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Head Mare is a hacktivist group that first made itself known in 2023 on the social network X (formerly Twitter). In their public posts, the attackers reveal information about some of their victims, including organization names, internal documents stolen during Read More …
A 17-year-old boy from Walsall has been arrested in connection with the September 2023 cyberattack that crippled MGM Resorts for several days. The West Midlands Police, working alongside the FBI and the National Crime Agency (NCA), apprehended the teenager on Read More …
Recently, Mandiant became aware of an APT41 intrusion where the malicious actor deployed a combination of ANTSWORD and BLUEBEAM web shells for persistence. These web shells were identified on a Tomcat Apache Manager server and active since at least 2023. Read More …
Major sporting events like the World Cup, Super Bowl, and Wimbledon attract millions, even billions, of viewers. Argentina’s shootout win over France in the final game of the Qatar 2022 World Cup reached a global audience of 1.5 billion viewers. And Read More …
The Walt Disney Company is reeling from a suspected cyberattack by a hacktivist group calling itself NullBulge, exposing a significant amount of sensitive information. NullBulge announced its exploit on 12 July on both the cybercrime forum Breach Forums and X/Twitter. Read More …
The cybercriminals who claimed responsibility for the Ticketmaster data breach say they’ve stolen 440,000 tickets for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. As proof, an entity using the handle Sp1d3rHunters, a merger of Sp1d3r and ShinyHunters who are both aliases associated with Read More …
The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has been observing PDF files with QR codes being abused by malware authors to deceive users for a long time. QR codes are increasingly popular due to their versatility and ease of use. Read More …
Proofpoint recently identified a fraudulent website purporting to sell tickets to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games. It was notably listed as the second sponsored search result on Google, after the official website, when searching for “Paris 2024 tickets,” and Read More …
Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week: Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC, Live Nation said on May 20th it identified “unauthorized activity within a third-party Read More …
Notorious data leak site BreachForums appears to be back online after it was seized by law enforcement a few weeks ago. At least one of BreachForums domains and its dark web site are live again. However, questions have been raised Read More …
