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Google: VirusTotal customer file with secret services
July 19, 2023
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According to various media, a small but highly explosive text file is currently buzzing through the web: a list of over 5.600 VirusTotal customer names. It contains the names of employees of German and US secret services. You have registered with VirusTotal. The text file may be tiny, but the names on VirusTotal's customer list show that many public bodies, agencies and companies use the service and have data checked. After all, it's quite convenient, because there you can currently check data or web addresses online using over 70 different antivirus programs and malware scanners....

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MOVEit leak: CLOP group leaks another 30 company names
July 3, 2023
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It's like a bottomless pit: in just one week, the CLOP group has leaked another 30 company names that are said to be victims of the attack on the MOVEit vulnerability. Now there are well over 80 victims, some of whom are prominent. Much of the data is already completely online. The currently published list has now grown to 82 names. Most company names are international and not based in Germany. The group of users of the MOVEit software solution for data exchange, which was vulnerable weeks ago, is smaller in Germany than initially assumed. Nevertheless, experts speak behind closed doors of good...

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Samsung hacked: 190 gigabytes of data released
March 11, 2022
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The Korean electronics manufacturer Samsung had to admit a data hack in which 190 GB of data were first stolen and now published. There is no user data in the data, but source codes and instructions on how Samsung protects its mobile devices internally. This could mean increased attacks on Samsung devices in the coming months. Samsung recently admitted that there may have been a security breach related to certain internal company data. Samsung has now strengthened its cyber security. The stolen and now published data is said to contain some source codes that Samsung cell phones ...

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Ransomware group Conti dismantles itself in dispute 
March 7, 2022
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Ransomware group Conti dismantles itself in dispute

According to experts, Conti has already extorted 2,5 billion dollars with ransomware in recent years. Now it is clear: the group is based in Russia and has internally backed the Russian war of aggression. However, some Ukrainians or opponents of the war probably worked in the group and did not agree with it. Now chats and codes have been leaked and, according to experts, also the crown jewels - the source code. It was probably no coincidence that the data with 60.000 internal chats of the Conti group was leaked to a Ukrainian security researcher. According to the first statements, in the…

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Clubhouse data leak: 1,3 million user data leaked
21 April 2021
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The Clubhouse app and its exclusive service are increasingly being criticized in terms of data security. There is currently 1,3 million user data in a hacker forum and the app operators are not even shocked, as they themselves explain on Twitter. The portal cybernews.com currently reported that over 1,3 million records of clubhouse users have appeared in a hacker forum. And only days after data from more than a billion Facebook and LinkedIn profiles were offered for sale online. Now it's Clubhouse's turn: An SQL database with 1,3 million Clubhouse user data records was ...

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533 million Facebook records leaked 
10 April 2021
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It was recently revealed that the personal information of over half a billion (533 million) Facebook users, including phone numbers, was leaked online. Facebook itself confirmed the leak, saying it was a consequence of a security vulnerability that they fixed back in 2019. The number of users affected by the data breach in Germany is over 6 million, in Austria over 1,2 million and in Switzerland around 1,6 million. The vulnerability and theft may not be new, but Facebook users whose data was stolen in 2019 are right now because of the data leak.

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