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Chinese threat actors extract big data and sell it on the dark web

SC Magazine

Among the incidents data stolen by Chinese hackers involved a Twitter database. Researchers on Monday reported that cybercriminals are taking advantage of China’s push to become a leader in big data by extracting legitimate big data sources and selling the stolen data on the Chinese-language dark web.

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UK Cybersecurity Weekly News Roundup – 9 March 2025

Security Boulevard

With a background in IT and a Master's degree in computer science, Masrani secured an internship and later a full-time position at AWS, focusing on data and network security. agencies, and universities.

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Dell notifies customers about data breach

Malwarebytes

Dell is warning its customers about a data breach after a cybercriminal offered a 49 million-record database of information about Dell customers on a cybercrime forum. Email addresses are a unique identifier that can allow data brokers to merge and enrich their databases.

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Why Data Protection is Critical to the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

Security Boulevard

One is the relative agility of threat actors versus those tasked with defending networks and tackling cybercrime. While the threat landscape moves at a sometimes dizzying speed, there are some parts of the cyber-sphere which have been ossified for decades. Another is the apparent inefficacy of market forces at improving baseline security.

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How bitcoin payments unmasked a man who hired a Dark Web contract killer

Malwarebytes

The Polizia Postale e Delle Comunicazioni is a federal department of the Italian police force that is, among others, responsible for solving cybercrimes. The Bitcoin blockchain records every transaction ever made using the currency in its blockchain, making it a perfect source for big data investigations. The agencies.

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GUEST ESSAY – Notable events in hacking history that helped transform cybersecurity assessment

The Last Watchdog

Users received an email with a malicious attachment, and if opened, it would cause data to be deleted, computers to crash and cost a total of $10 billion in damage. The news of this fast-spreading computer virus dominated headlines, and the creator, Onel de Guzman, was arrested for committing this cybercrime. Lessons learned.

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Why Data-centric Security Holds the Key to Successful AI Deployments

Security Boulevard

But AI is nothing without data. And data is in high demand on the cybercrime underground. The post Why Data-centric Security Holds the Key to Successful AI Deployments appeared first on Security Boulevard.