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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. for stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. .

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Staples discloses data breach exposing customer order data

Security Affairs

Giant office retail company Staples disclosed a data breach, threat actors accessed some of its customers’ order data. Staples, the office retail giant, disclosed a data breach, it notified its customers that their order data have been accessed by threat actors without authorization.

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Travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses data breach

Security Affairs

The world’s largest travel leisure company Carnival Corporation discloses a data breach that took place last year and which exposed the personal information of its customers. Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest travel leisure company, discloses a data breach that took place in 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Radisson Hotel Group has suffered a data breach

Security Affairs

The staff promptly locked out the intruders once discovered the data breach. The company notified the security breach to the holders of the Radisson Rewards cards only yesterday. ” reads the data breach notification. ” At the time of writing, there are no technical details about the data breach.

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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

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Privacy Roundup: Week 3 of Year 2025

Security Boulevard

DOJ confirms FBI operation that mass-deleted Chinese malware from thousands of US computers TechCrunch The PlugX malware, used by PRC-linked APT dubbed "Twill Typhoon" or "Mustang Panda," had infected millions of computers since at least 2014. Additionally, threat actors have been using HTML smuggling to deliver XWorm malware.

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‘Aaron Smith’ Sextortion scam campaigns hit tens of thousands of individuals

Security Affairs

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. .” Pierluigi Paganini.

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