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Email Provider VFEmail Suffers ‘Catastrophic’ Hack

Krebs on Security

Email provider VFEmail has suffered what the company is calling “catastrophic destruction” at the hands of an as-yet unknown intruder who trashed all of the company’s primary and backup data in the United States. Every file server is lost, every backup server is lost. Founded in 2001 and based in Milwaukee, Wisc.,

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Chinese Android phones shipped with malware-laced WhatsApp, Telegram apps

Security Affairs

Backup attacker wallet addresses are used if the C2 server is unreachable. In December 2014, researchers from Palo Alto Networks discovered that the software installed on many of Coolpad high-end Android phones includes a CoolReaper backdoor.

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Hacker deleted all data from VFEmail Servers, including backups

Security Affairs

A destructive cyberattack hit the email provider VFEmail, a hacker wiped its servers in the United States, including the backup systems. An unknown attacker has launched a destructive cyber attack against the email provider VFEmail, he erased information on its server including backups, 18 years’ worth of customer emails were lost. “We

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. The newsmaking emergence of CTB-Locker in 2014 and the CryptoWall ransomware in 2015 fully demonstrated this multi-pronged shift. Time will tell.

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Popular OGUsers hacking forum breached for the second time in a year

Security Affairs

OGUsers, one of the most popular hacking forums, was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year. The popular hacking forum OGUsers was hacked again, it is the second security breach it has suffered in a year, the news was first reported by ZDNet. SecurityAffairs – OGUsers forum, hacking).

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Steel sheet giant Hoa Sen Group hacked by Maze ransomware operators

Security Affairs

During the ordinary monitoring of Deepweb and Darkweb , researchers at Cyble came across the leak disclosure post published by the Maze ransomware operators that claim the hack of the Hoa Sen Group. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Maze Ransomware Operators).

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Backup files for Lion Air and parent airlines exposed and exchanged on forums

Security Affairs

The information was left exposed online on an unsecured Amazon bucket, the records were stored in two databases in a directory containing backup files mostly for Malindo Air and Thai Lion Air. The most recent backup, dated May 25, is named ‘PaymentGateway.’ SecurityAffairs – hacking, data leak). Pierluigi Paganini.

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