News site associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA)
November 5, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The Washington Post reveals that a cyber-attack by a US security agency against Russia's infamous troll factory (Internet Research Agency) has resulted in a destroyed server RAID controller and formatted hard drives.
Telcotech
November 5, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Several of Cambodia's biggest internet service providers (EZECOM, SINET, Telcotech, and Digi) are hit by large-scale DDoS attacks.
Managed Service Providers
October 3, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
The US Department of Homeland Security issues an alert about "ongoing" cyber-attacks against managed service providers, indirectly attributed to APT10.
Internet Solutions
October 23, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Internet Solutions (IS) sends a notice to clients to warn them about a breach, and urges them to change their passwords and take additional steps to secure their servers. Later the company confirms that its internal monitoring systems have detected "irregular activity" on some of its virtual services.
Hetzner South Africa
October 5, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
The South African branch of Hetzner, a well-known web hosting provider, suffers a new security breach. The attacker manages to gain access to customer details.
Apollo
October 1, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Apollo, a sales engagement startup boasting a database of more than 200 million contact records, is hacked and sends an email to its affected customers.
Vesta Control Panel (VestaCP)
October 17, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Vesta Control Panel, the provider of an open-source hosting panel software reveals a security breach during which an unknown hacker contaminated the project's source code with malware. The malicious code was added on May 31, this year, and later removed two weeks later, on June 13.
Facepunch
October 17, 2018
•[ leak, technology ]
As reported by Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned breach notification service, the Facepunch game studio was the victim of a data breach in June 2016 which led to sensitive information of 396,650 users being exposed.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey
October 5, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed Odyssey's launch is disrupted by a DDoS attack on the day of its release.
Square Enix
October 4, 2018
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
The same day Square Enix also announces to be fighting off a DDoS attack aimed towards its popular game, Final Fantasy XIV.
Virat Kohli's official website
September 29, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Following the defeat of the Bangladeshi cricket team against India at the 2018 Asia Cup final, a group of Bangladeshi hackers defaces Virat Kohli's official website (the current captain of India's team) to protest against an 'unfair decision' during the match.
DoorDash
September 25, 2018
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
Food delivery startup DoorDash receives dozens of complaints from customers who say their accounts have been hacked. The users are the target of a credential stuffing attack.
Family Orbit
August 30, 2018
•[ hack, leak, misconfiguration ]
An anonymous hacker is able to find the key to the cloud servers of Family Orbit and leaks 281 Gb of pictures and videos.
TheTruthSpy
August 28, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
A hacker breaks into the servers of TheTruthSpy, one of the most notorious stalkerware companies out there, and stole logins, audio recordings, pictures, and text messages, among other data. The breach occurred on February 2018.
Animoto
August 20, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Animoto, a cloud-based video maker service for social media sites, reveals a data breach. The breach occurred on July 10 but was confirmed by the company in early August, and later reported to the California attorney general. Names, dates of birth and user email addresses were accesed by the hackers, but the company said it wasn't known if data had been exfiltrated.
AdGuard
September 21, 2018
•[ hack, brute-force, technology ]
AdGuard, a popular ad blocker for Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac, resets all user passwords, after suffering a brute-force attack during which an unknown attacker tried to log into user accounts by guessing their passwords.
DEOSGames
September 10, 2018
•[ financial, technology ]
Betting platform DEOSGames is drained of a significant chunk of its operating funds in a heist that netted one 'lucky' punter almost $24,000.
League of Legends Philippines'
July 15, 2018
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
League of Legends Philippines' confirms an unauthorized modification in their client lobby code resulting in the injection of the Coinhive Monero miner.
Facebook
September 27, 2018
•[ hack, misconfiguration, technology ]
Facebook says a breach affected 50 million people on the social network. The vulnerability stemmed from the "view as" feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to others. Attackers exploited code associated with the feature that allowed them to steal "access tokens" that could be used to take over people's accounts.
NewsNow
September 25, 2018
•[ hack, technology ]
Online news aggregation service NewsNow admits that it has suffered a security breach and an encrypted version of the passwords may have been accessed.
