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Dating app user logins found on hacking forum

3.5 million user logins for the MobiFriends dating app are being offered for free on a popular dark web hackers forum.

First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records.

Google has seen a rising number of attackers impersonating news outlets and journalists to spread fake news among other reporters.

The attacker(s) infected both IT and operational networks with an unspecified ransomware strain, though the facility never lost control.

The county could only claw back some of the $2,504,601 it paid to a scammer posing as a contractor working on building a new high school.

Google & UC San Diego researchers found that only 5 of 27 hacker-for-hire services actually launched attacks against their targets.

Amnesty International, which was sent the Pegasus spyware via a WhatsApp message, is seeking to stop NSO Group’s “web of surveillance.”

They’re part of a gang that spearphished millions of records out of the health insurer and other businesses, the DOJ says.

Court order in hand, Microsoft seized control of the hacker group’s (which it calls Phosphorous) phishing sites.

The data-management firm’s customer database held names, email addresses, some IP addresses and more: a wealth of ammo for phishers.