced seizure of Hydra servers, as well as crypto-funds identified during special operation. The police were also able to seize 543 bitcoins from the profits of Hydra, which are currently worth a little over $25 million. It’s remarkable, that Hydra has processed more than $3.2B since its launch…
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Globant Hacked, 70Gb leaked online
IT and software consultancy firm Globant has confirmed that they were breached by the Lapsus$ ransomware operators, where data consisting of administrator credentials and source code was leaked by the threat actors. As part of the leak, the hacking group released a 70GB archive of data stolen from Globant, describing it as “some customers source…
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Nestlé Data: Anonymous Hack or Internal Breach?
On March 22, Nestlé, the Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation, has suffered a data breach. Hacking group Anonymous in a series of tweets has called out companies that continue operating in Russia for sponsoring Kremlin regime by taxes they pay in country. Days after Anonymous has claimed to have hacked Nestlé, extracting…
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Ubisoft suffers cyber security incident
Video game developer Ubisoft has confirmed that it had a ‘cyber security incident’ that caused disruption to its games, systems, and services earlier this month. Ransomware group LAPSUS$, who has claimed responsibility for hacking Samsung, NVIDIA, and Mercado Libre thus far, appears to be behind this incident too. Ubisoft Entertainment SA is a French video game company…
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Confirmed: 190Gb of Samsung data leaked on darknet
The infamous ransomware Lapsus$ announced right after Nvidia incident their next victim: Samsung. On March 4, Lapsus$ published a description of the upcoming leak, saying that it contains “confidential Samsung source code” originating from a breach. The full announcement is present below: Lapsus$ split the leaked data in three compressed files that add to almost…
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NVIDIA Data Breach
Nvidia Corporation is an American multinational technology company incorporated in Delaware and based in Santa Clara, California. It designs graphics processing units for the gaming and professional markets, as well as system on a chip units for the mobile computing and automotive market. The Lapsus$ ransomware group claims to have stolen 1TB of data from…
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“The Infraud Organisation” Hacking Group Arrested
On January 22, 2022 the leaders of the hacker group The Infraud Organization have been arrested by the Russian officials. Extradition of the cyber criminals was sought by the U.S. intelligence services for long time. The main way the hackers made money was by stealing credit card data and using them. The search for the…
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REvil taken down by special FSB operation
On January 15, 2022 FSB reported a successful operation on seizure of infamous ransomware gang behind REvil. We consider it to be a big win in cybersecurity world. REvil was a Russia-based private ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation. After an attack, REvil would threaten to publish victim’s information on their darknet page Happy Blog unless the ransom was received. In a high profile case,…